THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN PROMOTING NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper has been able to examine the role of social studies in facilitating National consciousness. It has been able to do justice to what social studies entails, the challenges associated with it in its efforts in promoting national consciousness and the way forward. It has been able to identify national consciousness as a shared sense of national identity; a shared understanding that a people group shares a common ethnic/linguistic/cultural background. The apparent euphoria that characterized the expectation of the founding fathers of Social Studies Education in Nigerian Schools appears to be flagging in the face of society characterized by moral decadence and man-made woes. This has made it difficult to be able to achieve the promotion of national consciousness in Nigerians and hence a hindrance to national development. The source of data was primarily, secondary.