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- SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION (₦1000)
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1. History of Education
- Concept and Rationale of History of Education.
- History of Ancient Greek and Roman Education.
- African Traditional Education.
- Islamic Education in Nigeria.
- Onset of Western Education in Nigeria.
- Nigerian Education after Independence in 1960.
- Evolution of primary and Junior Secondary Education in Nigeria.
- Relating current educational system, polices, challenges and successes to the history of Western, Traditional and Islamic Education in Nigeria.
- Overview of the National Policy on Education.
- The national philosophy, objectives and directive principles related to education.
- The national educational philosophy, goals and values.
- Types of education and critical issues recognized by the National Policy on Education; etc.
- Traditional African Education, its functionality and relationship with modern education.
- Brief account of the Early Greek and Roman Education in the Western World.
- Introduction of Christian Missionary / Western Education to Nigeria (covering from the pre-colonial to independence and the present time).
- Origin and development of Islamic Education in Nigeria.
- Current issues in Nigerian Education:
- The 6-3-3-4 system.
- The prospects and constraints of the PPP – Public Private Partnership – model in the ownership and control of education, etc.
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2. Philosophy of Education
- Philosophy and education.
- Various schools of thought in philosophy and their impact on education.
- The philosophical bases for primary, secondary, tertiary and teacher education.
- Educational issues and problems as they relate to the philosophy of education in Nigeria.
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3. Sociology of Education
- Sociology and Education.
- The school as a social system.
- Education, development and social mobility in Nigeria.
- Educational problems and efforts to solve them.
- The role of the teacher.
- Structuring of educational programmes.
- The concept and scope of Sociology of Education.
- The concept, types, process and agents of socialization.
- The family.
- Peer group.
- Mass media.
- School.
- Religious organizations.
- The concepts of culture and subculture.
- Norms and values.
- Other important sociological concepts relevant to education
- Education as culture.
- Social change: Education as agent of social change in Nigeria.
- The social learning theories and principles: The Labeling theories, etc.
- The school as a social system.
- Socialization processes at the school.
- Social factors that affect adaptation and learning at school.
- Social problems in the school, their causes, prevention and management.
- e.g.
- cultism and gangsterism.
- robbery.
- rape.
- examination malpractice.
- alcoholism.
- drug abuse.
- moral decadence.
- mass academic failure.
- e.g.
- The roles of the teacher in the management of social problems in the school.
- Factors that affect the development of Education in a country: socio-polictical, economic, cultural, etc.
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4. Educational Psychology
- Stages and determinants of human development from birth to adulthood.
- Effects of heredity and environment on the physical, cognitive, social, moral and emotional development of an individual.
- The relation and application of psychological principles to educational practice and performance.
- Introduction to the field of Educational Psychology.
- Role of Psychology in the learning process.
- Principles, stages and characteristics of human growth and development.
- The cognitive / intellectual moral, psychomotor / skill, verbal / language, etc dimensions.
- Selected theories of personality (Minimum of two theories).
- The nature/nurture debate (Heredity and environment).
- Psychology and Instruction: Psychological factors that affect learning.
- Psychological foundations of intelligence, motivation.
- Individual differences and effect on academic performance.
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5. Guidance and Counselling
- The concept, scope and goals of Guidance and Counseling in schools.
- Theories of Counseling.
- Guidance and Counseling tests.
- Ethics of Guidance and Counseling services in schools.
- Cases: Studies of specific learner / learning problems that require good knowledge of psychology, guidance and counseling and applicable strategies.
- Problem solving techniques, etc.
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6. The Teaching Profession
- Historical development of teaching as a profession in Nigeria.
- Provisions of the TRCN Act 31 of 1993.
- Activities, programmes and policies of TRCN especially in the areas of
- Registration and licensing of teachers
- Mandatory continuing professional education.
- Induction and internship schemes.
- Control of professional misconduct, incompetence and negligence.
- Accreditation, monitoring and supervision of teacher education programmes.
- Review of TRCN basic publications – Teachers Code of Conduct, Nigerian Journal of Professional Teachers, etc.
- Comparisons of the regulation of teaching in Nigeria and abroad.
- Comparisons of the regulation of teaching and other professions in Nigeria.
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7. Teacher Education
- Trends in Teacher Education concepts.
- Aims and objectives of senior secondary school teacher education.
- Roles of the teacher in the school and as a member of a population group in Nigeria.
- Teacher education issues, problems and strategies for improvement.
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8. Class Management and School Organisation
- Concept of classroom management and organisation.
- class organisation
- classroom leadership
- classroom arrangement
- class control
- class discipline, etc.
- Concept and essence of school public relations.
- Factors influencing school-public relations.
- Staff-management relations.
- Student-staff relations.
- Parent-staff relations.
- School environment.
- School programme.
- School performance.
- School tone.
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9. Educational Technology / ICT
- The concept, scope and role of Educational Technology in the teaching learning process.
- Communication theories and models:
- Types of Communication
- Models of Communication
- Dale
- Schramm
- SMCR
- Early Systems Mass Communication
- The System Approach of Instructional Technology
- Definition
- Component, goals, conditions, resources, outcomes.
- The resources of Instruction
- Human
- Non-human:
- graphics/transparencies
- audio
- audio visual
- realia
- games
- simulations
- multi-media, etc.
- Principles for the Improvisation of teaching aids/media.
- The concept, parts and functions of a computer.
- The use/appreciation of computer.
- Computing/typesetting skills.
- Application packages: Microsoft Word; Power Point, Excel, etc.
- Production of documents using a computer.
- Creation and use of emails and internet-based facilities.
- Internet based research. Use of the internet – browsing, searching, mailing, social media, etc.
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10. Subject Methodology
- Current trends in subject methodology.
- Improvisation.
- Open and Distance Learning (ODL).
- Classes of learning objectives:
- Behavioural, instructional, expressive, etc objectives.
- Formulation of behavioural objectives.
- The concept of general and subject methodology.
- Factors that determine methodology.
- Overview of general teaching methods and techniques, their relative strengths and weaknesses.
- The lesson plan as basic tool; format of a lesson plan.
- Three broad groupings in instruction:
- Lecture or large group instruction.
- Small/medium group interactive instruction
- Introduction
- Logical progression
- Pace and language
- Time management
- Classroom management/discipline
- Use of resources; visual aids, chalkboard, etc
- Questioning techniques, etc.
- The concept and benefits of individualized instruction.
- Primary focus on individual differences and designs that enable learners to develop at their own pace.
- The problems and strategies for the management of large classes.
- Subject methods.
- Theoretical material
- steps
- content
- method
- activity
- resources
- Practical material
- skills
- explanation
- trial
- practice
- Theoretical material
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11. Child Friendly Schools (CFS)
- Concept, principles and models of CFS.
- Definition of CFS.
- Key generic principles of CFS based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, child learning in Nigeria.
- Child centeredness democratic participation, inclusiveness.
- Quality as holistic and multi characteristics of CFS –- dimensional.
- Principle 1 (child rights and inclusive education).
- Principle 2 (effective teaching and learning environments).
- Principle 3 (safe supportive and protective learning environments).
- Principle 4 (healthy and health environments), seeking learning.
- Principle 5 (gender sensitive learning environments).
- Principle 6 (democratic participation and partnership building).
- Policies in Nigeria that promote CFS.
- Child friendly school standards and indicators for teacher education.
- Teacher preparation for CFS child centred interactive methodologies based on constructivist principles and activity based learner centred approach.
- Facilities and resources required for CFS.
- Assessment of teaching in a CFS.
- Technology on a CFS learning and teaching.
- Strategies for mainstreaming CFS concepts and principles in Nigeria.
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12. Curriculum Studies
- Key concepts of curriculum development to include objectives, contents, learning opportunities and evaluation.
- Knowledge and skills on curriculum development.
- Relating instruction (lesson objectives, learning experiences, learning materials, methods and media of instruction, etc.) to curriculum.
- Relating curriculum to national goals.
- Overview of curriculum innovations in Nigeria with respect to specific subject areas.
- The concept and scope of Curriculum.
- Curriculum as a teaching plan.
- Curriculum types/design:
- integrated, core, single subject, etc.
- formal / official and informal / hidden curriculum, etc.
- student-centred and teacher-centred curriculum, etc.
- Components of Curriculum Implementation
- Curriculum content
- Resources
- Methods
- Domains of learning and implications for curriculum development:
- Cognitive
- Affective/moral
- Psychomotor
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13. Measurement & Evaluation
- The concept and scope of measurement and evaluation.
- Uses of tests.
- Classification of tests as teacher-made, standardized, etc.
- Validation of test instruments; etc.
- Types of test items, construction and use.
- Short answer type
- Essay type
- Unstructured type: observation, project, excursion, etc.
- Evaluation standardization strategies;
- mean
- normal curve
- standard deviation
- table of specification
- error modification
- standard score
- T-score transformation, etc.
- Continuous assessment:
- concept
- scope
- rules
- strengths and weaknesses
- Ethics in Measurement and Evaluation.
- Measurement of affective domain: Using self-reports, observation techniques, projective, socio-metric, checklist, strategies, etc.
- Computer based testing, online presentation of students’ results, etc.
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14. Educational Management
- Quality Assurance concepts, processes and types.
- Introduction of Educational Management.
- The concept, scope and goals of Management.
- Factors that contribute to effective Management.
- Management processes.
- Planning in the context of education.
- Supervision of schools.
- Managing the Nigerian Educational system.
- The various categories of educational managers and their roles.
- The meaning and scope of Educational Management.
- Policy and legal issues in the management of Education in Nigeria; the control of education in Nigeria.
- Basic principles and functions of Management.
- Concept and types of organization / bureaucratic features of organizations.
- Organizational structure:
- definition
- types (classical and modern organization structures/centralized and decentralized organizations, etc.)
- The concepts of power and authority, types of authority.
- Discipline in schools.
- Programme planning / design in schools (co activities, examinations, etc.) curricular.
- School supervision / inspection:
- definition
- goals
- types
- principles, etc.
- Traditional and modern methods of school supervision/evaluation.
- Qualities of a good supervisor and evaluator.
- Prospects and constraints of quality assurance processes in Nigerian schools.
- Ethics in Educational Management.
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15. Special Education
- Historical development of Special Education in Nigeria.
- National Policy on Education and Special Education.
- Types of exceptionalities; causes, characteristics, identification and intervention strategies and procedures; attitudes and beliefs.
- Philosophy of education for exceptional children.
- General problems associated with each type of exceptionality and symptoms.
- Inclusive education:
- implementation
- interdisciplinary collaboration
- creating and managing inclusive classroom
- methodology in inclusive education
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16. Education of Special Target Groups / Adult Education
- Rationale, objectives and principles of adults, women, migrants, etc.
- Strategies of non-formal education.
- Principles and strategies of Distance Education (DE).
- Distance Learning System (DLS).
- Open and Distance Learning (ODL).
- Issues, problems, strategies and prospects of the education of women, nomads and migrant fishermen, and other sub-groups.
- Nature and scope of adult education.
- Problems and prospects of adult education in Nigeria.
- Characteristics of the adult learner.
- Methods and materials for teaching adults learners.
- Adult education and human resources development in Nigeria.
- Adult education and national development.
- Types of adult education organisations.
- Cross-cultural comparison of adult education programmes.
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17. Comparative Education
- Factors that influence the character and nature of educational systems of countries.
- Patterns of educational thought as reflected in some systems.
- Traditional educational issues and contemporary problems in education affecting technological and other aspects of development.
- Analysis of the Structure of education and schooling processes in selected foreign countries, e.g. one country each selected from Africa, Asia, Europe and America.
- A comparison of the Nigerian Education system with the selected countries.
- Outline of the best practices and strengths of the foreign education systems that Nigeria needs to emulate.
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18. Educational Statistics
- Statistics and its functions.
- Statistical distributions and their properties.
- Measurement levels and applicable statistics.
- Organization of data (ordinal, simple, frequency distribution, grouped and cumulative, etc.)
- Graphic representation of data –Pictogram, Pie chart.
- Bar chart and histogram, Frequency polygon, Ogive.
- Measures of central tendency
- Mode
- Median
- Mean, etc.
- Measures of dispersion
- Range
- Standard deviation, etc.
- Decision making.
- Types of errors.
- Various statistical instruments:
- Normal Distribution curve
- Student’s t-test
- Stanine Scores
- t-test
- Analysis of Variance
- Coefficient of Correlation, etc.
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19. Educational Research Methods
- The concepts and typologies of Educational Research
- pure and action / applied
- historical / descriptive / experimental
- quantitative / qualitative / eclectic, etc.
- Planning the research.
- Research topic
- Statement of problem
- Objectives
- Literature review.
- Research design.
- Research methodology.
- Data collection techniques.
- Observation.
- Self-reports.
- Experimentation, etc.
- Report writing: complete outline of a research report, etc.
- Format for a Research Project.
- Questionnaires and other instruments for data collection.
- Formulation and testing of hypotheses, preparation of research reports.
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20. English Language and Communication Skills
- Nature and Importance of Classroom Communication.
- Types of language problems among learners and strategies for improvement.
- Grammar:
- parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, etc)
- verb tenses
- agreement/concord
- auxiliary/models
- questions
- types and patterns
- direct and indirect speech
- common errors; etc.
- Writing:
- punctuation
- outlining
- logical presentation of ideas
- paragraphing / structure / development
- logical sequencing of paragraphs
- compositions
- narrative
- descriptive
- argumentative
- explanatory
- letter writing
- formal/informal;
- report writing
- memos
- speeches
- minutes
- writing styles generalizations, etc.
- Reading:
- reading problems
- principles and techniques for effective reading
- reading for various purposes (research, inferences, pleasure, scanning for key ideas, etc)
- creative reading; etc.
- Listening:
- listening types
- listening defects
- strategies for effective listening
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21. Use of the Library
- Functions and types of library.
- Types of library materials.
- Organisational structure of the library.
- Library classification systems, bibliography, catalogues, etc.
- Computerized library operations.
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22. Basic Mathematics
- Binary numbers, conversion from base 2 to base 10 and vice versa; sets definition, notation and diagrams; basic operations on factional and whole numbers; Fractions, decimals, and approximations; indices and surds; graphs; change of subject of formulae.
- Expansion and factorization of simple algebraic expressions; simple algebraic equations and methods of solutions; simple word problems; ratios, percentages, simple and compound interests; variations (direct and inverse).
- Units of measurement for money, length, mass, weight, area, volumes; calculations of areas and volumes of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes e.g. triangle, square, rectangles, cylinder.
- Properties and classification of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes; types of angles, horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines; representation of data – pictogram, bar and pie charts.
- Frequency distribution – histogram and cumulative frequency distribution; mode, median and mean; range, mean deviation, and standard deviation; simple probability and application.
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23. Micro Teaching Theory
- Concept and process of micro teaching.
- Relevance of micro teaching to teacher education.
- Set induction.
- Stimulus variation.
- Planned repetition.
- Reinforcement.
- Non-verbal communication.
- Questioning.
- Closure.
- Evaluation.
- Merits and demerits of micro teaching.
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