Uwaoma Akwu Ude Ph.D.
Department of Social Studies
Ebonyi State College of Education Ikwo
Ebonyi State, Nigeria
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Emeka Nwachukwu (Ph.D.)
Department of Education Foundation
Ebonyi State College of Education Ikwo
Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Abstract.
Adult and non formal education was incorporated in the Nigeria policy on education to help reduce illiteracy rate in Nigeria and help upgrade the knowledge of literate adults on recent development in science and technology. It is against this backdrop that the researchers carried out this study to find out the extent adult education programme have been implemented in Afikpo Educational Zone. Two research questions and two hypothesis were posed to guide the study, the research questions were analyzed with mean scores while T-test were used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The research was a survey design which had a population of (819) eight hundred and nineteen and a sample of (225) respondents randomly drawn from public secondary school teachers. The researcher developed a questionnaire which was tested and re-tested to 30 respondents outside the selected area and the result was collected and analyzed with Pearson moment correlation coefficient and had a reliability of 0.82 which was suitable for the study. The findings showed that adult education has assisted in educating the adults and that the centers are organized properly like regular schools. The study recommended that the Federal, State and Local Government should assist in all ramification in ensuring that he programme is sustained and also that qualified teachers should be employed to teach in all the centers nationwide.
Keyword: adult education, implementation, evaluation Mass-literacy, continuing education.
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