PERCEPTION OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ON CIVIC EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS IN KADUNA STATE NIGERIA
PERCEPTION OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ON CIVIC EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS IN KADUNA STATE NIGERIA
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2021-04
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SHEHU, Ahmad
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The study investigated the Perception of Senior Secondary School students on Civic Education as a tool
for Promoting Entrepreneurship Skills in Kaduna State Nigeria. The study was guided by six (6)
objectives, research questions and corresponding hypotheses. The work adopts descriptive research design
it has total population of six thousand one hundred and one (6,101) students out of which 365 was selected
as the sample for the study. Questionnaire titled Civic Education as Tool for promoting entrepreneurship
skills Questionnaire (CETPES) was used for data collection with. A mean scores of 50.83, 60.32 and 61.1
were established. Simple percentage was used to compute the bio-data of the respondent, descriptive
statistics of means and standard deviations were used to answer the research questions, while the
hypotheses were analyzed using t-test statistics. Thus, the study conclude that Entrepreneurship skills
provide students with the training and support to establish career in small and medium size business
acquisition of basic skills for productive and profitable ventures; it also enhance economic growth for the
individual‟s citizens and the Nation. Civic Education raise morally upright and well adjusted individuals
who can think independently and rationally, respect the views and feeling of others and appreciate the
dignity of labour; inculcate in students their duties and obligations to the society; and also promote
acquisition of appropriate skills and development of mental, physical and social abilities and competencies
as equipment for the individual to live in and contribute to the development of the society. It also
recommends that, Graduates that read Civic Education should be given soft loans to establish small
scale industries for economic growth and National Development; Government should recruit
more qualified Civic Education Teachers for the inculcation of civic duties of the citizens;
Teachers of Citizenship Education should be sponsored to attend Workshops, Seminars and
Conferences to enhance their professional competency in the implementation of Civic Education
properly.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF
MASTER DEGREE IN EDUCATION SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
Keywords
PERCEPTION,, SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, CIVIC EDUCATION,, TOOL,, PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS,, KADUNA STATE NIGERIA