Abstract This paper examines the concept of education and the practice of virtual education in Nigerian universities. The concept of education was analyzed and taken to mean all the activities that promote learning regardless of whether it takes place within or outside a school setting. The criteria for education were put forth to include any …
Education, Politics and Leadership: A Philosophical Analysis
AbstractThis paper critically analyzed the concepts of education, politics and leadership which are considered as sine qua non in our contemporary society. Education in any nation is an important national asset that transforms its citizens’ existence and as well renovates political, cultural, social and economic activities for rapid development. Education has the foremost objective which …
Philosophy of Education, Politics and Leadership in Nigeria
Abstract This paper discusses Philosophy of Education, politics and leadership in Nigeria. Philosophy of Education is always confronted with the problem of explaining the nature of man and his society. Hence, it is needed to put order, harmony and meaning to the different and conflicting issues that emerge in an effort to solve the problems …
Citizenship Education and Insecurity: A Philosophical Appraisal of the Nigerian Situation
Abstract Today, the issue of insecurity has become a topic on the lips of every Nigerian. The deteriorating security situation in Nigeria is worrisome and is probably the cause of endemic penury, high rate of unemployment, low industrial output, high inflation rate, deteriorating exchange rate, rising external debt and so on. It is clear that …
A Critical Appraisal of Virtual Teaching and Learning Vis-A-Vis Traditional Classroom Learning in Nigerian Public Universities
Abstract The attention and interest of education systems, especially at the university level, have been shifting, of recent, to virtual teaching and learning. This is a mode of learning that enables the teacher and students to interact and communicate without being physically present to each other. The age-long traditional classroom learning appears to be gradually …
How Social Media Redesigned the Nigerian Education System: A Philosophical Analysis
Abstract The paper “philosophical analysis of how social media redesigned education system in Nigeria” was focussed on the inclusion of social media in teaching and learning. In lieu of that, the researcher explained briefly what education and social media meant and the changes that occurred by the cooperation of social media in education. The researcher …
Knowledge Economy: Implications for Nigeria Education System
Abstract Knowledge economy has become more popular and inclusive in determining the economic prosperity and growth of nations not by supplanting industrial or resource economy but in globalizing knowledge about them and in the process revealing new techno-scientific approaches in their economic processes. This paper examines the nature of knowledge economy, the difference between information …
Revamping Indigenous Education and Afrocentric Curriculum for Effective Knowledge Economy in the 21st Century
Abstract Africa’s significant problem is economic. While this seems to ostensibly be only in terms of finance, it rather extends beyond that and permeates the process of knowledge generation. Globalization and the infusion of Western culture through Western education has afflicted Africa’s economy with a seemingly incurable malady. However, there is the neglect of localization, …
Education, Politics and Leadership: Re-Visiting Nigerian Experience
Abstract This paper analysed education, politics and leadership and tried to explore their interrelations. This is against the backdrop that they are commendatory concepts and enjoy wide usage by members of the public being very central to governance of the day from home to the larger society. It was established that they are all mutually …
Entrepreneurship Education as Panacea to Unemployment, Insecurity and Economic Challenges
Abstract This paper examined that entrepreneurship education is a panacea to existing unemployment, insecurity and economic problems that are menacing our society. It also argued that successful implementation of entrepreneurship education has the potentials of changing the mindset of teeming graduates towards becoming self-employed and self-reliant so as to be job creators than job seekers. …
