Unemployment and Poverty Rise in Nigeria: Implications for Increasing Learners’ Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development Through Inclusive Critical Storytelling Pedagogy

Obiagu, Adaobiagu

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3548642

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2020

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3548642

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Unemployment and Poverty Rise in Nigeria: Implications for Increasing Learners’ Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development Through Inclusive Critical Storytelling Pedagogy

Adaobiagu Obiagu

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The challenges of teaching for human rights in Nigeria: knowledge, pedagogy and activism

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Nwaubani

2020

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Human rights promotion continues to elude Nigeria, despite the many human rights instruments ratified and the various human rights initiatives taken. The key question behind this paper is: Why is human rights behaviour poor and human rights violations high despite numerous measures to address these issues? To examine this, the study investigates teachers’ awareness of curriculum contents and pedagogies for cultivating human rights, drawing on a survey of 170 social studies teachers in Enugu State. We find challenges to teaching for human rights, including teachers’ poor knowledge of human rights content; a lack of awareness of human rights pedagogies; a reluctance to engage in activism; and little engagement with participatory pedagogies. We explain these challenges with reference to conservative teacher education, entrenched patriarchal values, a strong nationalistic-oriented curriculum, and authoritarian school structures. We recommend transforming Nigerian social studies teacher education programmes and policies to enable social justice and human rights.

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The challenges of teaching for human rights in Nigeria: knowledge, pedagogy and activism

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Nwaubani

2020

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Unemployment and Poverty Rise in Nigeria: Implications for Increasing Learners’ Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development Through Inclusive Critical Storytelling Pedagogy

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The challenges of teaching for human rights in Nigeria: knowledge, pedagogy and activism

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