USING TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD RESILIENCE IN NIGERIAN CHILDREN: PATHWAY FROM VIOLENCE TIME

Abstract

This paper focus on the use of technology to build resilience in Nigerian children, the study delves into this seemly neglected area so as to bring up healthy individual whose intellectual wherewithal could help surmount violence and make them be useful to themselves and their environment. In contemporary Nigeria, violence has taken over the better way of solving and resolving issues but the use of some technological advance programmes could help as a way in which school children and internally displaced children can imbibe good habits rather than involving in juvenile delinquencies that can destroy their future. In the field of Science and technology, resilience can be used as path through which already internalized antisocial behavior could be addressed in children by the introduction of videos and/or games. It is discovered in the course of this study that with children in internally displaced camps (i.e. ID camps) Nigeria would be in serious anarchy if children in the camps who have lost the sense of etiquette are reintegrated into the macro-society without psychic rehabilitation. This can be done through video programmes that inculcate peaceful coexistence as against violence. This study recommends that rather than feeding children alone in ID camps, they should be urgently rehabilitated through technological programmes that extol virtues and conviviality over violence.