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Education and National Integration in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Alan Peshkin
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The new nations of the world hold many expectations for their education systems. They expect that schools will produce the labour force for their manpower requirements, the leadership for their bureaucracies, and the citizenry for an enlightened social order. In pluralistic countries, governments expect also that schools will assist in integrating sub-populations fragmented by religious, linguistic, or ethnic differences. This article will examine the theme, ‘education and national integration’, in Nigeria, whose federal form of government was erected in recognition of profound cultural disparities.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , November 1967 , pp. 323 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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