Biology Education amidst National Challenges: Implication to Teaching and Learning

Sadoh F., Nwanegbo P. C. B.

Abstract


The impacts of National challenges on Biology education cannot be undermine as schools and other learning centers are usually affected in the midst of challenges. School closure which is a way of keeping students and teachers at home safe from some highly disturbing challenges can further deteriorate teaching and learning of biology. Biology is an essential subject for many fields of learning that contributes greatly to the technological growth of a nation, this fields of learning are medicine, nursing science, pharmacy, physiology among others and other entrepreneurship careers such as poultry farming, fisheries and snail farming, house care givers, sex educators etc. The paper explains biology, it also explains the role of biology education in national development. Based on the paper, National challenges are problems or difficulties face or experience by a country or nation, these challenges are corruptions, unemployment, armed conflict insurgency etc which could hinder or affects biology teaching and learning and education as a whole. The paper concludes that due to the impact of the recent national challenge (COVID-19 Pandemic) which led to closure of schools and other learning centers, a new teaching and learning platform was discover which Virtual learning platform is. The paper suggested that more teaching and learning platforms should be implemented and adopted for use in teaching and learning of biology to avoid lack of learning in times of any challenges.


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