Innovative trends in political science education: Implications for teaching government in senior secondary schools in Nigeria

Abstract

The teaching of government in Nigeria’s secondary school system has been frosted with challenges resulting in poor performance of students in external exterminations, and failure on their parts to imbibe the culture of social and political assets for national development. These challenges are traceable to poor motivation and a lack of innovative strategies. This paper presented analytical research on related innovative trends in the field of political science education and their implications for teaching government subjects in senior secondary schools in Nigeria. The study adopted the qualitative research method by reviewing documents in the web of science database. It was observed that the traditional method of teaching government teachers usually adopt has been identified as one of the causes of students’ poor performance in government subjects. Conversely, the adoption of innovative strategies has been applauded as one of the ways of enhancing learners’ performance in the teaching and learning experience in various subjects in developed countries. The study sought to answer the question: how could these innovative techniques be effectively implemented in government instructional delivery to enhance students’ performance in senior secondary schools in Nigeria? Based on the finding that due to the differences in the ways teachers deliver their lessons in the classroom and the varying in its findings the study recommends that teachers, instructors, and intending government teachers should endeavour to incorporate the trending innovative techniques in their instructional delivery in order to boost students’ performance in government subject and also consolidate their comprehension and knowledge retention in government.