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International Journal of Management Science Vol 1, Num 1 2009
International Journal of Management Science Vol 1, Num 1 2009
Youths In Political Leadership In Nigeria: The Trend, Challenges and Prospects
This work offers a glimpse into the world of youths in political leadership in Nigeria.
Political leadership around the world, at present, is almost returning to what it used to be in the past. Youths, the world over, are gradually working their ways up towards taking the leadership mantle. This is very visible in the western world at present with Africa also trying to take a prompt.fi-om them. The work similarly gives a shortlist of some of such young ·world leaders who, regardless of all the ordeals and inflexibilities attached to attaining such heights in the 1mrld of politics, still maintain their stance.
The Nigerian government and its initiatives to promote youths' involvement in governance and developmental structures, the challenges and prospects of youths'
involvement in political leadership in Nigeria are equally captured in this study.
MOBILIZING NIGERIANS TOWARDS GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STUDIES AND CIVIC EDUCATION
The low level of political consciousness of the people was a major obstacle to their effective participation in the affairs of the country. It also provided good grounds for manipulation of the political process by politicians and the various segments of the elite in the society, who exploited the mass ignorance of the people to perpetrate all forms of political and economic frauds. This situation created a culture of helplessness, apathy, indifference about the happenings in the political arena in the country. Masses have been deliberately misinformed or even kept in the dark about crucial issues affecting their lives and basic rights. Most of them participated in elections and other programmes simply because they were asked to, not because they understood clearly the issues involved. They were drawn into many acrimonious disputes by politicians and made to participate in various electoral malpractices, thuggery and other vices. In the process, many of them lost their lives while the politicians engaged in massive and flagrant looting of the national treasury. This paper dwells on the influence of social studies and civic education in mobilizing citizens towards global citizenship and the problems hindering this mobilization.
MOBILIZING NIGERIANS TOWARDS GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STUDIES AND CIVIC EDUCATION.
MOBILIZING NIGERIANS TOWARDS GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STUDIES AND CIVIC EDUCATION.
CREATIVE ARTS AS INGREDIENT OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FOR THE RESOCIALISATION OF YOUTHS AGAINST TERRORISM IN NIGERIA
The work on the role of Creative Arts in resocializing the youths against the act of terrorism was premised on the activities of terrorists and the untold pains and hardship they register in the lives of their victims. The functions and personality of an artist/ artiste were included in the course of the work. The inclusion of these further enhances the need for youths to prepare their minds as regard to what is expected of them by their instructors. Emphasis was also laid on identifying the contents and methodology for teaching Creative Arts in Nigerian junior secondary schools. The importance of multicultural education was also pointed out. Recommendations and available areas in Creative Arts that could be adopted in transforming the youths who remain easy tools in the hands of their sponsors were also mentioned.
RESTRUCTURING THE FAMILY UNIT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
This paper is primarily concerned with identifying those ways through which the family unit can be engaged in promoting its own survival and its possible use for the sustainable development of the society. The changes recorded around the issue of values are numerous and act as threats to the survival and stability of the family unit, hence there is the need to work out ways of promoting its survival. The major areas that have been identified in this paper are centered around values and mindset reorientation. Values, we know, are transmitted through multiple origins such as belief system, norms, interactions, customs, role playing, sanctions, language, socialization process etc. However, these values are presently misunderstood and practiced contrarily due to some environmental factors. The importance attached to developmental issues makes it necessary for these values to be revisited and be used as references for further building of a society that is obviously vulnerable to unimaginable vices of the society.
DEVELOPING SOCIO-ECONOMIC SKILLS THROUGH SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF ATTITUDES AND VALUES.
The call for Social Studies Education students to be fully equipped with the desirable socio-economic skills obtained through developing right attitudes and values that will help transform them into .responsible and self-reliant people cannot be over emphasized. This work, however, anchors on this fact and has been able to point out some of the essential socio-economic skills that could enable partakers in Social Studies Education toil along the line of becoming well developed. The acquisition and application of acceptable attitude and values in one's daily activities undoubtedly. form the crux of man's ability to survive in any given environment and the development of some socio-economic skill is not an exception. This·, therefore, presents a better description of the role of the practitioners of Social Studies Education to take up the responsibility of working towards the implementation of the content of Social Studies Education curriculum which partly lies on developing a right sense of attitudes and values for the development of socio-economic skills among learners.
THE ROLE OF CULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE CONSERVATION OF TRADITIONAL STORAGE SYSTEM [SILO] FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; FOCUS ON THE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE OF AMAC, ABUJA.
Naturally, indigenous societies have their ways and customs they use to create wealth for the sustenance of their households. Two aspects of indigenous ways of developing knowledge occur in every given society. They are the tangible or objective [material] ways which come in the form of knowledge developed through what is seen, felt and have direct contact with; and intangible or spiritual [non-material] form. This type of knowledge is transmitted through the people's ideologies, philosophies, values, belief systems and others. In other words, they cannot be felt or seen but, are highly respected and practiced.
Indigenous education naturally comes with the people's culture. It comes down to them
informally but, it is well preserved and referred to as the situation demands. Culture
relativism clearly states that, a greater part of the people's ways of perceiving events and
situations are usually got from what is in existence in their culture [Schaefer, p.200 1].
Each society uses its age-long acquired technologies to eke out life-sustaining food, shelter, health, knowledge and others from this same environment and also to provide protection from the dangers hovering around the said environment. This rightly fits into Webb's definition for technology which states that, technologies are the cultural traditions for dealing with the physical and biological environment. That human beings interact with their immediate environment to find ways of survival is not strange to the human society.
It is obviously recorded that prehistorically, man in his original self, made proper use of those things [herbs, clay, stones, animals, woods and others] found around him [Thompson, Adelugba and Ifie, 1991]. According to Kuku [20 11 , p.3 ], the peoples' culture defines the totality of their worldviews, ways of life, habits and language with all it expresses because; anything conceivable by a people is codified by them. Every situation was made to fit into its proper place by the means of improvisation and innovations. In same vein, Webb in
Thompson etal [1991] remarks:
Culture on the other hand is capable of creativity. When men and women experience a change in their environmental setting, they are often able to adapt successfully to their new situation by means of cultural innovation, these innovations becoming cultural traditions over the passage of time. Restricting our view to that type of cultural tradition which we call technology, we find human beings for example, inventing technological means of housing and clothing manufacture to stay warm even in the coldest climates, and devising irrigation technologies to survive under relatively dry environmental conditions.
Nations all over the world aspire in various ways to initiate mechanisms for the development of their people and the land. The Nigerian nation has not been an exception in this regard. The various sectors that make up the place at present undergo series of programme meant for the transformation of the nation. Agricultural activities of interests are initiated and efforts made to innovate what is already in existence, dating back to the time of its fore fathers. For this reason therefore, it behooves the people to protect their indigenous storage systems which have, over the years, helped in sustaining lives through sufficient food supply.
For the people of Abuja Municipal Area Council [AMAC], inventing ways of storing grains
harvested for future use by way of keeping them in the silo is not abnormal. Through this
means, they could save enough food for the entire year. What is saved could be sold in the
market and at the same time, used for food. It was a practice that was widely enjoyed by its people generation after generation but for the upsurge of foreign technological boom and other factors, what is seen at present, are those created by their grandfathers. Overtime now, the sight of the traditional silo is fast eroding. The usual object that formed a memorable spectacle among strangers is rarely within sight. People frequently go in and out of the silo to collect grains [which were what they actually stored in the silo]. The system, at present, is being neglected. It is on this note that the paper anchors its relevance so as to ascertain what factors are informing the gradual exit of the traditional storage system among this group of people. However, the main objective of this study is to examine how this age long practice can be revisited and conserved through cultural education of the youths for further development of the Nigerian nation.
DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ACADEMIA FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 1- NO POVERTY
The need to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 1- No Poverty requires a collective effort from all concerned. There is no one way to addressing a state of poverty among the people of a nation and in considering those available ways; the academia should come in because, it has been granted the opportunity of giving back to the larger society its wealth of experiences. The academia being vested with the responsibility of transforming negative attitudes in individuals obviously stands out to be one of the surest avenue through which people's attitude to life should take a better turn so as to promote a meaningful, responsible and economically buoyant society. It is based on this, the paper is anchored on identifying various ways the academia [in partnership with other organizations} can help the society achieve Sustainable Development Goal- 1 [no poverty} as initiated by the United Nations. It is the academia that produces the relevant stakeholders needed for nation building and in building a nation, the socio-economic and political lives of the citizens must be affected positively. Among the available findings is that which states that, 'poverty, is the worst kind of violence perpetrated on people.' Therefore, in order to curb or erase this description from the minds of people, there is eve1y need to create a suitable environment for the academia to further express its mandate to the people of a nation.
EFFECTIVE AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE FEMALE-GENDER IMPLICATION FOR SOCIETAL STABILITY
There has been a good record of women's participation in both appointive and elective positions and the number of achievements attained so far. History points out the significant roles Nigerian (for instance) women played in the precolonial Kingdoms such as Oyo, Kanuri , Kano, Benin, Kaduna, and others until the colonial period where women from Aba, Lagos, Calabar played different roles in guarding against every form of discrimination and injustices. The postcolonial period till date, also lay credence to the fact that, women are not relenting in their quest for recognition and participation in the affairs of their country. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its quest to reducing the poverty line among Nigerian women, designed programmes that include mass literacy for these women. Despite the various enactments, records have shown that the need to ensure the implementation of this convention by member states has remained a challenge. The Nigerian woman has been bedeviled with the challenge of gaining equal access to formal
education. This challenge has given rise to women not being generously counted among decision makers. All these had been enumerated in the course of carrying out this work.
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