INTEGRATING SECURITY EDUCATION IN SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM: IMPACTS ON AWARENESS AND UTILISATION

Abstract

This paper aim to examine the integrating of security education in social studies curriculum:implications on security awareness and utilisation. It has been observed in the recent times that school have been bedeviled with several issues on security challenges and also become a place of attack for criminal and terrorist in Nigeria. There are some evidences ranging from porous school environment, lack of technological devices like circuit camera television (CCTV), lack of knowledge about crime and attack, curriculum not well implemented, school leadership and support, lack of physical security measures, poor community collaboration and just to mention a few. It has also be observed in the recent time that issues on school attack and security issues ranging from bully, killing, raping, terrorism, hostage taking, ritual killings etc. These above reasons led to the inclusion of security education in the teaching and learning of social studies to enhanced ability to handle security challenges for better understanding of security alertness in other for the learners to utilise them effectively. Therefore, this paper seeks to explain concepts of security education,awareness, utilisation, and importance of teaching security education and it was recommended that schools should make sure that security education teaching and learning become practical activity also, parents should be actively involved in their wards or children daily activities on ways to avert security threats. There should be in-service training and development for teachers teaching security education for better awareness and utilisation of security education.