Climate change and implications for sustainable senior secondary school (SSS) geography curriculum in Nigeria

Abstract

Teaching and learning about the subject, Geography, need to take cognizance of global warming and
climate change. The objective of this work is to look into the current syllabus of the SSS geography and
identify for attention, modules, topics and other items that must change in the face of global warming.
The SSS geography syllabuses were reviewed and so also the texts and other materials used for
teaching and learning about Geography. Subject teachers and examiners were interviewed on the
scope, content and what have been affected by the climate change in the physical environment. Climate
elements, vegetation, ecosystems and niches, agricultural practices, crop yields, rivers and their
seasonality behaviour, animal rearing and management, human behaviour and others call for attention
in the syllabuses. There are some radical departures in details found in texts and examined, and the
actual. The syllabuses must identify with those salient aspects of the subject whose specific content
need to be modified and/or changed and adjusted for sustainable SSS geography syllabus. Elaborate
environmental education is suggested.