GUIDING INSPIRATIONS FOR RESHAPING POLICY DESIGN, PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION AND INCREASE INVESTMENT IN ADULT EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper discussed comprehensively the inspirations that should guide scholars, practitioners, education policy makers in Nigeria in reshaping policy design, programmes implementation, and increase investment of adult education in Nigeria arising from the identified challenges confronting adult education practice in the country. It began with a discussion of the challenges confronting adult education practice in Nigeria which necessitated the advocacy for reshaping adult education in Nigeria. It identified UNESCO’s International Conferences on Adult Education and the various recommendations put forward at each conference, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the five adult education targets contained in the Agenda, the Education 2030 Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action for implementing the adult education targets in the Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2015 UNESCO Recommendations on Adult Learning and Education (RALE), and the 2015 Manifesto for Adult Learning in the 21st Century Report by the European Association for the Education of Adults as the five cardinal inspirations which should be relied upon in reshaping adult education practice in Nigeria. The paper recommended that scholars, practitioners, and education policy makers should be inspired and guided by these five cardinal inspirations in the process of reshaping adult education in Nigeria especially in policy design, programmes implementation, and increase investment.