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    Dying Education: Necessary Reformation. the Nigerian Case
    Dying Education: Necessary Reformation. the Nigerian Case
    Dying Education: Necessary Reformation. the Nigerian Case
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    Dying Education: Necessary Reformation. the Nigerian Case

    By Ezeoke, Alphonsus Emeka

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    This book is an educational piece and a thoroughly researched contribution in the 21st century Nigeria. I recommend it to all lovers of education. The Education Ministers, Boards and other relevant bodies have to read this. University Dons would find Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Alphonsus Ezeokes book exceptionally useful. It is a handbook for todays students.
    -Very Rev. Msgr. Prof. J.P.C. Nzomiwu
    (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria)

    Straddling two cultures, Fr. Ezeoke not only exposes the urgent need for educational reform in Nigeria, but he also advances the strategies that are needed to reach under the current system and lift it up. Knowing the historicity, Fr. Ezeokes careful assessment calls for action and boldly determines that such an undertaking is key to Nigerian growth, unity and global interaction.
    -Cathy B. Grandjean, MA BCC
    (Fmr) Director of Chaplaincy, Catholic Health Services of Long Island

    I write to congratulate Rev. Dr. Alphonsus Ezeoke for this unique 21st Century contribution to the field of education. While he promoted positive and optimistic concern to educational growth in general, he equally got to the root of the dilemma, illusions, presumptions, ideologies and projections that impact negatively on its attainment. I highly recommend this masterpiece to the educational system in Nigeria, especially to everyone who is conscious to make his/her educational journey a success story.
    -Anthony O. Nwachukwu, PhD, Psy.D
    (Prof. of Counseling Psychology and West African Studies)
    Chair, PhD Defense Panel, NY

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 6, 2011
    ISBN9781462051601
    Dying Education: Necessary Reformation. the Nigerian Case
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    Ezeoke, Alphonsus Emeka

    Alphonsus Emeka Ezeoke is a priest. He has served the Church in many capacities at home and abroad. He is experienced in administration and social fields. He has travelled wide. As a scholar, he acquired Degrees in various fields - Philosophy, Theology, Public Administration and Education. He is a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) with the NACC, a Professional Body in the U.S.A. He is also a PhD holder in Educational Leadership, Administration & Policy from Fordham University New York.

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      Dying Education - Ezeoke, Alphonsus Emeka

      Contents

      Acknowledgement

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter One

      Confused Situation/Position of Education

      i. The tripartite squabble, the metamorphosis

      ii. Certificate Syndrome

      iii. Online Academic Business

      iv. No Money no Education

      v. The Universal Basic Education (UBE)—

      re UPE, 6-3-3-4 education system

      Chapter Two

      Handicap of Today’s Education

      i. Establishment of schools—poor equipment and staff, religious battle, political egoism, good intention—poor personnel and poor execution

      ii. Understaffing, product of institutions,

      staff aberrations

      iii. Under funding of schools/institutions, infrastructural problems

      iv. Low salary structure, no teacher incentive,

      lack of teacher education

      v. Lack of keen interest by schools/institutions stakeholders—govt., churches, private bodies

      vi. Cultism in schools, inability of government/school administration/parents to stop the practice

      vii. Western brain drain

      viii. Misplaced priorities, literacy and

      community education

      ix. Endemic corruption

      x. Crisis of poverty

      Chapter Three

      Balancing Education Ineffectiveness,

      need for reformation

      i. Strict regulation on educational system, discipline

      ii. Not only consumers but producers

      iii. Ability to fight odds in the society

      iv. Accepting knowledge not just money as power, education paves the way

      v. Advancement in all spheres of societal biddings/endeavours—education, science, law, medicine, media and relationship, etc

      vi. Patriotic orientation, changing value system

      Evaluation

      About the Author

      References

      Dedication

      To the growth of education in Nigeria and to all lovers of education, especially the Youth and Children who struggle to learn and be educated.

      Acknowledgement

      I thank God who made it possible for me to have the decorum to write this book and who has continued to be with his unworthy servant. I want to thank my siblings for their continued support and exemplary Christian life. To my mom, you are like an angel to us, may God continue to guide you. I thank you mom. To my late father Sylvester Enendu Ezeoke (KSM—Eziokwu bu Ndu) who sacrificed all he had for the education of his children, may God reward you with eternal bliss? I miss you.

      To my bishop, Most Rev. Dr. Paulinus C. Ezeokafor, thank you for your support and the opportunity of time for my sabbatical leave. I want to thank Most Rev. Dr. Simon A. Okafor (Bishop Emeritus of Awka) for his support and encouragement. To Mrs. Cathy Grandjean MA BCC (erstwhile Director, Catholic Health Services of Long Island), and Rev. Fr. Polycarp C. Nnajiofor PhD, thank you for taking the pains to proof read my work and being there when I needed your attention. To Prof Gerald Cattaro, thank you for the Foreward to this book and for your good disposition. Thank you Very Rev. Msgr. J.P.C. Nzomiwu for the comment at the back of the book. I want to thank my colleagues in Long Island New York Rev. Fr Benet Uwasomba PhD and Rev Fr. Anthony Nwachukwu PhD for their support and good working relationship. To my good friends, thank you for being supportive and critical.

      To all lovers of good education, be not disillusioned but continue with the knowledge and the information you have to better the world. Life is a continuum and could be made better with our contributions at this moment in history.

      God bless you all

      Emeka A. Ezeoke (Fr.)

      Foreword

      The struggle for proper education is a global concern as the international sphere and community of nations continues to be linked to one another whether the nation is one which is highly developed or still struggling to develop itself. Thus the struggle for proper education in Nigeria becomes a concern for all interested in the promotion of free societies. The struggle in Nigeria for educational equity and excellence is richly depicted in this elegant tome by Alphonsus Emeka Ezeoke. It is a well-heeled journey enabling the reader to investigate, explore and form judgements as to the development and practice of instruction in a nation which is rich in cultural constructs integral to education in any society yet a country which is bankrupt in models of accessible education for all children. This is self evident as he develops the thesis to promote necessary educational reform in his home country of Nigeria, a nation which engages in constant educational debates.

      The particular style of writing pays attention to historical development allowing the reader to enjoy an anthropologically exploration of education in Nigeria revealing layer upon layer of complexity thus simplifying what would normally be for the first time student of Nigerian education a labyrinth. Dr. Ezeoke not only examines the ontology related to education in his homeland but the axiology of educational development thus providing the reader with a scholarly and serious work. Dr Ezeoke takes us to a place which is at first uncomfortable exploring social justice issues as he addresses the various problems inherent in a system which is plagued by tribalism and territorialism. Power who possesses it and how it is wielded seems to be at the heart of the challenge to the educational venue in Nigeria. Nigerian nation seems to be encoded by the complexities of imperialism which survived by encouraging existing historical feuds of various indigenous cultures against each other thus pitting brother against brother.

      Dr Alphonsus Emeka Ezeoke received his formal training at Fordham University in New York, a Jesuit institution of Higher education. His major concentration was on Educational policy particularly as it pertains to developing nations. His studies included the publication of a thesis on comparative governance structure of schools office in United States and Nigerian education, allowing him the privilege to gain academic authority on this topic.

      It is my hope that all who read what is contained in the chapters become agents of educational reform and change not only for Nigeria but for developing nations. The struggle for those engaged in the educational reform movements are not struggles of isolation but struggles of community to bring the world together so that all children are afforded the proper means to liberation and cultural Identity which is the power of education. Dying is only meaningful if there is a resurrection.

      Prof. Dr. Gerald M. Cattaro

      Chair

      Educational Leadership Administration Policy

      Graduate School of Education

      Fordham University NY, USA

      Introduction

      Education in Nigerian is crumbling. It is sad to say this of a country with personalities of repute in academic, political, science and social fields. What has actually gone wrong in the Nigerian polity? The dying education has affected Nigeria greatly to an extent that death of education is imminent and the collapse of the nation not too far. The only recourse to revive this pending danger is reformation of the education sector and good leadership.

      Education is a gift to humanity, bringing minds together in knowledge, understanding and operations. Education is significant to the development of the self, promotion of knowledge, skills acquisition, value orientation, more so, growth of a country and necessary for global interaction. The fruits of education have led to information age, securing order in the world and constant conquering of the universe. ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’ said Nelson Mandela. Education disposes the individual minds to learn, meet, grow, criticize, develop, accept, resolve, agree, build on research and relate with the other person, community, society, and the international body. To neglect education in any country is to deprive the country of life sustenance. A nation pays dearly when the education sector is not properly constituted, managed and funded. The lack of education is the lack of information, economic, political, social, and human development in any government or country. Education remains the bedrock to all successes, be it personal, group, community, government or nation.

      Education in Nigeria cannot be complete without some historical background of the country. Education the way it is today in Nigeria is imported; it is not indigenous to the nation. This does not remove the fact that traditional education is gradually finding its place in Nigeria. It goes with the saying that when cultures meet, a cultural contact is made and cultural change evolves in the process with modification to the status quo. The greatest tool to development is education and this tool has been used by many to achieve their stated goals. Fafunwa, A. Babs (1995) accedes to the fact that, every society, whether simple or complex, has its own system for training and educating its youth, and education for the good life has been one of the most persistent concerns of men throughout history (p. 1). One laments the deplorable level to which Nigerian education has degenerated to, beginning with the failure of educational system to its infrastructural decay, under funding, unqualified teachers and understaffing of schools/institutions, lack of academic facilities/equipments and no proper research facilities mingled with high rate of poverty and corruption. To deny these

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