A COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONAL AWARENESS OF THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE
A COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONAL AWARENESS OF THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE
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1995-06
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SAIDU, UMAR
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Abstract
There was need to find out the level of performance of
social studies in constitutional matters, in the area of the
extent of coverage of the national constitution in the social
studies curriculum and the understanding of the students.
This was answer to the call of the former President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida for
the establishment of another school subject to be called
citizenship education in the school system. The new subject
has objectives very close to those of social studies and the
researcher believes could be incorporated into the social
studies curriculum.
The study reviewed both the social studies curriculum
and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to see
the extent the former covers the latter. It was, however,
discovered that the coverage was not much. Considered
studies by Gross (1977), Henning (1973) and Naylor (1977)
have all agreed on the importance of constitutional and law
focused studios in the secondary schools.
The studies used the Katsina State Social Studies
students of Junior Secondary Three, both in the rural
boarding and urban boarding school settings. The study used
a sample size of 637 students, 412 urban and 225 rural students.
A validated teacher-made check-list test was the sole
instrument of the study. Five null hypotheses were tested
using t-test and chi-square statistical techniques. It was found
that the general awareness level of Nigerian constitutional
matters by junior secondary school students was encouraging.
All the five postulated null hypotheses were rejected as the
mean score difference was found to be statistically
significant at the probability level of P .05, But the junior
secondary school social studies students at the urban
boarding schools performed better than the rural
boarding schools.
The study concluded with a call for an immediate review
of the Social Studies Curriculum at the Junior Secondary
School level and serious attention is paid to the rural schools
to equalize then with the urban schools to give the students
equal educational opportunity.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED BY M.ED. CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION (SOCIAL STUDIES)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
J U N E , 1 9 9 5
Keywords
A COMPARISON, CONSTITUTIONAL,, AWARENESS,, JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL,, SOCIAL STUDIES,, STUDENTS,, KATSINA STATE