Teachers’ Perception of the Strengths and Challenges of Interaction-Discussion- Strategy in Social Studies Classrooms in Oyo State, Nigeria

This study was conducted to investigate social studies teachers’ perception of the strengths and challenges of interaction-discussion-strategy in public junior secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. The participants were 760 Social Studies teachers from 360 junior secondary schools. The instruments used were Perception of the Strength and Challenges of IDS (r=0.81), Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings showed that teachers perceived the strength of the strategy to be its potential in promoting positive interaction among learners, while the perceived changes were that overcrowded classroom and dearth of teaching resources may render the strategy unusable.