Challenges and Strategies for Improving Value Education in Public Primary Schools in River State.

Abstract

The study examined challenges and strategies of value education in public primary schools in Rivers Sate. The study employed a descriptive survey design with a population of 9973 teachers serving in primary schools in Rivers Sate with a sample of 387 urban and rural teachers drawn using Taro Yemen sampling technique. Two research question were answered while two hypotheses were tested in the study. The face validated challenges and strategies of value education in public primary schools questionnaire (CSVEPPSQ) was used for data collection, while internal consistency reliability through cronbach alpha yielded a coefficient of 0.83 for CSVEPPSQ. Mean and standard deviation were used for data collection while t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that urban and rural teachers strongly agreed on the challenges and strategies of value education in Rivers State and the researchers recommended that the leaders at all level should be fair by upholding the National Anthem as a guide while teaching the students as well as the golden rule. The government should provide the needed physical and material resources that will facilitate effective teaching of value education, as well as administrators ensure training and retraining of value education teachers, it equally recommended the need for parents to teach their children on the right value and attitude devoid of constituting nuisance.