Raising awareness of climate change issues in Nigeria through education for policy and practice
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2020-06-01
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Sultan Idris University, Malaysia
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The objective of this study is to raise awareness through education in
mitigating of climate issues. Also, to finding out relationship between
resilience teaching and learning and mitigating of climate change issues in
North-central zone, Nigeria. The study investigated managing education
toward mitigating climate change in North-central zone, Nigeria. Stratified
random sampling technique was used to select 375 head teachers and 384
teachers in public primary schools in North-central zone, Nigeria.
Questionnaire title “Managing Education Toward Mitigating Climate
Change Issues Questionnaire (METACCIQ) was used to collect data for
the study and analysed using descriptive statistics and t-test analysis. The
results shown that there is no significant difference between raising
awareness, resilience teaching and learning and mitigating of climate
change issues in Nigeria. It was recommended that Government, school
administrators, teachers and stakeholders should embark on raising
awareness on climate change issues to encourage changes in young
people attitudes and behavior. Also, resilience teaching and learning
should be made interesting in order to increases climate literacy among
learners through education.
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Awareness,, climate education,, resilience teaching and learning, Nigeria