TY  - JOUR
T1  - Africa-Based Illustrations as Important Educational Tools for Nigerian Students
AU - Ajibade, Babson AU - Oloidi, Wole AU - Okokon-Ita Omon, Emekpe 
JO  - Environmental Research Journal
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 14
EP  - 18
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1994-5396
DO  - erj.2012.14.18
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=erj.2012.14.18
KW  - African social culture
KW  -environment
KW  -visual educative illustrations
KW  -curriculum
KW  -appreciate
KW  -Nigeria
AB  - 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.
ER  -