ABSTRACT
The indispensable role of information and communication
technology ie the information age or the internet age cannot be overemphasized societies
that have harnessed the benefits of this social tool, are the ones considered
to be to be peaceful developed and progressive. This research work was on the Citizenship
Education in the information age: challenges and enhancement strategies: a case
study of Izzi Local Government Area. The major instrument for data collection
was the questionnaire.
The research used the Likert scale method of data
analysis. A total of 100 respondents were used. The research recommends that;
the ice should be used to teach the learner at all levels to boast teaching and
learning of responsible citizenship. The ice should be used to teach the
learner at all level to boost teaching and learning of responsible citizenship.
The inclusion of citizenship education via the ret at private and public
agencies and institution. The use of ICT in political sensitization, education
and religious education in order to create a peaceful society.
A PROJECT PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATING OF NATIONAL TEACHERS INSTITUTE KADUNA, GIRLS’
HIAH SCHOOL ABAKALIKI STUDY IN CENTRE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE
NIGERIA CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (N.C.E)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
Citizenship education is the study of the legal right in relation to
the ways in which a citizen behaves as he craves to help his community.
Citizenship education is a new subject in the Nigeria secondary school
curriculum. A cursory look at Nigerian history shows a lot socio-economic and political
reforms taking place. Yet the national civic, political and economic landscape remained
beset by the same age-old problems that have always hindered nation at
development Nigeria Nation has been (and still being characterized of ethnic chauvinism
religious dashes, social and civil crises. These bedeviling problems call for
urgent attention. Critics and analyst have conterminously advocated for civic education
at all levels of education particularly at secondary level-federal government
has hearkened and headed to such clarion call by introducing civic education in
school’s curriculum.
Citizenship
education is a dynamic subject. As a subject and also art, it is located and
practiced in the social environment where change is constant. In the
information age, the learner is prone to myriads of data with some having both
positive and negative.
This
study is on citizenship education in the information age: challenges and
enhancement strategies – A case study of Izzi Local Government Area.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Citizenship
education in the information age has it challenges and setbacks. The study
intends to investigate how the information and communication technology (ICT)
can help to boost or mar the social responsibilities of individuals in the
school and society at large
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study which was on citizenship education in the
information age challenges and enhancement strategies a case study of Izzi
Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
The
purpose of this study include;
a. To
understand the role of ICT in citizenship education.
b. To highlight the challenges of ICT in citizenship education.
c. To explore enhancement strategies for citizenship education
in relation to ICT
1.4 Research Questions
The following research questions guided the research
a. What
is the impact of the information age (ICT) on citizenship
education
b. What are the benefits of the information age (ICT) on
citizenship education
c. What enhancement strategies can boost citizenship education
in our schools and communities.
d. What are the major challenges to citizenship education in
the information age
1.5 Significance of the Study
This research work which is on citizenship education in the information
age challenges and enhancement strategies – a case study of Izzi Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State, has a lot of significance.
a. It would help the government to understand the need to
encourage the citizens to embrace the ICT age.
b. It would help the individual to be current with present day
realities and be able to make references and inferences.
c. It would help educational planners and policy implements to
explore ways of making computer studies a permanent feature in our schools
d. It would also encourage private individuals and agencies to
partner with schools and governments on how to boost computer literacy as it
relates to citizenship education
1.6 Scope of the Study
This study which was on citizenship education in the information age:
challenges and enhancement strategies was supposed to cover the nook and crannies
of Ebonyi State but was limited to Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
CHAPTER TWO
REBIEW OF
RELATED LITERATURE
2.0 This
chapter reviews the related literatures on citizenship education in the
information age: challenges and enhancement strategies; under the following
subheadings;
- What
is citizenship education?
- Citizenship
education and the information age
- Challenges
to citizenship education in the information age
- Enhancement
strategies
- Conclusions
and summary
2.1 What is Citizenship
Education?
Education in the context of citizens and civic education. Education is the
process of transmitting what is valuable in the sense of what is desired to
relevant public who are the beneficiaries of that purpose. The centre of
gravity in the educative enterprise then is organized around socialization of
participants into cultures of knowledge considered as foundation for the
desirable, the worth while and the valuable.
Subsequently,
dispute arises as to the content of these categories. Whatever they are,
whatever their content they constitute the purpose of education an adequate
discussion of education with a view to define or even describe it, must set on
the basis of this type of thing – the purpose. The purpose of education seems
then, in an organic way to be linked to its content and meaning and even
method. But inspite of the purpose contrived and the methods adopted, the
educative process is a perennial one spanning its perception as a life – long
affair.
Julius
Nyerere (1985) maintained that the educative process within any social continuum
serves to reinforce the social ethics of the social order from which it
necessarily springs. It is within this context that the educational system produces
the man that is adequate to its needs and desired by it. Thus any social order adopts
an educational system that conduces to its survival and whose principles are
consistent with the under – girding values for its growths and development. Citizenship
education is the preparation of individuals to participate as active and
responsible citizens in a democracy civic education is key to grow a positive and
dynamic citizenship participation space in the polity. Criticality of
citizenship education also lies in the equally important role of effective
citizenship recruitment it is the most powerful instrument available to the
state to engage and Implement programs of value reorientation in the social
carder. The following statement by Thomas Jefferson expresses the rational and
summaries the province of civic education.
“I
know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of society but the
people themselves and if you think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome dedication; the remedy is not to take it from
them but to inform their discretion.
Citizenship
education is a social phenomenon that is historically specific. This is so in
respect to its essential contends. Its total burden includes, but is not
exhausted by those conditions and processes that produce outcomes in the
internalization perpetuation and propagation of citizenship consciousness,
moral, social and political obligations and role expectations in the society.
It is also the externalization and deployment of this type of consciousness to
enable full participation in the dynamic of citizenship in the state. From the
east stages in the historical development of the society specifically, that is,
with the emergence of the state. The education of the citizen into socially
correct roles has been an item of high ranking challenge and priority. In a
state characterized by social inequality there exist different conceptions of
what are correct citizenship roles for the different social classes within each
state. This in unrequited differential items of curricular content Plato’s view
in this regard is guardian class, the rulers, who hold the highest from of
citizenship in the state citizenship them into role of leaders. The goals of
citizenship education were specific and targeted on their historical roles
Lower echelons of citizenship were available and occupied by merchant teacher
and consent; etc citizenship as a term is a word which defines the legal right
as it belongs to a particular country. It also means the state of being a
citizen and accepting ways in which a citizen behaves, for instance, being
responsible and helping his community. Citizenship Education therefore is the
study of the legal right in relation to the ways in which a citizen behaves as
he craves to help his community. Citizenship education is that which enables
people to make their own decision and to take responsibility for their own
lives and their communities. Citizenship Education is move than a subject
because it is an important opportunity especially for students, to explode
their social and political vices If it is taught well and tailored well to
local needs, its skills and values will enhance democratize life for all
citizens, both rights and responsibly, beginning
in schools and radiating out citizenship Education is targeted at young people
so that they can leave school with an understanding of political, legal and
economic functions of adult society and with the social and moral awareness to
thrive in it citizenship education is essential for preparing young people for
our shared democratic life.
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