Enhancing Active Learning for Children with Visual Impairment in the Nigerian Basic Education Programme

Abstract

The paper attempts to provide an insight into how active learning can be enhanced for children with visual impairment as a way of improving their overall educational achievement. With its main focus on basic education which forms a major component of the educational reforms agenda in Nigerian education, the paper tried to identify the main thrust of the basic education programme, the basic characteristics of active learning, how active learning can be used to meet the educational needs of the visually impaired and some of" the problems that may be associated with active learning for this category of special needs children. It finally made some useful recommendations and suggestions on techniques and strategies that could be used to enhance active learning for the visually impaired with particular emphasis on the basic education programme in Nigeria.