The Lagos government has made mandatory the studying of
history across primary and junior secondary schools in the state.
The state ministry of education, in a statement seen on Saturday, said that the subject is to be offered as an
elective in senior secondary schools.
It said its latest move is in line with directives from the
Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERDC).
“I have the directive of the OG (OEQA) to inform you that
the teaching of History as a standalone subject is back to schools,” the
ministry’s statement read in part.
“The subject has been
re-introduced in the national curriculum and in the current Lagos state unified
schemes of work for primary and junior secondary schools.
“You are to note that while the subject (History) is
compulsory for both primary and junior secondary school classes, it is an
elective subject in the senior secondary school.
“To this end, I am further directed to inform you that the
subject should be taught in primaries 1 and 2 and JSS 1 and 2 classes in the
2022/2023 academic session.”
History, for some years, has been mostly excluded in the
curriculum of many primary and secondary schools.
In many cases, a few historical topics are taught without
much depth as part of social studies.
In 2018, the federal government ordered the nationwide
reintroduction of history as an independent subject in the curriculum of
primary and junior secondary schools in the country.
Adamu Adamu, minister of education, had stated that the
NERDC would carry out the disarticulation of history from social studies
curriculum.
He had said the new curriculum would be designed to expose
students to a body of knowledge that would enable them to appreciate history as
an instrument of national integration and nation building.
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