Youth Empowerment for Personal Development: The Role of the Social Studies Teacher among the Youth in Atwima Nwabiagya North District, Ghana

Abstract

The need for a subject that embodies the national philosophy and promotes people's values, norms and beliefs has attracted efforts, commitment and resources of nations the world over. This study was conducted to assess youth empowerment for personal development: the role of the social studies teacher in Atwima Nwabiagya North District. The researchers employed a mixed research design approach with purposive sampling technique used to sample 39 teacher respondents. From the results, 18% of the study participants rated their knowledge on social studies as excellent. It was showed that, 66% of the study participants said they have acquired the needed skills during their training to impart knowledge to the youth as a Social Studies teachers while 34% of the study participants said they have not acquired the needed skills during their training to impart knowledge to the youth as Social Studies teachers. All the respondents (100%) said the coverage of the syllabus was good. And 86% of the study participants said the current syllabi were good to empower the youth in Ghana. All 39 (100%) of the study participants identified classroom based learning and 46% of the study participants identified practical based learning as the kinds of training they received during their school days. The researchers concluded that, respondent's knowledge on social studies was found to be adequate. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended that, more teachers be empowered in Social Studies, to assist empower the youth to acquire the needed constructs of social studies.