PROBLEMS MILITATING AGAINST EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (CASE STUDY OF ENUGU EDUCATION ZONE)
1.1 Background of the Study
There are developments in the Nigerian education sector, which indicates some level of computer application in the secondary schools.
The Federal government of Nigeria in the National Policy on Education recognizes the prominent role of computer in the modern world and has integrated it into education in Nigerians to actualize the goal.
The policy was that government will provide basic infrastructure and training at the primary schools. At the junior secondary schools, computer education has been made a pre-vocational elective even at the senior secondary level.
The Federal Ministry of Education has launched an ICT-driven project known as school Net (www.Snng. Org) Fed. Republic of Nigeria, 2006) which was intended to equip all Schools in Nigeria with computer and communication technologies.
But the big questions are, “how can these policies and initiative of government be implemented, who are those that will take the pains to bend low to learn, and those that are capable to handle the course the way it will interest student”. Which have being the problem in the education sector, and topic of this study. But in this study too, we are going to see those problems one after the other and how they can be solved. So that government policies and initiatives may have impact on teacher and students may advance.
A case in point is in Enugu state, being one of the old eastern developing cities, being equipped with the modern art facilities, good governance and education system working perfectly, was being chosen to be the study area.