Emergent Tools and Strategies Intrinsic in Civic Education in Attaining Quality Assurance Perspectives for Effective Citizenship in the Economic Crises in Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.70886/ujer.24124.008Keywords:
Assurance perspectives, effective citizenship, nation-buildingAbstract
Although Civic Education has become accepted as a vital education instrument for raising effective citizens who would constitute the basis for nation-building and national-development in Nigeria in the context of emergent educational challenges and the global educational crises, the teacher has to recognize pedagogical implications. As a result of the complex value dimensions, tools and strategies intrinsic in civic education curriculum, the teacher has to cope with the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary challenges in this development. This endeavor demands that the teacher must necessarily possess the vital where-with-all in order to meet the needs required in this arduous task. In particular, he has to explore and employ a number of requisite tools and strategies intrinsic in civic education for implementing programme objectives in the subject area for genuine building of the Nigerian nation in the context of a global economic crises.
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