Social Studies Education as a Panacea for Building a Secured and United Nigeria

Abstract

his paper, social studies as a panacea for building a secure and united Nigeria, is all about what social studies, as a course of study does to making us have and live in a secure and united country. The paper talks about approaches and methods used in Social Studies to indicate values, norms, beliefs, traditions, etc into the learners that make them useful to the society they live and to equally make the society a better place to live. These Social Studies does by using some methods and approaches in teaching the course. Some of them as mentioned in this paper are discussion method, inquiry method, role play/dramatization, problem solving technique, etc. If these are properly learnt, assimilated and demonstrated, Nigeria will be a secure and United Nigeria. Recommendations were also made as to what we need to do to make proper implementation of these methods and approaches. Keywords: Education: Social Studies: Norms: Traditions: Beliefs: Values: Nigeria.