PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EBONYI STATE

Abstract

This study titled ‘Problems and Challenges of Teaching Political Science in Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State’ was carried out in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. The design of the study was descriptive survey research design, while the population comprised of all political science teachers in the public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. The study made use of simple
random sampling techniques to select 130 Political Science Teachers out of 237 of them. The study has four research questions and two hypotheses. The research questions were used to develop 34 items questionnaire which was subjected to cronbach Alpha reliability test and it showed a high reliability coefficient of 9.5. The items on questionnaire were used to extract information from the respondents. The data collected was analyzed using weighed mean,
standard deviation and t-test statistics. Results of the analysis showed that; teachers and students’ background, nature of political science and political science curriculum contribute to the problems and challenges of teaching of the political science in the state and that the opinion of the respondents are not gender bias. The study recommended among others things improve
funding of secondary schools, employment of qualified political science teachers into the system and review of the current political science curriculum to meet up with current trend.