Assessment of Social Studies Education Influence on Acquisition and Exhibition of Knowledge on Core -Values for National Integration Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria 

Assessment of Social Studies Education Influence on Acquisition and Exhibition of Knowledge on Core -Values for National Integration Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria 

ABSTRACT  

This study was no assessment of Social Studies Education influence on acquisition and exhibition of knowledge core-value for National Integration among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria.

Accordingly, seven (7) research objectives, questions and null hypotheses each guided the study. Descriptive survey method was employed and the population of study was all undergraduate Social Studies students in North-west geo-political zone of Nigeria numbering two thousand one hundred and thirty-five (2,135).

A sample of four hundred respondents (400) was selected through the use of purposive and proportionate sampling techniques.

Mean and standard deviation were used to report the descriptive data collected, while t-test was used to test all the seven (7) null hypotheses developed.

INTRODUCTION  

Institutions of higher learning are social organisations where values are imparted. Research shows that education aims to create desired changes in learners (in terms of knowledge and skills) by transmitting values to improve learners‘ behaviour.

The school, being the first place where learners are formally placed in the society, outside the protective zone of a family, is seen as a starting point to orientate young persons or students on the Nigeria core values as well as need for national integration.

It is a place where students are exposed to others who they may not have the opportunity to mingle with, in other contexts.

Institutions of higher learning in Nigeria are also platform to introduce the existence of other cultures, customs and religions and to enable the students to see those differences as part of life.

Eventually these young minds could, with the right guidance, accept and celebrate differences, rather than seeing differences as stumbling blocks.

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