INCULCATING THE SPIRIT OF NATION BUILDING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF CIVIC EDUCATION

Abstract

This paper examines how the spirit of nation building can be inculcated in the Nigeria students with the aid of Civic Education. Civic Education is a school discipline that is primarily designed in content and function to produce good, useful, reliable, informed, active and responsible citizens. This paper x-rayed the essence of Civic Education for achieving sustainable nation building, the goals of Civic Education, component ofCivic Education, dimensions of Civic Education and the roles of Civic Education in promoting responsible citizens will build a viable, peaceful, and progressive society with effective teaching and learning of topics in Civic Education Civic Education for effective citizenship. This paper therefore recommends that Civic Education should be handled by the social studies teachers who have the integrative knowledge of the environments and Civic Education is just part of the Social Studies curriculum. Teachers must be ready to improve teaching and learning by adopting child-centered methods as against the conventional methods that teachers mostly relied on. Government should find means of making the vision of Civic Education be available to the society at large and Nigeria citizens should always be ready to perform their responsibilities as expected of them.