School Pedagogical Variables and National Development: Exploring the Connection

This paper emphasizes the contributions of school pedagogy to national development. It stresses the fact that a nation develops in relation to its achievements in education with reference to school pedagogical variables such as instructional materials and educational facilities. In as much as the attainment of education goals and national development cannot be divorced from one another, the form, art and practice of teaching-learning activities is important to human capital development and societal development. Hence, this paper explains the state of school pedagogical variables and the need to improve on its condition in Nigerian secondary schools. The study therefore suggests, among other, an improved funding for education to enhance adequate supply of educational facilities and instructional materials, deliberate efforts at practical teaching by teachers, good maintenance culture by schools, seminars and workshops to improve teacher competences.