Problem and Prospect of Teaching History in Secondary Schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria.
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2019
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Department of Health Promotion Education and Environmental Health Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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This study examined problems and prospects of teaching History in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria. In this study, differences in the perceived problems and prospects of teaching History on the basis of gender, teaching qualifications and experience were also examined. This study made use of descriptive survey method. The population for this study were all senior secondary school History teachers in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State. 40 teachers were sampled for the study using simple random sampling technique. A researcher’ self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection while the data collected for this study were analysed using the percentage and mean rating to answer the research questions while independent t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to test the hypotheses postulated for this study at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from this study revealed that the problems of teaching history are teachers’ inadequate knowledge of the subject matter, inadequate instructional materials, excessive history curriculum content, inadequate time allotted for teaching activities; poor implementation of history curriculum. The prospects of History have been affirmed to help the student to gain deeper understanding of how the world around them came to be. It was also found that there is no discrepancy in the perceived problems and prospects of teaching history on the basis of teachers’ gender, qualifications and teaching experience. It was therefore recommended among others that, there is need for Government to make available and adequate up-to-date reading materials for the teachers and students so as to facilitate the teaching and learning of history in Senior Secondary Schools; there is need to provide teacher-support instructional materials that are totally inclusive of what is required to present and support the lesson.
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Teaching, Problems, Prospects, History