FREIREAN VIEW OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper elucidated Freirean view of educational practice: a case against contemporary education in Nigeria. The kind of education practiced in Nigeria, the way it is articulated and presented to the citizens is seen as a proof of sustainable development of the nation. This is because education has the potential to instill in the citizens the acceptable way of life; self-discovery of the individual and for the betterment of the nation at large. only if the extant contemporary education in Nigeria enables the educational practice, that is not just an activity but one that promotes learning from one level to another to be worthwhile. Contemporary education along with other vestiges of colonialism has its roots in European authoritarian pedagogies that accentuate the dichotomy between the expertise of the master and the ignorance of the novice is an age long system that predates John...