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Title: | Nigerian Primary School Teachers' Perceptions of Schooling during the Second Decade of Universal Primary Education |
Authors: | Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski Sunal, Dennis W. Ose, Osayimense |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 51-75 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | compulsory education teachers Ethnic and Race Relations Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524902 |
Abstract: | In 1976 Nigeria committed itself to the provision of universal primary education (UPE) to children aged 6-12. A basic, six-year level of education was seen as a means of working towards the equalization of educational opportunities throughout the nation. This article evaluates the UPE programme in its second decade on the basis of the perceptions of primary school teachers. A survey was carried out among 149 primary school teachers with the aim of showing whether quality education was developing at the local level in spite of stresses imposed by quantity education and limited financing. Quality education was considered in terms of adequacy of facilities, availability of instructional materials, adequacy of teachers' training, teaching practices, and adequacy of teachers' salaries and living conditions. The results indicate that serious problems continue to exist in Nigerian primary education, but that there are also some positive changes. Primary teachers are better qualified than during the first decade of UPE, and their living conditions have improved. However, the UPE teaching environment is limited in terms of facilities and materials, and teachers' salaries are low. Bibliogr. |