scholarly works in early childhood and educational foundation

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    Education for sustainable peace in Nigeria
    (2019-01) Meroyi, S. I.
    Education is an important tool in achieving sustainable peace. Where there is no peace, chaos, destruction of lives and properties are inevitable, there will not be development therefore, stagnation and retrogression will be the likely outcomes. Knowledge is very essential to ensure peace and stability in any society. This can be achieved through the process of education. For a state or society to achieve sustainable peace, the quality and practice of its education becomes very essential. This paper examined the concepts of education and peace. It provides a philosophical insight into the various ways the process of education in Nigeria can be employed to achieve sustainable peace. The study reveals that curriculum, pedagogy and subject approaches are vital in inculcating social values and peace in the society. They are required if the potency and efforts of the process of education in strengthening and promoting peace will not be defeated. It concluded by stating that while proven and effective programmes and curriculum are in place in Nigeria's educational policy, educators have what it takes to demonstrate, impart and help learners to develop and reflect the culture of peace through classroom interactions. It finally suggested ways of promoting peace through education. This include creation of conducive atmosphere for learning, allocation of adequate funds for educational development, discouraging quota System, separating religion from secular education and provision of culturally relevant curriculum
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    Karl Marx historical dialectics, cultural education and Nigeria’s economic goals
    (2018) Meroyi, S.I.; Olajide, O.T.
    Educational policy do change as a result of changes in social, economic and political structures. The present 2013 educational policy document became necessary because the nation intends lo meet the medium term economic development plans (NEEDS). This strategies plan has engendered an expanded rote for education as an investment for economic development and social change. The study therefore raised a fundamental question on the relevance of the present of westernized educational System. Karl Marx's historical dialectics emphasized that the social, political, legal and educational System depend on a super structure. the prevailing economic structure. If education is part of the superstructure, there is need to see how the nation can achieve her goal via the cultural education datum. The study employs an integrative approach which is a combination of the speculative, analytical and prescriptive mode of philosophizing. Historical dialectics provided the framework for analyzing the ability of education to meet the needs of the nation vis a vis the economic structure of the society. This study argues that, to meet the economics goal as expressed and emphasized in the 2013 National Policy on Education. the curriculum should be built to meet the economic needs of the society through its cultural dictated practices. Cultural education thus will mean having an environmental and geographical dictated curriculum. An education that de-emphasizes examination and embraces practicality and situated within her learners' culture and language