THE ROLE OF QUALITY TEXTBOOKS IN EFFECTIVE LEARNING: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

This study investigated the role of quality textbooks in effective learning with a focus on a systematic literature review. It explored textbooks availability, challenges and the way forward in Nigerian schools to assess the degree of their essentiality as learning tools in meeting national educational policy objectives. Textbooks serve several important purposes such as a good source of information, orderliness of topics, a wide coverage of the syllabus among others. The challenges explored are expensive cost of textbooks, students’ overdependency on textbooks, cultural insensitivity of textbooks, difficulty in comprehension of the text among others. Sequel to the challenges, there is absolute need for a periodic review of learning tools that comply with the standard to actualize the curriculum goals. It is recommended among others that government should provide adequate fund that will enhance adequate provision of textbooks in schools for students, parents should ensure that they provide financial support for textbooks and local authors should be encouraged to write textbooks using the language and cultural background of the environment in a clear content, free of ambiguity