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History of Education in Nigeria (Paperback)
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History of Education in Nigeria (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Originally published in 1974, a comprehensive history of Nigerian
Education, from early times right through to the time of
publication, had long been needed by all concerned with Education
in Nigeria, students, teachers and educational administrators. No
one was better qualified than Professor Fafunwa to provide such a
book, and in doing so he gave due emphasis to the beginnings of
Education in its three main stages of indigenous, Muslim and
Christian Education. Nigerian Education had been considered all too
often as a comparatively recent phenomenon, but this book points
out from the start that 'Education is as old as Man himself in
Africa' and that both Islam and Christianity were comparative
newcomers in the field. A historical treatment of these three
strands which have combined to make up the modern Educational
system was vital to a clear understanding of what was needed for
the future, and most of the first half of the book is concerned
with these Educational beginnings. The imposing of a foreign
colonial system on this framework did not always lead to a happy
fusion of the systems, and the successes and the failures are
examined in detail. There was no shortage of documentary evidence
in the form of reports and statistics during the decades prior to
publication, but this evidence was frequently scattered and
inaccessible to the student, so that the author's careful selection
of key evidence and reports, often drawn from his own personal
experience, will be invaluable for those wishing to trace the
development of Education in Nigeria up to the early 1970s. A
knowledge of the history and development of the Nigerian Education
system, of the numerous and intensely varied personalities and
beliefs which have combined and often conflicted to shape it, is
indispensable to all students in colleges and universities studying
to become teachers. It is this knowledge that Professor Fafunwa set
out to provide, drawing on his wide experience as teacher writer
and educationalist.
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