Authors : Babson Ajibade, Wole Oloidi and Emekpe Okokon-Ita Omon
Abstract: Most secondary schools in Calabar do not do fine arts as a subject and it was difficult to get pupils to feed the fine arts programme of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Faculty of Environmental Science, The Polytechnic Calabar (POLYCAL). Since, they did not study fine arts in their curriculum, secondary school pupils in Calabar were neither interested in fine arts as a subject nor were they able to get admission into POLYCAL. This study sort to use familiar African socio-cultural and environmental materials to generate illustrations for use in teaching secondary school students to appreciate fine arts as a subject. At the end of 1 year of the project, pupils became interested in fine arts, the secondary schools included fine arts in their curriculums and the following year’s admission data for the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, POLYCAL, indicated a 166.7% rise in student intake.
Babson Ajibade, Wole Oloidi and Emekpe Okokon-Ita Omon, 2012. Africa-Based Illustrations as Important Educational Tools for Nigerian Students. Environmental Research Journal, 6: 14-18.