Integrating Peace Education into the Curriculum of Nigerian Teacher Education Programme to promote Culture of Peace
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2021-12
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Faculty of Education, Cumhuriyet University, Turkey
Abstract
The study adopted a descriptive form of survey design to investigate the strategies employed in integrating peace education contents into the curriculum of the Nigerian Teacher Education programme at both faculty of education in the
University and College of education to produce teachers. Pre service teacher educators in Nigeria Colleges of Education
constituted the population while the target population was the Pre-service teacher educators in North-Central Nigeria. Three Federal and three state colleges were sampled for the study using stratified sampling techniques out of a total of six Federal and six State colleges of education in the geopolitical region. A total population of 333 pre-service teacher educators was sampled using simple random sampling techniques out of 2,411 respondents. A researcher's designed questionnaire with content validity of 0.74 through the use of percentage-difference coefficient of correlation as well as a reliability index of 0.71 through the use of test-retest method was used to elicit the needed data from the respondents. The mean score was the statistical tool used to answer the research questions raised in the study. Findings from the study revealed that the integrative approach was considered the best option for mainstreaming the contents of peace education. More so, the study recommended teaching methods and strategies such as inquiry; expository, activity, and discussion with the different strategies to be used to impart peace education to pre-service teachers.
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Peace, culture, teacher, education, pre-service, curriculum
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Muhinat Bolanle, B. (2021). Integrating peace education into the curriculum of Nigerian teacher education programme to promote culture of peace. Cumhuriyet International Journal of Education, 10(4), 1356-1368. http://dx.doi.org/10.30703/cije.785573