Browsing by Author "Omoregie, C. O."

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Adoption of the principle of autonomy in the promotion of community development practices in Nigeria
(Association for Sustainable Development and Community Integration of Nigeria, 2023-06) Omoregie, C. O.; Nnamani, P. S.
This paper presents autonomy as a principle rooted in ethics - a normative branch of philosophy which applies to most human development activities. Since community development activities continue to grow both in developing and developed countries with its attendant agitations for autonomy, it is proposed that autonomy should be adopted for grassroots development. Autonomy remains an ingredient that can unleash massive human potentials within people and harness local resources in communities in order to promote broad based human sustainable growth and development. The members of various localities ought to be involved in the articulation of their own felt needs and running of their own affairs without inhibiting external assistance. So, external assistance should submit to the overriding interests and aspirations of the people so as to address the difficulties of sustainability in development programmes. This paper proposes autonomy as an ethical value in community engagement.
African cultures and the challenges of quality education for sustainable development
(2018) Amponsah, S.; Omoregie, C. O.; Ansah, B. O.
In 2015, the world, through UNESCO adopted the 2030 agenda for sustainable development floated on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to “transform our world.” SDG4 titled Quality Education seeks to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.” An ordinary look at SDG4 would make it appear as an extension of Education for All. However, there are differences. One difference that stands out is the undercurrent of the need to connect education to the key indicators of existence in its context especially through learning and equity. SDG4, as indeed many policies and agenda at the global level, tends to face challenges peculiar to the uniqueness of the African continent. Most governments struggle to include such goals in their national plans in ways that connect the real context of their people. One major area of concern for us is the area of culture where most programmes introduced into Africa, including into schools, are dressed in cultures foreign to the receiving communities. The authors of this paper argue that for SDG4 and similar programmes to fulfill their objective; they must find ways of embracing and adapting authentic African culture. The authors theorise in literature and use African cultures to drive its analysis. We conclude that African culture is the most viable framework for ensuring quality education that causes and sustains development along the lines envisaged by SDG4.
Boundaries of empirical approaches in educational research
(2023-12) Omoregie, C. O.
This paper critically reviews the research done in education faculties in Nigerian universities. This research, though categorized in postgraduate schools or colleges as mainly in the liberal arts/humanities and the social sciences, depends on the theories and methodologies from other disciplines. The arts and social sciences are disciplines where undergraduates in education take courses in teaching to earn bachelor’s degrees, the postgraduate level offers varied opportunities for educational research to maximize the uniqueness of mixed method research for education.
Communication strategies and rural dwellers attitude towards Covid-19s’ preventive measures in Osun state, Nigeria
(2020) Omoregie, C. O.; Akinyooye, F. E.; Aransi, W. O.
The study examined the influence of communication strategies on rural dwellers’ knowledge and attitude towards Covid -19s’ preventive measures. Three specific research objectives and questions were achieved and answered. Exploratory research design was employed, ten villages were purposively sampled and one-hundred (100) participants were selected with the aid of simple random sampling technique. In addition, self-developed questionnaire was used to obtain relevant information from the respondents and this was analyzed through descriptive statistical tools. The empirical findings revealed that print and broadcast media most especially radio, newspaper and television were some of the available and accessible communication strategies through which information pertaining to the Covid -19s’ preventive measures were obtained by the rural dwellers. It was discovered that rural dwellers’ attitude towards avoidance of social gathering and temporary suspension of religious activities as parts of Covid -19s’ preventive measures were encouraging to a very high extent. Besides, there was no significant difference based on gender traits and age range in the rural dwellers attitude towards Covid -19s’ preventive measures, while a significant difference was empirically established among respondents’ attitude on the basis of religious affiliations which was in favour of those with Traditional religious practice. Recommendations made included dissemination of vital information through door-to-door campaigns by the approved serving health workers and provision of required facilities such as pipe-borne water and borehole to ensure rural dwellers’ access to running water, hand sanitizers, face-mask amongst others
Conceptions of a good person: implications for contemporary African education and governance
(Safari Books Ltd. Ibadan, 2023) Omoregie, C. O.; Olatunji, M. O.
Coping experiences of graduate students on full-time employment and full-time academic programmes
(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Amponsah, S.; Kumi-Yeboah, A.; Adjapong, S. O.; Omoregie, C. O.
There are full-time employed graduate students who undertake full-time studies at universities in other countries but there is minimal documentation of such engagements in Ghana. This study explored the coping experiences of full-time workers who are pursuing full-time graduate studies in a Ghana higher institution. Purposeful sampling was deployed to recruit ten graduate students from whom information was gathered using one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Findings from the study revealed that the participants' inability to secure financial support for their studies and the need to consolidate their jobs were the key factors influencing their decision to combine full-time study and work. Results also showed that flexitime arrangements served as the best strategy for coping with the two full-time endeavours. Additional results indicated that focusing on one role at the expense of the other and some form of subtle support from superiors were motivators for the study subjects to cope with the dual roles. Moreover, it was apparent that these full-time working-students often experience compelling challenges as a result of their engagement which are potential reasons for employment dishonesty among such employees. The findings of this study are important for consideration among higher educational institutions, employers, policymakers, graduate students, and others.
Critical interventions of old students’ associations for secondary school welfare in Oyo state, Nigeria
(Department of Social Work, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2023-06) Omoregie, C. O.; Oyelowo, A. O.
Stakeholders in educational institutions like business organisations, parent teachers’ association and old students’ association have been encouraged by governments to participate in the development of schools in Nigeria. The old students’ associations’ interventions, especially, in the south western Nigeria are widespread but the interventions are not well documented and guided by government policies. This paper identified few organised old students’ associations in Oyo state, Nigeria and it examined the contributions they have made to the welfare of secondary schools. Findings showed that building of classrooms, supply of school equipment, donation of laboratory facilities, scholarship and awards are areas of intervention that old students' associations have made most impacts in Oyo State, Nigeria.
A critique of adult education programmes in multiethnic Nigerian
(Ibadan, John Archers, 2018-09) Omoregie, C. O.; Oyelami, O.
A critique of formal educational system as an instrument for sustainable development in Nigeria
(Spectrum Books Limited, Ibadan, 2008) Ojokheta, K. O.; Omoregie, C. O.
The defence of African humanistic communalism for African pedagogy
(2023-06) Omoregie, C. O.
Against the background of merely condemning Western paradigms for the African educational system, this paper integrates humanism and communalism as two concepts that can be combined to serve as a new orientation for an African pedagogy. African humanistic communalism would not be a celebration of a shattered past in the quest for an African meaning. Rather, it would be an attempt at going back to the root of all human efforts evidenced in the practice of togetherness and oneness where ‘we ness’ is greater than an exaggerated ‘I’. Past Pan-African authors like Nkrumah (1970) and Nyerere (1974) had earlier expressed African unity in their respective consciencism and self-reliance doctrines but they did not anchor their ideas on an appropriate pedagogy that could sustain the ideas more tangibly in educational systems. This paper used a systematic and critical analysis to call for a change in thinking that can strengthen the African educational systems through deliberate expressions of care for one another representative of a belief system.
Emerging philosophies for educational programmes and adult learning in Nigeria
(Department of Early Childhood and Educational Foundations, University of Ibadan, 2024-03) Omoregie, C. O.; Ojo, C. R.
There are principles from pragmatism, existentialism, humanism, and radicalism that have relevance for educational practices in Nigeria, notwithstanding the ongoing debate in educational discussions over whether Nigerian education is based on any philosophy. Traces of these philosophies can be read in educational thoughts, trends and practices in Nigeria. The fact that Nigeria had for years engaged in varied educational activities presupposes that if there is not a single philosophy, then there are many philosophies guiding the country's educational practices. From the colonial era to the contemporary society, educational practices have changed because of the educational objectives that Were set in responding to the changing society. From these changes, one can show that there are orientations behind the educational practices in Nigeria. Earlier explanations discussed these ideas as separated and unrelated but this paper uses narrative review to respond to the question: what are the emerging philosophies for educational programmes in Nigeria. This was done by providing a general overview and interpretations of educational thoughts and activities. It considers those elements of many philosophies of education that have guided activities especially in educational activities generally, and adult education particularly while it teased out the common elements in the system. The four philosophies place emphasis on individuality awareness creation and functionality of learners in organisations and community they find themselves.
Employability of adult education postgraduate students in university of Ibadan, Nigeria: opportunities and threats
(Department of Adult Education University of Ibadan, 2016-08) Omoregie, C. O.; Ojo, F. E.
There is a growing interest in employability among postgraduate students in University of Ibadan. The study aimed at the opportunities that are available for postgraduate students of the department of adult education. It found out that postgraduate students lack requisite skills in setting career goal for themselves and consequently suffer from lack of focus despite the efforts of the University
Employment generation programmes and women empowerment in Nigeria
(2019) Erikitola, J. O.; Omoregie, C. O.
Women employment and empowerment is the critical goal of employment programme in Nigeria in driving productive and sustainable economy. Thus, this study objectively investigates the impacts of employment generation programme on women empowerment in Ogun State, Nigeria. The researcher adopts descriptive survey research method and use a self-constructed questionnaire to elicit information from the randomly selected respondents. One Hundred and Twenty (120) respondents of the total population (comprising of women beneficiaries of the employment generation programme of the skill acquisition outfits at Ijebu-Ode, and Ijebu-Ibefun as well as that of the Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs) were sampled. The data collated was analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency count, simple percentage and mean (using a cut-off mean score of 0.5 rating scale) to answer the research questions while the null hypotheses 1 and 2 were tested with Chi-square at P<0.05. The result shows that demographic characteristics (i.e. marital status, educational qualification and employment status) do have significant influence on the women empowerment programmes as it is positively embarked on by young, married and highly educated women. It was also realized that although, training centres, catering tools, tie and dye materials and cloth sewing machine were moderately available facilities for women empowerment programme; their availability and diverse activities during the programme is not significantly determined the women sustainable empowerment. The result also revealed major persistent challenge of the programme is highly unemployed women community. Thus, the study justifiably recommends that incorporation of more entrepreneurs, accommodation of more young school leavers, provision of more training tools and motivating interest of learning with attractive compensation can go a long way in assuring the quality of employment programmes to ensure stable and productive empowerment of women community.
Ensuring improved service delivery to adult learners through training programmes for facilitators in Abia State, Nigeria
(Nigerian National Council for Adult Education, 2021) Omoregie, C. O.; Akara, G. I.
This paper reports efforts of Abia State government in Nigeria towards promoting mass literacy for adult learners in order to meet EFA (Education for All) goal for which the National Commission for Mass Education (NMEC) was established. The study is predictive that mass education should improve in Abia State in the years to come because of the intervention programmes that had been organised for three consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019. During the intervention programmes, the topics of discussion centred around the definition of adult education, adult education and development, who adult learners are, facilitators' work and meeting points between facilitators and learners. Having trained five hundred and thirty-nine (539) facilitators with assistance of three resource persons from the academia, administrators of adult education and experienced facilitators on the field for these years, expectations of the state government are high.
Existentialist perspective of literacy promotional campaigns
(Department of Adult Education University of Ibadan, 2018) Omoregie, C. O.; Abiona, A. I.
Advances have been made in the formal educational system with the incursion of the private sector. Despite this progress, adult literacy which is driven mostly by the non-formal sector still needs more promotional efforts by individuals and groups instead of relying on government efforts and development partner activities. This paper argues that to start from the premise that everybody knows is not only a fallacy but also an undermining factor for all literacy promotional campaigns
Expanding workers’ education in Nigeria within the context of EFA: the study circles option
(Journal o f Sociology and Education in Africa, 2010-10) Kester, K. O.; Omoregie, C. O.; Gbenro, A. I.
The world is moving to a point where every country begins to realise that where the right to education is guaranteed, people have a greater chance to enjoy other rights. The UNESCO and most national governments, across the world, now realise that education offers an answer to many of the world’s problems. Thus, the aim of extending basic education to all; particularly the working adults with the context of Education for All (EFA becomes highly imperative. Given this background, this paper is out to examine the EFA goals (Goals 3, 4 and 6) as they relate to workers education in Nigeria. This is with the hope of achieving 50% improvement in adult literacy as well as meeting the qualitative learning needs of young and adults who constitute the active labour force of the country by 2015. However, it is the hope of the authors that equality of qualitative workers education opportunity by 2015 may be achieved most readily when the study circle culture is adopted. This will help provide conditions which enable each working class citizen to develop to his or her potentials within a group dynamics. The use of study circle will help to ensure that today’s organisations are turned into learning organisations where learning is not left to chance. Invariably the adoption of study circle by organisations in Nigeria, as suggested by the authors, would help to expand workers’ education and obviously will contribute significantly to organisational changes. Therefore, it is the opinion of the authors that the study circle culture should be built into the psyche of an average Nigerian to ensure a sustained voice in governance at all level of our natural life
From andragogy to social pedagogy: moral imperative of adult a educational practice
(Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2015) Omoregie, C. O.
Teaching method in adult education has gone beyond the divide of pedagogy and andragogy with the proposition of constructivist epistemology for all categories of learners. Learning ought to meet the needs of individual learners and teaching should be learners-centred to ensure social efficiency. Social pedagogy and justifies its implication for the practice of adult education as against andragogy which was hitherto described as the art of teaching adults. Social pedagogy is explained in the contexts of emerging reality that have to guide principles of adult education beyond the 21st century. The author concluded that, social pedagogy is relevant to the practice of adult education in fostering creativity and innovation in learners. The moral imperative that social pedagogy imposes on the practice of adult education, especially in Nigeria is also shown.
Guided-practice on occupational health and safety competencies of workers in the construction industry in Oyo State, Nigeria
(2018-06) Ojo, F. E.; Omoregie, C. O.
Construction work and industry, although highly important to Nigeria's developmental processes, is characterized by high level of risks occurrence and hazards. This raises concern about the type of safety training provided in the industry and the instructional method used in imparting such safety trainings. A pretest-postest control group quasi experimental design was used for the study. The experimental group was exposed to guided-practice training method and lecture method was conducted on the control group. Two construction industries were purposively selected based on the criteria of workers' size, number of customers and experience of health risks. The workers in the two organizations who met the study's inclusion criteria were randomised into GpTM (11) and Lecture method (12) (Control) groups while treatment lasted eight weeks. Construction Industry Occupational Health and Safety Competencies Questionnaire (r= 0.85) and Occupational Health and Safety Competencies Scale (r=0.78) were used in collecting data for the study. Data analysis was done using ANCOVA at 0.05 level of significance. There was a significant main effect of treatment on the occupational health and safety competencies of workers (F(1.17)= 15.693. P<0.05, η2= .480).). There was no significant main effect of level of literacy on occupational health and safety competencies among participants (F(1.19) = . 659, p>0.05, η = . 034), but the two-way interaction effect treatments and literacy was significant. Guided-practice training method was significant in enhancing the occupational health and safety competencies of construction workers. The training method should therefore be employed regularly in safety trainings to achieve improved health and safety competencies in the Nigerian construction industry.
Influence of e-learning on secondary school students’ moral values and academic achievement in two local government areas in Ondo State
(Social Studies Association of Nigeria, 2009-10) Ojo, G. T.; Omoregie, C. O.
Electronic media can make learning realistic and lively by motivating and generating interest in learning. Educational media as it is often called also facilitates and promotes assimilation and retention of facts, it can equally be abused which can result in poor academic performance and moral vices among students. This paper employed a survey design with a single- type questionnaire that showed the influence of electronic media on students’ moral development and academic performance. The data collected was analyzed using a descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentages. Findings show that electronic media have negative influence on students’ moral development and academic performance. Hence, parents and teachers have to guide students’ use of electronic media for the purposes of information, education and even entertainment.
Knowledge, education and employability of Nigerian graduates
(Philosophy of education association of Nigeria, 2016-10) Omoregie, C. O.
This paper accentuates the fact and reality that there are many qualified graduates in Nigeria without jobs. Although governments, institutions of learning and organisations are responding to this social problem in myriad of ways, there is need to ask why the proposed solutions seem not to be producing the expected results. An argument that this position holds is that human capacity building has enormous power to solve the problem of unemployment when individual talents are allowed to be expressed rather than put prospective workers on the guise that some courses are more professional and profitable than others. The non-formal education possibilities, therefore, portend a more realistic solution to the problem of unemployment by collective appreciation of human being for who they are rather than make them serve as materials and machine for consumption only