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Title: | Choice and perception of population education concepts: focus on Nigerian preservice social studies teachers |
Author: | Ogunyemi, Biodun |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research (ISSN 1013-3445) |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 242-258 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | sex education education social sciences Teaching population education |
Abstract: | The move to introduce population education into the Nigerian school system essentially stemmed from the phenomenal growth rate of the country's population and the need to discourage attitudes favouring rapid population growth. The core themes of the Nigerian Population Education Programme (NPEP) are five: family size and family welfare, delayed marriage, responsible parenthood, population change and resource development, and population-related practice. This study of the attitudes of Nigerian preservice social studies teachers is based on the assumption that the emotional response, factual knowledge and behavioural tendencies of future social studies teachers in relation to population issues have far-reaching implications for the effective implementation of Nigeria's population education programme. A random sample was drawn of 110 full-time National Certificate in Education (NCE) Social Studies students in two colleges of education. The main instrument for the study was a questionnaire, which was completed by 95 students (48 males, 47 females). The finding that the majority of the respondents had a positive attitude to population issues, taken at face value, tends to blur the fact that males and females perceived such issues differently, and that their knowledge and system of beliefs about some aspects of the core messages of population education are still inadequate to promote the programme effectively. Bibliogr., sum. |