Covid-19 Era and Teaching and Learning of Economics in Nigerian Public Secondary School: Problems and Way Forward
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https://doi.org/10.31150/ajshr.v2i6.511Keywords:
Covid-19, Economics, Learning, Secondary schools, TeachingAbstract
This paper discusses the problem caused by Covid-19 on the Nigerian Secondary Education especially the public Secondary Schools. Economics is one of the programme affected in the Nigerian public Secondary Schools. This paper is narrowed to examine the impact of covid-19 on the economics programme in the Nigerian public Secondary Schools. Secondary data were used to support the various points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from online publication and print materials. The article concludes that the covid-19 outbreak which led to the shutdown of all educational institutions in Nigeria have led to suspension of teaching and learning of Economics, suspension of Economics’ examinations, suspension Economics excursion programme, suspension of Economics’ supervision in public Secondary Schools, suspension of capacity development programme of Economics’ teachers and suspension of academic programme of programme of Economics. To prepare for the future and to ensure that Economics programme even in the mist of any pandemic that the teaching and learning Economics should continue, this paper recommended the following: the government should increase the funding of Economics programme, provide adequate ICT facilities to support the E-teaching and learning of Economics programme and ensure training and retraining of teachers in ICT to enable them use ICT for teaching and learning programme, capacity development should be designed in such a way that it should e-training for Economics teachers and e-supervision for Economics programme should be introduced.
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