Challenges Encountered In Acquiring Material Resources For History Instruction In Nigerian Secondary Schools: Integration Of ICT As A Mitigating Factor

Abstract

This paper discussed the constraints that history teachers and students encounter at the secondary school of teaching and learning in the acquisition of resources for the purpose of history instruction and how ICT as an instructional material can help mitigate this challenge. History is one of the difficult subjects to teach and learn because some of the events a history teacher is expected to teach the students happened years ago or even contemporary history where the events do happen without the teacher and students being there. The paper noted some of the challenges to history instruction to include the abstract nature of history, lack available books or information, lack of adequate history teachers and further discussed the role of ICT as a way of surmounting these bottlenecks to the teaching and learning of the discipline. Suggestions such as the recruitment of adequate teachers, provision of well equipped libraries and integration of ICT for the purpose of history instruction could assist in mitigating this instructional challenge.