REDUCING THE PROBLEM OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL INCIDENCE IN NIGERIA: THE MISSION AND VISION OF ADULT LITERACY EDUCATION

Abstract

Educating the children is a way by which we can prevent the marginalized adulthood and make them to be self-reliant and responsible citizens. However, most children in Nigeria leaves school without completing formal education. This phenomenon will not only affect their personal life but also affect the society as a whole and contribute to increment in the number of illiterates in the nearest future. However, the attendants’ benefits of adult literacy education have been seen to translate into inputs and values for out-of-school children and the communities. It is in the light of this position that this paper examined adult literacy education, the challenges of adult literacy education, factors responsible for out-of-school incidence in Nigeria, the mission and vision of adult literacy education and the relevance of adult literacy education to the mitigation of out-of-school incidence in Nigeria. The paper concludes that adult literacy education is capable of reducing the incidence of out-of-school children in Nigeria. It recommended among others that government should give more support to adult literacy education programmes because it is capable of integrating out-of-school children back to school, bring about their personal development and make them functional by contributing their quota to the overall development of the country in general.