Abstract: This study examined the appropriateness of government in the junior secondary schools. The sample include hundred and fifty-one teachers selected from 50 public secondary schools in three major towns of Osun state, namely: Osogbo, Ilesha, Ile-Ife. Out of the 151 teachers, only 75 were teaching both social study and government, while the remaining 76 were teaching one of the two subjects and they were not used in the analysis to avoid invalid view or opinion.
Researchers recognised seventeen (17) government concept or theme in the social studies curriculum. These were used to design on whether the questions were adequate as background for offering government. A purposive sample of all teachers of social studies and government in Osogbo, Ilesha and Ile-Ife was used. The questionnaire was meant for government and social studies teachers at SSS and JSS respectively. T-test was used for analysis of the data collected; and t value arrived at was used for interpretation of the result for proper interpretation.
Findings of the research revealed that there was significant difference among the view of all respondents on the adequacy of the government concept contained in JSS social studies curriculum as a background for offering government at SSS level.
The following recommendations were made; first that Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERDC) should re structure each of the component disciplines including government that consist of elements that must be mastered for better understanding for succeeding subjects at Senior Secondary School. Secondary, social studies curriculum concepts should cover all subjects that have to do with aims and aspiration of the discipline. It also recommended that a modified form of multidisciplinary integration approach should be used in organizing social studies curriculum for Junior Secondary School.
Keywords: Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERDC), secondary schools.
Title: Appropriateness of Government Concept in the Social Studies Curriculum as Prerequisite for Offering Government in Secondary School
Author: ADELOWO Moses Adeleke
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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