Effect of Project-Based Method On Student Achievement in Government Curriculum in Secondary School

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Government means different things to different people in different situations. Some people may see government as a process; some may see it as an institution and some others may see it as a subject. Government as a process implies the complex networking of systems for purposes of rule making, rule implementation and rule adjudication (Obianyo, 2002). This in a simple parlance means the actual State administration. In this definition, people see Government from the point of what the body of people in administration can do for the ruled. Government as an institution connotes a series of accepted and regular procedures for the administration of the people in a State (Oriaku, 2000). Government as an institution is the most common perception of the term Government, in the sense that it falls within the common man‟s daily usage of the term to describe those apparatuses for institutions of the State responsible for governance (Obianyo, 2002). Ezegbe (2006:113) defining Government as an institution states that it is “the body of persons who are engaged in the business of law making, law administration and law adjudication”. Government as an institution refers to machinery for State administration.