Children’s Learning Style: Implication for Academic Performance and Career Inclination in Nigeria Secondary School.

This study examined children’s learning styles and the implication on academic performance and future career inclination in Nigeria secondary schools. It renders helpful hand in identifying different learning styles among secondary school students in the study area by integrating findings from other studies. In line with the cover extent of the study, four objectives were formulated which are to: identify children’s learning styles in Nigeria secondary school; determine the impact of learning styles on children’s academic performance; examine the factors influencing learning styles and academic performance and assess the management strategies of children’s learning styles and career choice in Nigeria in order to guide the research findings. The study identified solitary, visual, aural social, kinaesthetic and rote learning styles to be most evident among secondary school children in Nigeria and established that these determine the children’s academic performance in the school with respect to subject based assessment pointing that children who are sociable tend to perform higher in subjects related to drama, arts and literary studies and that children’s subject grades in school and the overall academic success are favoured by the kind of learning styles they adopted. The systematic literature review method in which previous studies that had been conducted on learning styles, academic performance and career inclination of secondary school children were studied and findings from such studies were integrated to achieve a logical inference upon which recommendations are made. The systematic review method adopted involved sourcing for related studies from the database of Google scholars, ERIC, Scopus, routlege, sage and others and downloading them for review. Methodologies such as sorting and extraction of related studies were performed such that the most related research were reviewed for this study. Also the inclusion and exclusion criteria were used to compile studies that were based on children learning, academic performance and career inclination or trajectories in secondary school with special concentration on Nigeria space and removing such that were not conducted in and on Nigeria with the aim of ensuring relevance, validity and reliability thereby minimizing errors. A total of twenty related journals were used for this research and their finding were harmonized to form the conclusion of this study. Evidence from this study established that the family pedigree or parental role, school and intelligence level influence children learning and career preference in the study area. The study emphasises the need for adequate management of children’s learning needs by the parents and school stakeholders to inform optimum academic performance. Given that individual learning styles inform self-discovery, individualized learning this study therefore concludes that the learning styles adopted by children in Nigeria secondary schools determine their academic achievement and the career inclination.

Academic, Career, learning, performance, Trajectories

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