PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS IN RE-BRANDING NIGERIA THROUGH VALUES EDUCATION (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
ABSTRACT
Looking at re-branding project of Nigeria government and the success recorded, this attempted to establish the relevance of value education to the re-brand Nigeria project and the perspective of social studies student of Federal College of Education, Osiele. The challenge of bad image of Nigerian abroad is seen to be attitudinal in character and in form. This project identified Nigerian as one blessed entity full of excellent potentials both material and human but with a weak values system, the leadership has no been able to harness the resources to stimulate good image for the country. The absence of core public values such as respect for elders and constituted authorities, honesty, accountability, cooperation, industry alongside discipline, self-confidence and moral courage have gone a long way to fertilize social vices such as corruption, greed, dishonesty, mediocrity, intolerance, and many others. All those have change the Nigeria values system, a situation which has led to a strong moral problem. The project strongly advocated for the strengthening of values education as a possible ways of remodel behavioural and ethical reorientation.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
It has been accepted all over the world, that education is the major instrument for individual and societal development. It is an indisputable fact that education can be use to affect changes in the society. Social anomalies and bad image can be corrected by values education in schools.
Re-branding Nigeria has to do with changing perception, it is about de-stigmatization of Nigerians or what is called “image substitution”.
The recent effort to re-brand Nigeria, by seeking to change the way other people see Nigeria or what they think about Nigeria is laudable. Nigeria is so much in need of re-branding. In today’s world of global media, image and perception is everything.
However, what is clear is that a country does not brand or re—brand by advertising campaign alone. To change the way other see us, we must first change the way we see ourselves and we must change the stories we tell the world about our country. To effective re-branding Nigeria our societal core values must be brought back.
Re-branding is not about telling it but showing it. To re-brand Nigeria, Nigeria citizens must be educated in mind and moral. Education for character through values education which teaches respects and responsibility is a vital means through which Nigeria can be effectively re-branded it citizens.
