Re-thinking adult basic education for rural development in Nigeria

This study critically examines adult basic education for rural development. It shows that the curricular of basic education is fraught with implementation problems. The study advocates a reinvention of the war against indiscipline (WAI) to curb cultism and its menace and promote discipline and moral rectitude in rural communities. This is seen as an essential contribution of adult basic education for rural development. This is because the war against indiscipline WAI) strategy can erase from the society undesirable behaviours, such as cultism and its menace. The study concludes that education is interwoven with social policy and that adult education must be viewed in relation to social, economic, political and way of life of the society in which it is carried out.