SOCIAL STUDIES EXPERTS' AND NON- SOCIAL STUDIES EXPERTS' KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN OKE-OGUN AREA OF OYO STATE

Authors

  • Babatunde Adeniyi ADEYEMI Institute of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State
  • Mumini Bamidele TIAMIYU Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Oyo State
  • Abiodun Ismael BADMUS

Keywords:

Environmental Education, Social Studies, Knowledge and Perception

Abstract

This paper was born out of the fact that the teaching of
Social Studies has become more competitive among the
experts and non-experts in secondary schools. The
study adopted a descriptive design of the survey type.
Fifty respondents were chosen from 25 secondary
schools in Oke-Ogun Zone 1 Area of Oyo State.
Questionnaire used to collect data for the study
bothered on the knowledge and perception of Social
Studies teachers on same environmental education
topics embedded in the Social Studies curriculum. Two
hypotheses was generated to guide the study and the
data collected were analyzed using inferential statistics.
The results of the findings showed variation between the
experts and non-experts. It was recommended among
others that Social Studies experts should be allowed to
teach the environmental education topics in Social
Studies.

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Published

2025-10-19

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): IFE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CIVIC STUDIES

Section

Articles