ADULT EDUCATION PRACTICE IN NIGERIA: BETWEEN PEDAGOGY AND ANDRAGOGY

Abstract

It was a coincidence that I found myself as a primary school teacher in 1973 after receiving training at the Ansar-ud-deen Teachers College Ota, later as a lecturer at the Premier University of Ibadan (UI) in the Africa’s Premier Department of Adult Education.  This is to me a divine pre-ordination, which is beyond human comprehension; not even my parents could explain then.

It was in my Department that I found myself in the real sense of Adult Education practice using terminologies different from the regular formal school system. It is for this reason that my presentation will take us through how Adult Education practice is understood in terms of pedagogy and andragogy, and at the same time where we stand as adult education facilitators with regards to pedagogy and andragogy.