STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD LEARNING CHEMISTRY EDUCATION AND ITS NEEDS FOR EDUCATION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY, KANO

ABSTRACT This study investigated students’ perceptions toward learning Chemistry education and its needs for education sustainable development in Northwest University, Kano. Three objectives guided the study; to find out the demographic information of Chemistry undergraduate students of Northwest University, Kano, to find out student's perceptions toward learning Chemistry education and find out student's perceptions on the needs of learning Chemistry education for Educational Sustainable Development (ESD) in Northwest University, Kano. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The population of this study was 1,124 undergraduate Chemistry students and sample size of 291 was selected through stratified sampling technique. Chemistry Undergraduate Students’ Questionnaire on Educational Sustainable Development (CUSQESD)was used, validated by the supervisor and reliability coefficient of 0.85 was obtained. The study found out that, level 300 female Chemistry undergraduate students greatly participated in learning Chemistry education for education sustainable development, there is positive perception of Chemistry Education among undergraduate students, despite its difficulty and too many concepts that affect their performances, it also helps them learn better and that, the undergraduate students show positive feelings towards learning Chemistry education for their personal development, their beliefs have the potential to facilitate Chemistry education toward education sustainable development, they also perceives learning Chemistry Education as too time consuming and they see Chemistry education teachers as good that helps to achieve better toward their sustainable development. Based on the findings above, the following recommendations were made: Kano State Government should put in more effort to support every child since they are equally needed to participate fully in education sustainable development. This should be done through implementing policies that are already in existence. And that, attendance should be made compulsory for all undergraduate students in Chemistry education in Northwest University, Kano. The management of Chemistry education department through its teachers should encourage active student’s participation in class work activities by adopting instructional materials-interactions among undergraduate and that, the university should frequently design workshops, seminars, conferences or orientation courses on Chemistry education to acquaint the teachers with the latest development in the field of Chemistry thereby enhancing undergraduate students’ perceptions toward their sustainable development in Northwest University, Kano.