Institutionalizing culture of peace in basic education through appropriate curriculum implementation

• Main Authors: Lilian-Rita I. Akudolu, Doris Chinyere Umenyi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) 2016-05-01
• Series: International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction
• Online Access: http://ijci.wcci-international.org/index.php/IJCI/article/view/36/25

This paper reports a study that was aimed at revealing the extent to which teachers implement Peace Education curriculum in Nigeria. The study was a survey and covered junior secondary schools in Enugu North and South Local Government Education Authorities in Enugu State, Nigeria. The sample constituted randomly selected 200 junior secondary school teachers. Questions that guided the study were based on how frequently teachers engaged in peace-prone instructional activities involving Interactive Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Conflict Resolution and Empathy. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The major findings showed that a good number of the respondents did not adopt peace-prone instructional strategies in curriculum implementation.