FOSTERING CIVIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Osayande Endurance Okuonghae, Prof Bridget Olirejere Omatseye

Abstract


The civic duties and responsibilities of a community or nation guide the ways of a people. They are the offshoots of the norms and values of a group of people and as such the need to inculcate these civic duties and responsibilities into the young learners becomes imperative if a society or nation must experience societal development. The National Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC,2007) revisited and identified Civic Education as one of the primary school subjects amongst others that can help foster the theme of civic duties and responsibilities in the Nigerian primary school children towards making them become a responsible and law abiding citizens. However, over the years this has been pedagogically carried out to a large extent theoretically and lightly practically. It is hoped that the theme of civic duties and responsibility is imbibed by the young learners through experiential methods thereby making the school a microcosm of the larger society where the primary school children can come to know and understand their civic roles in the society.

Keywords


Foster, Civic duties, Responsibilities, Primary School Children, Nigeria.

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