Psychosocial Educational and Economic Impact of COVID-19: Implication for Girl Child Education through Social Studies in Northeast Nigeria

Abstract

The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the psychosocial educational and economic impact of COVID-19 and implication for girl child education through social studies in Northeast Nigeria. COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a global health problem toward the end of 2019. It has presented attendant consequences on human health and the global economy. Families’ socioeconomic status cannot afford the psychosocial and educational needs, which later affects the psychological development of children. Psychosocial means the close associations between psychological aspects of the human experience and the wider social experience and then psychosocial education is the term used to refer to awareness regarding unhealthy relationships and maladaptive behaviors among individuals and the families. COVID-19 pandemic affected almost 1.6 billion students across 190 countries of the world, representing 94% of the world’s school going children do to school closures, Nigeria is inclusive. A girls’ child is biological female offspring from birth to eighteen years of age. This period is made up of infancy, childhood, and early and late adolescence age. As a problems solving and value-laden discipline in it nature, social studies education are school subject that could be used in addressing the challenges of psychosocial and psychological problems caused by COVID-19 to individual’s girls’ child.