Comparative analysis between Teachers’ Education Goals and Social Change: An Exploratory Study of Nigerian University System
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2024
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Faculty of Education Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State.
Abstract
In Nigeria, despite clearly laid out policy goals with curriculum content mapped to its achievement, outcomes have continually
fall short of expectations in terms of the kind of teachers envisioned in the policy document. The development of teachers with
social change as a goal of teacher education remained a problem. This study aimed at describing teacher education goals for
social change within Nigerian Teacher Education; and examining the relationship that exists between the Teacher Education
goals and social change among the undergraduates. An exploratory sequential mixed method study was used to allow the
leverage of the complimentary advantages of qualitative and quantitative methods for generating deeper insights into
phenomena. In the first part, 11 lecturers from 11 universities were interviewed to generate qualitative data. In the second part,
questionnaire was developed and administered to Teacher Education undergraduate. Participants in the quantitative study were
416 undergraduates at various levels of the Teacher Education programmes in the Nigerian public universities. The study
assessed the factors of age, gender, subject area, and level/year of study as predictors of undergraduates’ conceptualization of
Teacher Education Goals (CTEG) for social change as well as CTEG as a predictor of social change. Thematic analysis and
Structural Equation Model were employed to analyse the data collected for the study. The result showed that none of age,
gender, year of study, and teaching subject significantly predicts CTEG. The study provided important information for policy,
curriculum, strategy, and implementation in line with postmodern Teacher Education that is relevant for the twenty-first
century.
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Oniye, M. I, Ogunniran, V .O, Jekayinfa, O. J, Mustapha, A & Sanni, A. (2024). Comparative analysis between Teachers’ Education Goals and Social Change: An Exploratory. Zamfara International Journal of EducationStudy of Nigerian University System, 4 (4), 316-323