STUDENT’S PERCEPTION ON THE ROLE OF CIVIC EDUCATION IN THE ENHANCEMENT OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Societies have long had an interest in the ways in which their young are prepared for citizenship and on how they learn to take part in civic life. Today, that interest might better be described as a concern in fact as a growing concern, particularly in democratic societies. There is evidence aplenty that no country including Nigeria, has achieved the level of understanding and acceptance of the rights and responsibilities among the totality of its citizens that is required for the maintenance and improvement of any constitutional democracy.
Nigerians should realize that civic education is essential to sustain our constitutional democracy.The habits of the mind as well as habit of the heart, the dispositions that inform the democratic ethos, are not inherited. As Alexis de Toqueville pointed out, each new generation is a new people that must acquire the knowledge, learn the skills, and develop the dispositions or traits of private and public character that undergird a constitutional democracy. Those dispositions must be fostered and nurtured by word and study and by power of example. Democracy is not a “machine that would go of itself”, but must be consciously reproduced, one generation after another.
Civic Education therefore should be a prime concern. There is more important task than the development of an informed, effective and responsible citizenry. Democracies are sustained by citizens who have the requisite knowledge, skills and dispositions. It is imperative; therefore educators, policy makers and members of the civil society make the case and ask for the support of civic education from all segments of society and from the widest range of institutions and governments.
It is relatively easy for a society to produce technically competent people. But the kind of society Nigerians want to live in and the kind of government they want to have requires effort and commitmenton the part of its citizens. Nigerians wants a society and a government in which:
- human rights are respected
- the individual’s dignity and worth are acknowledged
- the rule of law is observed
- people willingly fulfill their responsibilities and
- the common good is the concern of all
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STUDENT’S PERCEPTION ON THE ROLE OF CIVIC EDUCATION IN THE ENHANCEMENT OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
