IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING VISUAL ARTS IN NIGERIAN BASIC EDUCATION SCHOOLS
IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING VISUAL ARTS IN NIGERIAN BASIC EDUCATION SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: The Unesco institute for statistics defines Basic education as a whole range of educational activities taking place in various settings, that aim to meet basic learning needs as defined in the World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990). According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) standard, basic education comprises primary education (first stage of basic education) and lower secondary education (second stage). This is the formative stage of education and so extreme care needs be taken in teaching and steering children of this age which most likely would be roughly between five and thirteen years. Most schools do not follow the right way of teaching visual arts in these basic schools especially when they lack the right trained manpower to cope with the subject and so it is the desire of this writer to proffer solutions to this problem in this aspect of basic education. The objective of this research is to compartmentalize and bring to the fore how visual art should be taught at this level of education. The methods of carrying out this research are both pedagogical, descriptive and quasi-survey with a touch of literature review and at the end, it was found out that various classes have their various methods of imparting knowledge of the visual arts on the pupils and students and that teaching of this class is not without its attendant problems. Solutions were proffered, conclusions were drawn and recommendations made.

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