Influence of Child Right Education and Social Studies on the Academic Performance of Primary School Pupils in Owerri Municipal Council of Imo State

Abstract

Child right education is a means of teaching the child his rights, duties and obligations in the society through the process of teaching and learning. It offers the child the opportunity to know himself, whom he is, socialize within the immediate environment and community. Child right education unlocks the doors of prosperity for the child and can be seen as the fulcrum on which the wheel of the socio-political, economic, religious and cultural life of every child rotates. Social Studies is the study of man in his physical, social, economic, political, religious and cultural environment. It looks at man’s activities in the family, community, kingship, state and nation. The paper x-rayed the concepts of child right education and Social Studies. Expo facto research design was adopted by the researchers. The population consisted of sixteen thousand six hundred and forty-one (16641) pupils while a sample of three hundred and ninety-one (391) pupils were used using multi stage random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection were Child Right Education Questionnaire and Social Studies Achievement Proforma (SSAP.) Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. Findings revealed among others that there is significance difference in Social Studies mean achievement scores of pupils adequate and inadequate child right education and also that child right education has significant influence on pupils’ achievement in Social Studies in Owerri Municipal Council of Imo State. Conclusions were made with useful recommendations that enhance effective child right education in Nigeria.