Kwara State University
Olumuyiwa Ayobami Ajayi
Designation: Lecturer II
Department: Early Childhood and Primary Education
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| 1 | Assessment of Children's Storybooks for the enhancement of global citizenship and sustainable development |
The global society is fast- changing, interconnected and interdependent with technological advancement. However,there are attendant challenges in every part of the world such as climate change, terrorism, poverty and others. The situation then calls for global citizenship and sustainable development education with a view to developing individuals who would be more positively engaging in their world, acting with moral and ethical integrity as well as working for the common good of individuals and the society at large. In the light of this,children are expected to be exposed to curricula that will equip them with appropriate knowledge, skills and values needed to navigate through the fast-changing globalized world. Researchers have advocated building teachers' capacity to become global educators, so that they would be well-equipped to make success of the goal. However, a vital tool that should not be left out of the scenario is children's storybooks, considering the importance of storybooks to children. The study adopted survey research design. All children storybooks formed the population for the study, out of which 50 were randomly selected. Oxfam Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development Scale(OGCSDS) featuring global citizenship and sustainable development indices was used to assess the contents of the storybooks. The findings showed that issues of global citizenship and sustainable development have not received much attention in the children's storybooks and recommendations were made that children's storybooks writers should give more attention to features of global citizenship and sustainable development. The features should also be presented at the levels of the children for clarity of contents. | Hannah Ajayi, C.O. Odejobi & Olumuyiwa Ayobami Ajayi | 5 Pg 108 | Journal of Early Childhood and Primary Education. Association Journal | 2016-05-04 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319998906_Assessment_of_Children's_Storybooks_for_the_Enhancement_of_Global_Citizenship_and_Sustainable_Development | |