Perception of Teachers of Social Studies on Citizenship Education in Senior High Schools in Ghana
Keywords:
citizens, citizenship education, Ghana, social studies, teachersAbstract
The tension over the subject matter of social studies fuelled by different camps from history and the social sciences led to a group from Teachers College, Columbia University organizing a round table in Chicago on social studies (Evans, 2004). This meeting was organized by Earle Rugg in a letter that cited a lack of agreement in the subject matter (Evans, 2004, p.37). Formerly, known as the National Council of Teachers of the Social Studies, NCSS sought to bring consensus and meaning to the subject by coining up a definition that: social studies shall include history, government, economics, geography, and sociology (Drafts, 1921). It is estimated that by the late 1920’s more than 1,600 members had joined NCSS and it was growing in both membership and influence (Evans, 2004). NCSS has grown both in membership and structure and continues to go strong up to the present day in the United States. This study, however was informed and influenced by the existing literatures on the teaching social studies and how teachers respond to the scope, teaching methods in line with the ever changing curriculum. A desktop study design was used in the data collection. The analysis was exclusively qualitative.
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