SCIENTIFIC ATTRIBUTES OF PHYSICS EDUCATION FOR TRANSFORMATION, REFORMATION AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN A DEPRESSED ECONOMY

Abstract

The negligence meted on affective learning domain has prevented the realization of the intended objectives of the senior secondary school physics curriculum in Nigeria. This negligence was markedly manifested from the mid-1970s and had often and now thrown Nigeria into economic recession which is foreseeably slipping into depression, upon the gradually growing loss of concern for moral obligations beginning from the level of government to family households. How the scientific attributes of physics education can be harnessed and channeled for transformation, reformation and moral development of adult persons and youths in a depressed economy is now the challenge that occupies the centre stage of this study.