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Teaching Culture at the Teacher Education Level for Transformation, Reformation and Value re-Orientation for National Development.
Abstract
The mere mention of culture puts some people off. These are people who believe that anything culture is mundane, devilish, fetish and are of poor religious value. Culture is seen as the totality if human’s existence on earth including belief system, economic life, social, religious, educational, norms and values. Teaching culture in schools at different levels have always been there. This paper takes a critical look at teaching culture for its merits and demerits, whether it is for transformation and reformation in relation to the value reorientation and national development. For effective data collection, a questionnaire was prepared where people were required to indicate their preferences. The use of simple percentage was adopted in the analysis of the responses got. Oral interviews were equally conducted as the responses to the questionnaires could not throw enough light on the sought after, response. These forms a part of the data collection. It was found out that the teaching of culture for its value in teacher education.
