Awareness Level of Sustainable Development Goals among Social Science Education Pre-Service Teachers in Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State

Abstract

Given the important role that quality teacher preparation programme has in realizing any laudable developmental programme (including the sustainable development goals), this study assessed the awareness level of Social Science Education pre-service teachers towards the attainment of sustainable development goals. A descriptive survey research design was adopted using a proportional sampling technique to select fifty five 300 level and sixty six 400 level Social Science Education undergraduates in the Department of Social Science Education, Faculty of Education, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. A four point Likert scale research instrument titled “Questionnaire on Awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (QASDGs)” was developed for use in collecting the data for the study. The face and content validity of the instrument was established by two experts in Test and Measurement in the Department of Educational Foundations, Niger Delta University. Test-retest was adopted to check for the consistency of the instruments which gave reliability coefficient of 0.78. The data collected were analysed using Arithmetic mean to answer research question one while independent t-test statistic was adopted to test the two null hypotheses. The findings revealed, among others, that the awareness level of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among Social Science Education pre-service teachers was moderate. Other findings were that the awareness level of Goal number 15 was low with a mean less than 2.5.  It was on the basis of the findings that the study recommended that courses in Social Science Education should incorporate elements of Goal No 15