Analysis Of The Decline Of Geography In Nigerian Secondary Schools

It's an analysis for the decline of geography in our Nigerian secondary schools over the years. The paper looks at the problems and causes of the decline in the subject. By using secondary data from the national examinations body the paper was able to deduce the reasons for the decline. 

Abstract:

Geography as a school subject is one of the most important subjects in senior secondary school education and it’s relevant for students in their pursue of tertiary education cannot be over emphasizes. Geography equips with the understanding of its environment, because geography teaches man how to interact with his physical environment, so it therefore  helps students to appreciate  their environment  better and the usefulness of the abundant resources in  their environment. The research employed the use of secondary data that was gotten from the West Africa examination council of the number of student that registered and sat for the senior secondary school final exams in geography from 2003-2017. A correlation analysis was used to determine the level of relationship between the number of students that registered for the exams and the actual number of students that later sat for the exams, and trend analysis was used to check the trend in the numbers from 2003-2017. This was used to understand the reason for the decline in other to support or reject that the subject is actually in decline in Nigeria. From the results in this study, it was concluded that the relationship between  the  number  of  students  that  registered  and  sat  for  geography  at  WAEC  within  the  year  under  review  is statistically significant. 

Keywords: Geography, WAEC, Nigerian secondary school.