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| Abstract: The educational system of any society is usually designed and directed to meet the needs and aspirations of its people; and there is usually a necessary philosophical foundation for such system of education. It is such foundation that points either to the success or the failure of the system of education in place. In this vein, it could easily be seen that Nigerian system of education is bedeviled with series of problems ranging from corruption to inept curriculum and the like. The aim of this paper therefore, was to attempt an exposition and analysis of the sub-structure of Nigerian education in a bid to clearly understand the reason for the persistent problems facing the system. We discovered that Nigerian philosophy of education is eclectic; as its expectations, at least in principle, seem to cohere with the ideals of some philosophical orientations like idealism, realism, naturalism, pragmatism, existentialism and humanism. However, the problem in Nigerian education and probably many developing nations like Nigeria, is that practice has not been matched with the theories and demands of these underlying philosophies. Thus, our conclusion is that if stakeholders in education could consciously follow the dictates and ideals of the supposedly underlying philosophies, then the problems - corruption/ moral decay, underfunding, inept curriculum, ethnicity, etc, could be curbed and the system would grow better. |
| Keywords: philosophy; orientations; education; problems; policy; foundation; goal |
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