Abstract:
The study sought to find out the use of community resources among Social Studies
teachers in Senior High School Tamale Metropolis. Three research questions were
made, two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive and correlation
designs were employed to carry out this study. One hundred and twenty nine Social
Studies teacher’s in all the twenty five senior high schools in Tamale Metropolis were
used as respondents for the study. A questionnaire with reliability co-efficient of 0.78
was used to collect data from Social Studies teachers. Descriptive statistics, Pearson
Product Movement Correlation and t-test were used to analyses the data. The study
showed that majority of the teachers of Social Studies do not use community resources
to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject. It also showed that lack of
necessary pedagogical skills, funds, administrative support, inadequate time among
others were some of the constraints against the effective use of community resources.
The study revealed a negative correlation between the student and teachers in the use of
community resources to teach or recall Social Studies. Finally, the study revealed that
there was no statistically significant difference in the use of community resources
between qualified and unqualified Social Studies teacher. It was therefore,
recommended that Social Studies teachers should try as much as possible to integrate
the use of community resources in teaching of Social Studies content.
Description:
A thesis in the Department of Social Studies Education,
Faculty of Social Sciences, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Education
(Social Studies)
in the University of Education, Winneba
