Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

The paper focuses on the critical analysis of Philosophy of Nigerian Education and submits that philosophy of education of any nation, Nigeria for instance must be specific and direct. One observes that in Nigeria situation, the philosophy of her education appears to be obscured. Nigeria education system appears to arrive at five objectives or philosophy of education that seems unclear to the stake holders. Ask a teacher to explain his or her understanding of philosophy of education as it relates to Nigeria, one will be perturbed with such a teacher’s explanation. The reason for this is that what we regard as philosophy of Nigerian education is nothing but a statement of objectives which appears to be irrelevant and difficult to understand. Akinpelu(2005) posited that Philosophy of Education of any nation must be clear and specific just like that of Tanzania’s philosophy of Education which based the education of her citizens on the slogan “Education for self reliable” this is very clear that no friends or foes of Tanzania can claim not to understand. It is on this note that the paper being a qualitative research is set to examine the philosophy of Nigerian education, expose its inadequacies and recommend the way out.

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