Revitalizing the Sokoto State Adult Education Programmes for Social, Political and Economic Development
Muhammad, Musa Usman
Department of Educational Foundations
Sokoto State University
Email: musamuhammad113@gmail.com
Abstract:
The need for revitalizing adult education programmes in Africa and Nigeria in particular become necessary because of the progressive poverty, insecurity, insufficient food production, technologically non-productive education systems and low literacy rates experienced by some of the African countries. The paper examined the goals of education in Nigeria and argued that, the present system of adult education in Nigeria may not lead the country to a rapid economic, social and political development. Whereas Nigeria has a literacy rate of fifty two percent as of 2006 and many among the African countries have literacy rates of less than fifty percent. This paper is advocating for restructuring adult education programmes to become effectively functional for a rapid and sustainable economic, social and political change. Descriptive survey was used to design the research. Population of the study comprised of adult learners within Sokoto Metropolis. Random purposive sampling technique was used to administer 240 questionaires to adult education programmes participants within Sokoto metropolis. Impact of Adult Education Programmes on Social Political and Economic Assessment Questionaire.(I.A.E.P.S.P.E.A.Q) was used to collect data. The data was analyzed using a simple descriptive statistics on SPSS software. The paper recommended the review of adult education curriculum and practice to suit the learning objectives of the learners and to meet up with the on-going need for rapid economic, social and political changes in Nigeria.
Keywords: Revitalizing, Adult Education Programmes, Social, Political, Economic, Development.
