Civic Education: A Veritable Instrument for achieving Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper attempts to establish the importance of Civic Education as a veritable instrument for promoting sustainable development in the Nigerian Society. The paper examined civic education and sustainable development, relationship between them and proffers solution on the use of Civic Education Curriculum for knowledge acquisition, skill development and value cultivation as irreducible elements for promoting and achieving sustainable development in the Nigerian Society.  Civic Education is, therefore, seen as an effective instrument for sustainable development through the production of responsible citizens who will maximally contribute to building a useful society. The paper points to the fact that going by the interconnections between Civic Education and sustainable development, Civic Education remains a necessary condition for sustainable development in Nigeria. It, therefore, recommends balanced teaching of Civic Education to reflect the Cognitive ( Knowledge ) Psychomotor ( Skill ) and Affective ( Value ) element of functional rational Citizenship capacity building for societal development.

 The need to emphasize the use of Value education techniques as basic requirement for addressing the deficiency of the existing teaching methods in the school system which are predominantly teacher centered content transmission driven.

Keywords: Civic Education, Instrument, For Achieving, Sustainable Development.