Abstract
This study investigates the attitude of Senior High School students towards the teaching and learning of geography in the Cape Coast Metropolis. To achieve this, a quantitative approach using descriptive survey design was employed. A sample of 120 students studying geography were selected from four (4) Senior High Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study employed purposive and simple random sampling procedure to select respondents from the schools for the study. Questionnaire (close-ended) were used, and data were coded and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 to produce inferential (means and standard deviation). The study revealed that students perceive geography as difficult to learn and understand because the geography subject involves a lot of drawings and terminologies, etcetera. It was again, unraveled that students have positive attitude towards the teaching and learning of geography. The findings of the study revealed that reading materials such as textbooks, handouts etc. are used by the geography teachers in teaching. It was therefore, recommended that teachers in the various schools should motivate their students to take geography lessons seriously and study it well, as it could be of relevance to them in the near future. Government and other stakeholders should provide schools with modern teaching and learning resources so as to help teachers to explain very well Geography concepts to the understanding of their students. Keywords: Geography, Students, Cape Coast, Attitude, Teaching, Learning DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-34-01 Publication date: December 31 st 2020
Highlights
The student is one of the elements that are indispensable to education
The students indicated that Geography helps them to know what is happening in other parts of the world which agrees with Amannor’s (2004) study
The study explains that geography helps students know what is happening in other parts of the world apart from their place of residence or countries, the relationship between human activities and the environment is clearly identified in geographic study
Summary
The student is one of the elements that are indispensable to education. Every student, in the process of education, is an individual; must be treated as such. Individuals with different biological structures and who come from diverse environments naturally have different points of view about events and comment on them differently These differences result from various factors such as their past experiences, their interests and abilities, the way they learn etc. One of the major characteristics of modern education is that it is student-centered. As is clear from the explanations, students’ abilities, expectations from education, past experiences among others are some of the most effective elements in education. These features are quite effective on the kind of attitude that a student takes to a particular lesson
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