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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: This paper examined civic education in Nigeria’s one hundred years of existence. The paper pointed out that civic education equipped the citizens with democratic skills that strengthen the civil society. The paper gave the historical account of civic education in Nigeria and emphasized that training for civic responsibility was one of the major goals of the traditional education in Nigeria. Before the introduction of Western education in Nigeria, the existing traditional education was concerned with training the children for social responsibility and political participation. The paper posited that Western education had not given enough attention to character and civic training in Nigeria. Some of the problems confronting civic education in Nigeria include: disorganized and duplicated Civic Education curriculum; unstable civic education programme; lack of adequate human resources for civic education; recitation and rote learning of civic values and skills and non-implementation of Social Studies at the Senior Secondary School level. The paper concluded that if Civic Education was well taught in Nigerian schools it would help in engineering sustainable value-reorientation which could break the vicious circle of socio-political and economic problems in the country. |
| Keywords: civic education, civic responsibility, traditional education, civics, social studies |
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