IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 3 NO. 5 2017

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Refocusing of Social Studies Curriculum for Employment Generation in Kano State

Gazali Hussain Mustapha Yahaya Umar Farouk Mansur Sani Salihu

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Abstract

Economic hardship nowadays necessitated world communities to diversify their economy. Nigeria is now on the process to do so. Refocusing social studies education for employment generation in Kano is the topic of this paper. Kano is one of the 36 states of Nigeria and the well-known center of commercial and other economic activities. Social studies is an integrated discipline encompasses economics, commerce, geography, agricultural science etc. to refocus the subject for employment generation curriculum and methodology of teaching it need to be redirect in such a way that it will include given training for skill acquisition so that students at the end of their schooling would be self employed. This will be done under the course (124). Man and his economic activities and (214) field rip where students would be taught various economic activities, small scale manufacturing, operating private school, counseling services trading etc. among the recommendations made were the provision in the for self-employment as Kano state is a centre of commerce and other marketable economic activities. Finally, this paper concluded that Kano is a center of commerce and other economic activities that do not exist in other part of the country and all these economic activities are marketable in Kano area and can accommodate large number of trained social studies educators and can upgrade their living stand and acrew the economy of the area.

keywords:

Social studies, employment generation

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