PROMOTING GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES COURSE AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Globalization is an unstoppable current that has positive and negative impacts. The positive  impacts  such  as cooperation,  easy  access  to  information,  while  the  negative impacts refer more to the nature or actions such as the many moral  crimes  committed  by  adolescents.  It is also due to the lack of optimal education in transferring moral values. One of the subjects that play a  role in the formation of good citizens and  values  is  social  studies  education,  but  the  social  studies curriculum  still  emphasizes  mastery  of  the  material,  social studies subjects are too material, cognitive and rote. Because it is  memorized,  social  studies  learning  becomes  tedious, unattractive and seen as a burden for students, especially if it is associated  with  its  status  as  a subject  not  included  in  the national  exam. The community also considers that social studies lessons are not important, so the values in social studies learning are not well conveyed.