EDUCATION IN URBAN AND RURAL SETTINGS: THE EXAMPLE OF NIGERIA
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2018-06-18
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Department of Educational Foundation, Nasarawa State University Keffi
Abstract
Fonnal education has come to stay in Nigeria. The formal education driven educational institutions appear to he concentrated in the urban centres to the ignoring of the rural settings with a plethora, of poor quality educational infrastructural facilities. Education in urban centres seem to be enjoying more attention by government and the mass of the people. This paper is burdened with explicating what the fonnal education portrait is in urban and rural settings with specific reference to Nigeria - as an independent geopolitical entity.
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Education, urban selling, rural setting.
Citation
Ananaba, C.M. (2012). Contemporary issues in rural community development in Nigeria. In Onuoha, J.I. & Ezeribe, S.N. (Eds). Issues in contemporary social discourse. Owerri: Liu House of Excellence Ventures. Elechi, g.E&Ogbondah, L. (2005) Sociological foundation of education. Port Harcourt: Harey Publications Company.