Social Studies Education as a Tool for Checks and Balances to Political Irregularities and Franchise in Nigeria
Keywords:
Social Studies, checks and balances, political irregularities and franchiseAbstract
This study examines social studies education as a tool for checks and balances to political irregularities and franchise in Nigeria. The aim is to explore how social studies education can be used in correcting political irregularities in exercising franchise in Nigeria. Social studies education is concerned with citizenship education which entails a complex process of inculcating societal norms, morals, knowledge, skills and values that serve as checks and balances to political irregularities and franchise. Based on this premise, social studies education emphasizes the acquisition of the relevant skills, knowledge, values and beliefs and other capabilities that are significant in conformity with the checking of political irregularities as been observed in exercising political franchise. Social studies education is transformative in contents, objectives and accommodates contemporary issues, social issues, environmental issues, and most especially political matters for the purposes of re-organizing political structure in society.
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