The Development of Text Material for Advanced Risk Management and Insurance Courses: Technology to the Rescue

Adelman, Saul W.; Dorfman, Mark S.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6296.2000.tb00020.x

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“…The lack of suitable study materials has frequently been a topic to discuss for several years at the global level. This hinders genuine transformative changes that ought to have had been made to match the professional financial services market to the curriculum dedicated to teaching, analysing, and researching the insurance subject (Adelman & Dorfman, 2000). The question as to the effectiveness of insurance teaching, learning and literacy in secondary schools becomes imperative, hence many students are yet to embrace the subject at the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination.…”

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Teachers’ Attitudes and Insurance Curriculum: Empirical Evidence from Senior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria

Ajemunigbohun,

Banjo

2022

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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Education is the most veritable and viable option for national development and redress. Its existence guarantees the nation’s building and sustenance. This study evaluated the effects of teachers’ attitudes on insurance curriculum in senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design cum survey method. A structured questionnaire was employed for data gathering. The questionnaire consisted of the research variables such as teachers’ personalities, teachers’ perceptions, teachers’ learning capacities, and insurance curriculum. The study adopted a multistage sampling technique. A sample size of 147 was drawn from teachers in Senior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. Research hypotheses were tested using simple regression techniques. The study confirmed the strategic influence of teachers’ attitudes on insurance curriculum in Lagos State. The study contributed significantly to knowledge by adding to the growing literature in teachers’ attitudes and insurance curriculum. School administrators are advised to move swiftly in their quest to provide enlightenment insurance curriculum to teachers in senior secondary schools in Nigeria. Schools Administrators in collaboration with teachers should endeavor to continually drive insurance curriculum awareness and thus ensure to entrench insurance in their respective curricula.

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