Raising awareness of climate change issues in Nigeria through education for policy and practice

The objective of this study is to raiseawareness through education inmitigating of climate issues. Also, to finding out relationship between resilience teaching and learning and mitigating of climate change issues in North-central zone, Nigeria. The study investigated managing e...

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Main Author: Nimota Jibola Kadir Abdullahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Research, Policy & Practice of Teachers & Teacher Education
Online Access:https://ejournal.upsi.edu.my/index.php/JRPPTTE/article/view/3435/2375
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description The objective of this study is to raiseawareness through education inmitigating of climate issues. Also, to finding out relationship between resilience teaching and learning and mitigating of climate change issues in North-central zone, Nigeria. The study investigated managing education toward mitigatingclimate change inNorth-central zone, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 375 head teachers and 384 teachers in public primary schools in North-central zone, Nigeria.Questionnaire title “Managing Education Toward MitigatingClimate Change Issues Questionnaire (METACCIQ) was used to collect data for the study and analysed using descriptivestatistics and t-test analysis. The results shown that there is no significant difference between raising awareness, resilience teaching and learning and mitigatingof climate change issues in Nigeria. It was recommended that Government, school administrators, teachers and stakeholders should embark on raising awareness on climate change issues to encouragechanges in young people attitudes and behavior. Also, resilience teaching and learning should be made interesting in order to increases climate literacy among learnersthrough education.
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spelling doaj.art-37b9704fca1b4802b0d5fdb12d4ebbc72022-12-21T22:48:41ZengUniversiti Pendidikan Sultan IdrisJournal of Research, Policy & Practice of Teachers & Teacher Education2232-04582550-17712020-06-011011426https://doi.org/10.37134/jrpptte.vol10.1.2.2020Raising awareness of climate change issues in Nigeria through education for policy and practiceNimota Jibola Kadir Abdullahi0University of Ilorin, NigeriaThe objective of this study is to raiseawareness through education inmitigating of climate issues. Also, to finding out relationship between resilience teaching and learning and mitigating of climate change issues in North-central zone, Nigeria. The study investigated managing education toward mitigatingclimate change inNorth-central zone, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 375 head teachers and 384 teachers in public primary schools in North-central zone, Nigeria.Questionnaire title “Managing Education Toward MitigatingClimate Change Issues Questionnaire (METACCIQ) was used to collect data for the study and analysed using descriptivestatistics and t-test analysis. The results shown that there is no significant difference between raising awareness, resilience teaching and learning and mitigatingof climate change issues in Nigeria. It was recommended that Government, school administrators, teachers and stakeholders should embark on raising awareness on climate change issues to encouragechanges in young people attitudes and behavior. Also, resilience teaching and learning should be made interesting in order to increases climate literacy among learnersthrough education.https://ejournal.upsi.edu.my/index.php/JRPPTTE/article/view/3435/2375
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title_full_unstemmed Raising awareness of climate change issues in Nigeria through education for policy and practice
title_short Raising awareness of climate change issues in Nigeria through education for policy and practice
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