Abstract
The study determined the effects of group investigation and jurisprudential inquiry of social interaction instructional models on adolescents’ knowledge of voter education related contents in senior secondary school Government curriculum. The ultimate aim was to curb voter apathy among young citizens. The design was Quasi-experimental non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group design. The sample for the study consisted of 165 SS II students drawn from public secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state Nigeria. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, the intact classes from the schools were assigned to the two experimental groups. Data collected using Multiple Choice Government Achievement Test (MCGAT) were analyzed employing mean and standard deviation for the research questions and ANCOVA for testing the hypothesis at P < 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that group investigation and jurisprudential inquiry models enhanced students’ acquisition of knowledge in voter education related contents; although group investigation seemed more efficacious. There was also a statistical difference in the mean achievement scores of students with group investigation performing significantly better. These findings were exhaustively discussed with the far-reaching recommendations on how to improve voter education knowledge and potentials of young ones as future adult citizens.
Highlights
The incidence of low voter turnout in some democracies all over the world in developing countries has remained a contentious issue to sustainable democracy and proper representation
Mean gain scores of 20.12 and 15.92 for the students exposed to group investigation model and jurisprudential Inquiry model respectively shows that students exposed to group investigation model had higher post-test mean achievement than those exposed to jurisprudential Inquiry model
The result indicates that the two instructional models, GIM and Jurisprudential inquiry model (JIM) were effective as the mean achievement scores of the students in voter education related contents went from 16.42 and 15.84 in the pre-test to 36.54 and 31.76 for GIM and JIM in the post-test respectively
Summary
The incidence of low voter turnout in some democracies all over the world in developing countries has remained a contentious issue to sustainable democracy and proper representation. The emergence of democracy in developing countries such as Nigeria was an aftermath of the decline of military rule and it is very sacrosanct in the right choices of the leaders by the people. While the voting age population remained higher than the number of registered voters across the election years, the turnout does not reflect the number of registered voters as it continued to retrogress. This could be an indication that the future of democracy in Nigeria may be bleak
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