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This study looks at the effect of child development and challenges facing teacher education in Nigeria. Teacher education is seen as the policies, procedures, and provision designed to equip teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the school, classroom and community. It has the potential to bring changes within educational systems that would shape the skills and knowledge of the child’s future and serves as key agents of change in transforming education and society to a better possible future for many organizations. Thus, teachers need a working knowledge of the principles of child development in order to master the skills that enable students to learn in high values, while, child development is a foundation principle of social development and its research has potential for translation into practical application for educational practice and to improve educational outcomes for children. Suggestions were made that teachers must help prepare students and developed children in order to participate as active citizens in a democratic society. Teachers should encourage every child to combine critical thinking with creative imagination in an effort to identify with and understand the lives, minds, and consciousness of human beings from the past and of our generation in the present. Also, there is need for classroom activities, social programmes in poor communities to provide numerous opportunities to encourage students to become active citizens. Conclusions were made that teachers and administrators must work with researchers to produce resources that have the greatest benefit for classroom practice.