Research Paper
Year: 2018 | Month: August | Volume: 5 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 78-91
Curricular and Pedagogical Strategies for Promoting Politics and Political Participation in Nigeria
Douglas O. Nwaokugha
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Politics and participation in it shapes, influences and determines the quality of lives of citizens and the directions that development of institutions in the State take. Citizens and regions of a state that play active part in politics influence developments in their favour in ways that others in the same state cannot achieve, no matter the pedigree of physical force and violence they mount on the state. Active participation in politics is also litmus for determining true citizenship or index for demonstrating nationalism, that is, love one has for his father land as well as identity for admitting states into comity of civilized states. Paradoxically, there is a global apathy to politics and participation in politics. Using the philosophical approach, this paper makes a case on how innovations in education via curriculum and pedagogy can become strong platforms for promoting politics and participation in it especially in Nigeria. The paper recommends that repackaging some subjects eg political education, social studies, moral education etc in the curriculum and existentially teaching them in ways that stimulate critical thinking in learners especially their show of interest in politics and participation in it in a way that learners see their exploration as instruments through which they can politically solve their individual and general problems can be right directions through which education can be reinvented for solving problems of states.
Key words: Education, curriculum, pedagogy politics, participation, leaner Nigeria.
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