Nweze Reuben N.
Department of History Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo
Abstract.
This research work focused on the problems of teaching and learning of history in senior secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Its objectives were aimed at finding out the problems of teaching and learning of history in secondary schools, the problems students encounter during their studies in history, the reasons why history is not recognized and also why the government do not pay attention to this course, history as a subject, the reasons why students at times do not perform very well in examination in history as a subject. During this research, information were collected by means of oral interview which was carefully administered to randomly selected respondents. The findings revealed that inadequacy of teachers and employment of unqualified teachers has created a lot of deficiencies in history as a subject. The findings also revealed that majority of the students cannot practice or learn on their own without the guidance of their teachers, therefore teachers in history should be adequately trained as they have much impact on students performance.
Key words: Influence of poor attitudes, Towards teaching and learning of History, in secondary schools in Ebonyi State. It’s negative effects in Nigerian politics.
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