MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES AND ELECTRONIC BASED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES

BY

AMINU MOHAMMED (PhD) First published in 2023 © Aminu Mohammed ISBN:978–978–795–898–8

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Supported by:TETFUND Abuja, Nigeria Published by:Academic Publishing Centre,Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.

DEDICATION

This book is formally dedicated to my parent and my beloved wives and children.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Glory be to Allah, the All-seeing, the All-hearing, Master of the heaven and the earth Who Has seen me through the successful completion of this Book. May His blessing be to our Beloved Prophet- Muhammad (S. A.W).

There are far too many People who have contributed to the writing of this book to thank individually. However, am deeply grateful to Professor H. I Bayaro the Dean Faculty of Education Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and Professor I.D Mayanci the Head of Section (Social Studies Education) Department of Arts and Social Science ABU Zaria. They are, of truth and indeed my Academic Mentors. I cannot forget all their tireless efforts at advancing my academic Career via their tutelage at my Supervision of my M.Ed. Dissertation and Ph.D. Thesis as well as always being on my neck urging me to write and publish. I also remain grateful to Professor H. I. Bayero for his acceptance to write the foreword to this book. Thank you ‘My Prof’.

Am immeasurable grateful to Professor F. S. Ogundare my M.Ed. Dissertation external Examiner who contributed to the writing of this book right from the topic; words are not enough to thank you, Prof.

My appreciations go to my academic associate people like Dr. S. J. Jamilu, (NBIAS) Dr. Nasa’i Muhammad (ABU Zaria) and Dr. Usman Lawal Markafi (Kaduna State University) for their contributions and encouragement.

To TETFund, am very grateful for the full support in publishing this book, I cannot thank you enough.

I sincerely appreciate my dear Wives Jamila Yahaya and Farida Bashir Ibrahim for their patience and understanding. As for my Children, Ummulkhulthum, Muhammad Baba, Aishatu, Rukkayyatu and Sofiyyat, I owe you a lot of thanks for depriving you of the presence of a loving father in my bid to actualize this dream. Thank you all.

My gratitude goes to my parent Late Father Mal. Muhammadu Kolo Wushishi and my mother Mallama Hauwa Kulu Muhammad for their parenting care and breeding me up to this level.Lest I forget, I wish to thank all my friends and Colleagues for your moral support May God grant you all your heart desires.Finally, my appreciation also goes to the Management of the College and Staff of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Niger State College of Education Minna.

PREFACE

The writing of this book was motivated by the important dimension of human technological advances in Contemporary times. This innovation or technological development is varied and has had a spillover effect on the schools with special emphasis on the teaching-learning process that is continuously yawning for improved performance - one of these innovations - novel, change, new practices geared at the efficacious instructional delivery system in Social Studies, is Multimedia Resources and Electronic based instructional strategies in teaching Social Studies.

It is important that social studies teachers need relevant materials in preparing themselves how to access Multimedia resources, organization and utilization for effective teaching and learning delivery.

This book will not only be important to Social Studies teachers and students but the Government and Educational policymakers. It will guide them to see how Multimedia Resources are needed to support classroom teaching. I express a deep sense of gratitude and indebtedness to the various authors consulted while writing this book. The opinions of their distinguished scholarly works have been incorporated into the book and acknowledged.

Dr Aminu Mohammed,

Department of Social Studies,Niger State College of Education, Minna.

FOREWORD

The renewed interest and the euphoria in ICT today might have been borne out of the fact that Nigeria does not want to lag in the global race that basking or being controlled by the upsurge of the ICT revolution in all aspects of life including Education. Many countries around the world have introduced Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into schools via different courses of action. Their use is also underlined by the Organization for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) (2001) as a necessity for improving the quality of teaching and learning. Technologies such as multimedia are seen to have special significance for teacher education because of the growing expectation that teachers must be technologically literate to provide relevant instruction in schools.

The Social Studies Education component of this book focused on the concept of multimedia, the element of multimedia resources, and the importance of multimedia resources in Social Studies instructional delivery, training and Staff Development.

To achieve the above objectives, the author of this book has discussed the application of multimedia resources in the classroom, Electronic Information Resources in Social Studies teaching. Information and Communication Technology in Social Studies Education and Models of Blended Learning in Teaching Social Studies.

After a critical review of the contents of this book, I do not doubt that beneficiaries will find good teaching material that will expose them classroom on how to access multimedia resources for effective and efficient teaching and learning of Social Studies Education in Nigerian schools.

Therefore, I recommend this textbook for students, teachers, researchers, private, and public administrators and other relevant stakeholders in the Education industry who are interested in teaching in the 21^st Century.

Professor, H. I. Bayero Dean, Faculty of EducationAhmadu Bello University, Zaria 08035930246/08026316081