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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The
outbreak of mysterious pneumonia caused by a novel corona virus vis-à-vis
Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) began in Wuhan China in the
Month of December of the year 2019. SARS-Cov-2 exhibited person to person
transmission of what became labeled as COVID-19 which quickly led to a World
Wide (WW) outbreak of potentially fatal pneumonia and was declared as a
pandemic in March 11, 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO). It has spread
(WW) with over 174 million infected cases and more than 3.79 million deaths as
at (June 11, 2021).This paper is therefore centered on the repositioning of
primary education for sustainability in the post covid-19 era. The concept of
primary education as perceived by various authors was brought to bear as well
as the objectives of primary education as stipulated in the National Policy on
Education. The paper considered the different challenges of primary education
such as; covid-19 pandemic which led to lockdown and closure of schools,
insecurity, food insecurity, inadequate competent and qualified teachers, poor
funding among others. The repositioning of primary education was highlighted
based on the identified challenges/problems. This include the following;
establishment of good safety and health habits through vigorous compliance with
covid-19 protocols by wearing nose masks, face mask, practicing regular hand
washing and maintaining of social distance
in the schools; equitable and adequate funding of primary education to check
future interruption of the primary education sector etc.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2023 pp. 216-220