Basic Education or Literacy'? Yes. In what Language'?
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Date
2002-06-06
Authors
Obashoro-John, O.A.
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Lagos Education Review
Abstract
Not all children of school age in Nigeria have access to school education. Not all those that have access complete their primary education. Those who complete their primary education can hardly read and understand adequately. Many of the adult Nigerians are illiterate in which the majority are women. This is the situation, despite previous efforts by the successive government towards mass education and literacy, One major problem in the past effort is the deliberate elevation of English Language fit the expense of Nigerian languages. For the future, one would expect fa see a systematic encouragement of teaching in Nigerian languages. These languages should be introduced as a medium of administration, so as to bring the administrator closer to his subject, thereby giving the masses the right to express themselves.
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Staff publications
Keywords
Literacy , Basic Education , Access , Language , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education