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Amidst the myriad challenges that threaten Nigeria's educational system is the declining learning outcomes of students across schools in Nigeria. Identifying and mitigating the challenges and deploying global innovative best practices into Nigeria's educational system may provide the needed solution. Therefore, the impact of climate change (CC) on teachers' efficiency, educational resources and students' learning optimization in Lagos State was examined. A mixed research method, involving quantitative and qualitative methods, was adopted for the study. CC learning optimizations (CCLO) questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. Random sampling technique was used to select 480 respondents for the study. Frequency counts with percentages and a t-test statistical analysis were used to analyses the data. Result showed that CC effects like heat waves, high rainfall and flooding can threaten teachers' classroom efficiency, and learning resources and thus negatively influence students' learning outcomes. Excessive heat due to global warming could affect students' comprehension and retention. Extreme temperature and rainfall experienced in early school year can cause few years of schooling later in life. There was no significant difference in perception of impact of CC on student learning optimization based on gender (t-test). It was concluded that CC affects teachers' efficiency, learning resources, and students' learning optimization. Addressing the problem of CC can support teachers' efficiency and improve students' learning outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Free-choice learning and, derivatively, free-choice environmental learning emerges as a powerful vehicle for supporting diversity in learning styles (Falk and Dierking, 2002). In this article, I argue that free-choice environmental learning holds great potential for enabling us to understand what is at stake in environmental learning and thus help us build a sustainable future. I examine the different informal learning contexts for children, home (family and play), museums, zoos, nature parks and wilderness, among many others, and offer an explanation for how learning occurs in these settings, and how such domains or sectors can contribute to free-choice environmental learning. This article also examines the nature of environmental learning in free choice settings to establish a connection with stages of childhood development. In the final section of this article, I draw on these examples to discuss research issues that emerge within various free-choice settings.

The study investigated Nigerian education undergraduates' perception of environmental sustainability in southwestern Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design, and the population comprised 300 final-year education students selected randomly for the study. The study employed a self-developed questionnaire using a google form titled perception of Nigerian education undergraduates on environmental sustainability in southwestern Nigeria (QPNEUESSN). In the study, the instrument’s validity was set at 0.85 Cronbach alpha, while data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation with a benchmark of 2.50. The findings showed that undergraduates in southwestern Nigeria universities are knowledgeable about environmental problems such as pollution, ecosystems, and depletion of natural resources. The study further revealed topics like deforestation and soil degradation in the curriculum and adequate facilities to ensure quality assurance of environmental sustainability in southwestern Nigerian universities. The study recommended that environmental sustainability be a professional course in the curriculum rather than a peripheral topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The latest form of violence in the Niger Delta, i.e hostage taking by militant male youth, reproduces the "logic of capital" that characterizes state and corporate violence. This logic of capital can be explicated in contrast to a relational account of community that can ground alternative logics of care. Nigeria'soil policy led to drilling impacts including pollution, social costs, and corruption. The failure of organized resistance to these developments produced widespread disillusionment in the 1990s,to which male youth responded with militancy and profiteering. In contrast, women's organized resistance practices are "logics of care" consistent with distributive, recognition, intergenerational, and restorative justice as well as effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about the importance of African Environmental Philosophy. Topics discussed include understanding the human relation to co-habitant life, nature, and environments; tensions emerged between indigenous knowledge and globally destructive, colonizing logics of capital; and traditional sacred places and forests may have increased interest in environmental issues.