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Item Re-thinking Indoctrination in Education: a Philosophical Enquiry into the Consensus and Conflict(2021) Olaniyan, O. O.; Meroyi, S. I.Education as a tool for national development hinges on adopting the right educational philosophy. The type of education a country adopts is of great importance in the achievement of the goals and philosophies of her education as spelt out in the educational policy. Based on the premise that school children are prone to indoctrination as a result of their impressionable ages, the study examined critically the concept of indoctrination and properly analyse its place in the contemporary Nigerian society. The methodology involves speculating, analysing and prescribing, to explain the concept of indoctrination and education as well as how to eliminate the use of indoctrination in Nigeria's education system. Based on the findings of the study, it is necessary for the teacher to eliminate the use of indoctrination and create a democratic classroom in order to implement the goals and philosophy of Nigerian education. The study recommended that stake holders in the education industry should discourage indoctrination by providing proper guidance and monitoring of schools to ensure compliance.Item Forty Years of PEAN and Nigeria’s National Policy on Education(2021) Meroyi, S. I.Guidance and monitoring are essential in every human or social endeavour to attain success. Unguided and unmonitored activities are likely to fail hence, the imperative of guidance and monitoring in human activities. Groups, associations and bodies do volunteer to carry out activities of supervision or scrutinizing undertakings of individuals, societies and organisations even without profit motive, all in the spirit of ensuring standards and attaining objectives. The Philosophers of Education Association of Nigeria (P.E.A.N) is an academic body involved in the development and practice of education in Nigeria. As part of her responsibilities to the Nigerian Society in the forty years of her existence, it is pertinent to examine activities of the education sector in order to determine its relevance to the growth aspirations of the country. There are arguments as to the reasons for the alleged failure of Nigeria’s education system; some had attributed it to the attitudes of people in the society, while others claimed it was the policy guidelines. This paper therefore sets out to examine the \national Policy on Education (N.P.E.) as a document to determine its adequacy, relevance or otherwise in the practice and administration of Nigeria’s education system. The Philosophical Research Method (P.R.M.) as well as the Content Analysis (C.A.) mode was adopted to scrutinise the policy document. The paper concluded that funding and implementation of policy guidelines have been the bane of the effective and efficient practice of education. Recommendations were made thereafter.Item African Social Values and the Contemporary Issues of Respect and Cooperation in Nigeria's Educational Process(2020) Meroyi, S. I.The interdependence of social values and education is mutual because one promotes the other. Whoever passes through the process of education is expected to acquire social values which will differentiate him/her from those without the opportunity. Thus, better social behaviour is expected from educated individuals, although there may be exceptions. In other words, the knowledge acquired from schools should expose recipients lo live rightly and harmoniously with others around them. This philosophical piece therefore examines African social values in relation to respect and cooperation as well as its place in the contemporary African society. The need for Teacher Education practitioners especially, in Nigeria to lay more emphasis on the affective domain of learning as recommended in the paper suggests a possible turn-out of learners from schools with better altitudes and display of characters necessary for desired growth and development of the society.Item Operationalisng Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 in Nigeria: Artificial Intelligence and Employability of Graduates(2020) Meroyi, S. I.Man's deficiency at applying acquired knowledge intelligently has prompted development of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), a computer device designed to learn new concepts and tasks; it also possesses the ability to reason and draw conclusions about the world. This shows that man finds it difficult to articulate and stimulate knowledge appropriately which affected development. Products of educational institutions particularly in Nigeria have not been found employable. Man and his nature support acquisition of knowledge. However, intelligent application of this knowledge had been queried severally. Can it be claimed that human nature negates positive application of knowledge for the purpose of development? This paper expounded the concepts of human nature, Artificial Intelligence, employability, and education in relation to operationalising United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. The paper employed the speculative, historical, analytic and prescriptive methods, and concluded that operationalising the SDG 4 has become imperative, therefore, every means must be utilised to ensure its success through the process of education. The paper therefore recommended that teachers should discard the 'banking' method of teaching and develop learners said that they are allowed to discover knowledge and endeavour to apply same intelligently with the government providing appropriate environment for education and its process to thrive.Item Karl Marx historical dialectics, cultural education and Nigeria’s economic goals(2019) 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 curriculumItem Re-thinking Indoctrination in Education: a Philosophical Enquiry into the Consensus and Conflict(The Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Univeristy of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2021) Olaniyan, O. O.; Meroyi, S. I.Education as a tool for national development hinges on adopting the right educational philosophy. The type of education a country adopts is of great importance in the achievement of the goals and philosophies of her education as spelt out in the educational policy. Based on the premise that school children are prone to indoctrination as a result of their impressionable ages, the study examined critically the concept of indoctrination and properly analyse its place in the contemporary Nigerian society. The methodology involves speculating, analysing and prescribing, to explain the concept of indoctrination and education as well as how to eliminate the use of indoctrination in Nigeria's education system. Based on the findings of the study, it is necessary for the teacher to eliminate the use of indoctrination and create a democratic classroom in order to implement the goals and philosophy of Nigerian education. The study recommended that stake holders in the education industry should discourage indoctrination by providing proper guidance and monitoring of schools to ensure compliance.Item “What is Knowledge that I Should Acquire It”: Towards an l-Thou(2022-07) Baruwa, I. B.; Meroyi, S. I.Item Developing metacognition in pre-primary childhood education in Nigeria and Uganda(2022-07) Meroyi, S. I.; Amosun, M. D.; Sotoyinbo, A. O.Education is a process designed to develop skills and attitudes in learners, among these skills is metacognition. Societies have faulted educational institutions on its inability to produce graduates who can reason and decide rationally, this had prompted the search by scholars to resolve this challenge. This paper examined metacognition as a concept and how teachers can develop this skill in learners especially, those in the pre-school classes in Nigeria and Uganda. Metacognition is the ability to reflect on issues and personally take decisions that are rational and result in beneficial actions. The paper discussed various methods and theories of imparting this skill in early childhood learners which include the play-way, dramatisation and story-telling methods of teaching while the theories of learning considered include the Stimulus-Response and Cognitive theories. Models of learning like the Reggio Emilia and Friedrich Froebel's were enumerated as means by which the skill can be imparted. The paper concluded that the skill is indispensable if the process of education is to produce graduates competent in critical thinking and logical reasoning. It recommended that professionals should be employed to handle children's education, conducive environment be provided, while young learners should be encouraged to carry out independent actions with supervision from teachers.Item Philosophy and Knowledge in the Tvventy-first Century: Redefining the Role of Universities and Schools(2022) Meroyi, S. I.; Olajide, O. T.; Alaka, A. A.Philosophy and knowledge are indispensable in the process and practice of education. The essence of education is to train human mind. Education enables one to reason and think critically using mind. Knowledge is essential in the process of education. What kinds of things can be known? How can it be said that a learner knows something? These questions make knowledge one of the most fundamental aspects of philosophy and education. This paper reviews literature to examine what knowledge is and what it ought to be in the 21st century. It employs speculative approach, conceptual analysis and prescriptive research methods in philosophy to expound the creation of knowledge that will be relevant far the 21st century society. The paper has revealed that there are educational initiatives in place that are being taken in the 21st century to set an educational agenda that meets the local and global standards/needs. This implies that universities and schools have an increased role to play in the 21" century including training and recruiting learners, who can, at different levels, demonstrate creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. The paper recommends that knowledge creation must extend to include the physical, mental, emotional and social domains of learning as required in the 21st century.Item Covid-19 pandemic, digital education and national development in Nigeria(2022-05) Meroyi, S. I.; Kayode-Olawoyin, O.The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the process and practice of education in nations across the globe. The pandemic however brought to fare the need oar digitalisation and utilisation of modem methods of teaching and learning in schools. Thus, the pedagogy in the System of education is affected in certain ways. This is necessary to overcome the menace and challenges the pandemic has thrown societies into. The study employed the tools of both historical and philosophical research methods to assess the relevance of digital education in the quest to promote the course of education in order to bring about national development in Nigeria. This is expected to assist Nigeria and other countries across the globe to overcome the big challenge and disruption caused by the pandemic in the practice of education. The study concluded that the place of digital education to confront the negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic in order to overcome the problems that can impede the desired growth and developments in the Nigerian society has become imperative. The paper recommends that stakeholders should brace up to embrace the realities of the 'new normal! ’ of digital education which the pandemic had brought, while individuals’ and governments' efforts should not be undermined under the guise of any form of conservatism