Educational Development in Africa: Prospects and Challenges of Teaching/Learning History in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Oluwaseun O. Afolabi
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
African History ◽  
Senior Secondary School ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Senior Secondary

<p><em>The paper discusses the challenges facing history teaching in Nigeria. The scope of the study is limited to private/public schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study starts by tracing the problem from the advent of missionaries to Nigeria in which their purpose of establishing mission schools was not to teach African history but to evangelize and to produce middlemen who will act as junior officers. The findings show that history as a subject was in the curriculum of both junior and senior secondary school. However, it was removed from junior secondary school curriculum and remained only in senior secondary school curriculum. Though only few senior secondary schools in Oyo State teach history subject due to lack of adequate knowledge by students in learning African history. Also, due to the reviewed policy, history teachers and textbooks are inadequate. Thus, in this present dispensation in Nigeria, African history education is facing challenges in terms of teaching and learning, apparently on the verge of extinction. The paper concludes by stating the methods of teaching history, prospects and challenges attached to it.</em></p>

Students’ Perception of Difficulty Levels of Senior Secondary School Civic Education Curriculum Content in Osun State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Okunloye Rotimi William ◽  
Issa Nasiru Olokooba ◽  
Abdulsalam Alliyu Ayodele
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Senior Secondary School ◽  
Intended Curriculum ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
Content Coverage ◽  
Senior Secondary Schools ◽  
Senior Secondary

The learnability of school curriculum has been attributed to students’ perception of different school subjects which also determines the level of students’ performance and ultimately the achievability of the intended curriculum objectives. Studies had been conducted in other subject areas. However, studies of that type are not common in Civic Education which is relatively new in the Nigerian Secondary School curriculum. This paper examines students’ perception of difficulty levels of the Nigerian Senior School Civic Education Syllabus (SSSCES) and the factors associated with their perception. The population for the study comprised all Civic Education students in Osun State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and a researcher-designed instrument titled Civic Education Syllabus Perception Questionnaire (CESPQ) was administered to 487 students drawn from 25 Senior Secondary Schools in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. The three research questions raised for the study were answered using percentage, mean and standard deviation statistics. The results showed that the Senior Secondary School Civic Education Syllabus (SSSCES) topics are perceived by students to be of varying difficulty levels ranging from difficult to very simple with an absolute of them being predominantly very simple. The observed difficulty levels were associated with inadequate textbooks, teachers’ presentation of lessons and wide content coverage. These imply that Civic Education is learnable and curriculum objectives are achievable. Based on these findings, it was recommended that teachers should enhance the learnability of the few perceived difficult topics by students through the use of predominantly learner-centred strategies and more learner-friendly strategies to teach the subject.

scholarly journals Constraints in English Language Teaching and Learning in Senior Secondary Schools: Strategies for Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
Steven Sylvester Bockarie ◽  
Michael Sahr Bengu
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Senior Secondary School ◽  
Senior Secondary Schools ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

The study entitled 'Constraints in English Language Teaching and Learning in Senior Secondary Schools: Strategies for Implementation' seeks to unravel the myriad of problems in teaching and learning the English Language in senior secondary schools and offers strategies that can be implemented to salvage the situation. Learning to teach is more than simply knowing the results of research and theory; it always involves learning the ‘craft’ of classroom exposition, explanation, organization, and guidance. The desired outcome of the language learning process is the ability to communicate competently, not the ability to the ability to use the language exactly as a native speaker does. To guide the study, three research questions were posed. The questions examined the following three variables: (1) the constraints in teaching English; (2) the constraints in learning English; and (3) strategies for implementation in senior secondary schools. The research will be carried out in two senior secondary schools in Kenema City, Eastern Sierra Leone (Government Senior Secondary School and Methodist Senior Secondary School). The study revealed that: the lack of adequate teaching and learning materials, poor pedagogical and academic subject matter competency, and the negative attitude of students towards the English Language, account for the major constraints in the teaching and learning of the subject.

Benefits of Integration of Computer and Information Technology into Nigerian Secondary School Curriculum.

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Lawrence C.O.
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Wrong Side ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
Human Skills

The benefits of integration of Computer and Information Technology into Nigerian secondary school curriculum were identified and discussed. Already, Nigeria is on the wrong side of the international digital and global world of computer technology, as it has not made significant effort to integrate Computer and Information Technology into secondary school curriculum especially State and private owned secondary schools. A great deal of instructional and administrative work in secondary schools in Nigeria is still carried out manually. This paper, therefore, examines the major obstacles militating against the teaching and learning of information Technology, and also the use of computer technology in secondary education in Nigeria. It further identifies the high cost of computer hardware and software resources; weak infrastructure; lack of human skills and knowledge in Computer and Information Technology, as the major stumbling block to the adoption of Information and Communication Technology in secondary school education system in Nigeria. The study recommends that efforts should be made by government to post skillful teachers with knowledge of Computer and Information Technology to teach in the secondary schools so as to impact computer skills to the students, and also stabilize electricity supply in Nigeria for effective teaching and learning process of Computer and Information Technology.

The evaluation in the physical sciences in the Moroccan secondary school curriculum: the case of experimental skills

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
El Hassan Touli ◽  
Mohammed Talbi ◽  
Mohamed Radid
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Adequate Education ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Experimental Skills

Evaluation is a task of great importance in the service of the teaching/learning that allows us to check whether or not specific educational objectives have been achieved.Currently, with the emergence of active pedagogies, according to several points of view, new challenges have emerged other than simply assessment.   As far as Moroccan education is concerned, assessment focuses on the level of mastery of specific skills on the part of learners at the beginning, during and at the end of the year, as well as at the end of each period of learning.Our present research is interested in the taking into consideration the evaluation of experimental skills in the physical sciences as part of the Moroccan educational system.To be able to check the hypotheses that have been advanced in our study, we developed a questionnaire that was distributed to a sample of physics-chemistry secondary school teachers in Morocco.The majority of the teachers in our sample have reported several constraints, including a lack of material necessary to plan and implement the work practices needed to provide an adequate education in terms of experimental activity in the field of physics-chemistry.   Keywords: Evaluation, teaching–learning, skills, physics and chemistry

scholarly journals Effect of Brainstorming strategy on Senior Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement in Chemistry in Rivers State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Samuel O. Wagbara
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Team Work ◽  
School Students ◽  
Senior Secondary School ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Senior Secondary

The paradigm shift of modern teaching and learning of Chemistry tilt towards activity oriented strategies that focus on creative thinking and team work to build new ideas. Hence, the main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of brainstorming strategy on senior secondary school student’s academic achievement in chemistry. This study adopted quasi experimental research design.  A sample of (200) SS2 Chemistry students who were obtained by simple random sampling by balloting participated in the study. The data collected were analyzed by using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used for testing the hypotheses at 05 level of significance.  The study found that brainstorming had significant effect P < .05 on students mean achievement score in Chemistry.  There was significant difference between the mean achievement scores of students exposed to brainstorming strategy in Chemistry P < .05 and those of lecture method in favor of brainstorming strategy.  Gender does not have significant effect P > .05 on students taught Chemistry by use of brainstorming strategy. Hence, it becomes necessary for chemistry teachers to use brainstorming strategy in order to boost the academic achievement of students in chemistry.

scholarly journals TEACHERS’ USE OF INFORMAL FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CLASSROOMS IN SWAZILAND

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 348-360
Author(s):  
Mzenzi S. Masuku ◽  
O I. Oloyede ◽  
Victoria L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Senior Secondary School ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
Remedial Work ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

The social-economic role of education as a major driver of human development calls for quality education that is rooted on effective teaching and learning. While Swaziland aspires to have products of her secondary education system efficiently joining tertiary training or the workplace, the SGCSE performance trend in Physical Science currently features below expectation. This study explored how teachers in Swaziland used informal formative assessment in their senior secondary school Chemistry lessons. Three purposively sampled lessons from Form 4 and Form 5 were observed. Data were collected through field notes and analysed using inductive content analysis. Findings showed that teachers used informal formative assessment by explaining misunderstood content in fresh ways, giving learners remedial work, initiating hand-clapping, repeating or adjusting initial and probing questions. All in all, teachers used informal formative assessment in line with standard practices though they often resorted to telling learners answers to seemingly demanding questions.

scholarly journals Important Developments of Leisure Education in American Public Schools: What Can We Learn From Them?

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Kian Lam TOH
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Leisure Education ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
Education In Hong Kong

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.The notion of leisure education can trace its roots far back to Ancient Greece. The aim of leisure education is not to increase the number of subjects offered by the schools, but rather to infuse the values of leisure into the existing subjects. The objective is to guide the students in making good use of their leisure, which in fact is one of the secondary school curriculum aims. Besides presenting some of the important developments of leisure education in American public schools, this paper also highlights some of the reasons why leisure education fails in the United States. These problems are relevant to us especially if we want to make leisure education in Hong Kong a reality one day.休閒教育的起源可追溯到古希臘時代。休閒教育的目的不在於增加學校的科目，而是將休閒的價値溶入目前學校既有的科目中，引導學生善用閒暇時間，這也正是香港的教育目標之一。美國學校的休閒教育可說是失敗的。本文首先提出休閒教育在美國的一些重要發展，然後舉出一些造成他們失敗的可能原因，若是有朝一日休閒教育在本港萌芽，那麼我們就不得不重視這些我們也可能面對的問題。

scholarly journals The Implementation of Integrated Technology in Motivating Students of an Accelerated Program at Senior Secondary School Makassar, Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan Rahim ◽  
Kisman Salija ◽  
Sukardi Weda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Senior Secondary School ◽  
Accelerated Program ◽  
Integrated Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
E Mail

The objectives of this research are to find out: (1) the description of the implementation of integrated technology in an accelerated program in motivating the students in Makassar senior secondary school, (2) the description of how the teacher maintains the motivation of students through integrated technology at accelerated program in Makassar senior secondary school, and (3) the description of the students’ responses to the implementation of integrated technology in an accelerated program in motivating the students in Makassar senior secondary school.This research is qualitative research which done inSMAN17 Makassar. The participants of this research were a teacher and students of an accelerated program. To collect the data, the researcher used recording and interview with the teachers and students. In analysing the data, the researcher used qualitative method. The findings of this research described (1) The implementation of integrated technology at the accelerated program in SMAN 17 Makassar can be described under several categories: kinds of technology used by the teacher, kinds of application or program used by the teacher, the function of technology, the teacher’s ways to teach by using technology, the teacher’s experience in achieving the technology used, the technology facilitation provided in technology integration, the teacher’s ways in teaching English skills, the use of social media in teaching and learning, the reason of choosing E-Mail, the teacher’s ways to minimize unexpected problem along the use of technology, and the technology influence toward student’s motivation (2) The teacher’s ways to maintain the students’ motivation by using integrated technology can be described two some categories: the reasons underlying the importance of technology and the teacher’s ways of indicating and maintaining the students’ motivation. (3) Students’ responses toward the integrated technology could be stated in positive way, they liked it, they were interested, and they preferred studying by using technology. Keyword: Integrated Technology and Students’ Motivation

Teaching Arabic As A Second Language: An Evaluation Of Key Word Method Effectiveness

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamadul Bakir Hj. Yaakub
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Function ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Secondary School Curriculum ◽  
The Brain

Kajian ini bertujuan menguji keberkesanan dan kesesuaian “kaedah kata kunci” untuk diguna pakai dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran bahasa Arab sebagai bahasa asing dalam sukatan pelajaran sekolah menengah di Malaysia. Kaedah kata kunci merupakan satu percubaan dalam mengatasi cabaran pembelajaran bahasa Arab, dan juga mengemukakan satu pilihan terbuka bagi mengatasi kerumitan yang dihadapi oleh para pelajar, dengan harapan ia menjadikan mereka lebih bermotivasi mengejar kejayaan dan berinovasi dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Persoalan utama di sini adalah sama ada sesuatu kaedah pembelajaran yang diguna pakai adalah sejajar dengan kepentingan pembelajaran, seperti membangunkan daya ingatan sebagai strategi, yang berfungsi sebagai pemangkin keupayaan otak untuk bergerak aktif mendorong pelajar menuju kejayaan. Untuk tujuan itu, satu uji kaji terkawal telah dijalankan bagi menilai keberkesanan strategi pembelajaran mengingat terhadap pelajar bahasa Arab. Kata kunci: Kaedah kata kunci, pembelajaran bahasa Arab, cabaran dan kerumitan, strategi pembelajaran, penilaian uji kaji This study aims to examine the effectiveness and the practicality of the “key word method” in teaching and learning Arabic as a foreign language within the Malaysian secondary school curriculum. The method is designed to overcome the challenges of learning Arabic, so that they become motivated in achieving their learning target and become innovative in their learning activities. The issue here is whether a learning method is really on par with its learning function, such as developing a memory learning strategy by understanding the working of the brain. The study conducted an experiment to see whether the memory learning strategy would have an impact on learners in a controlled enviroment. Key words: Key word method, learning Arabic, challenges and difficulties, learning strategy, experimental evaluation

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