Nation Building and Quality Higher Education in Nigeria: Implications for Teacher Education

IF 0.2 Q4 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Africa Education Review Pub Date : 2020-03-03 DOI:10.1080/18146627.2018.1549952

O. Aluede, J. I. Oviawe, O. Imhangbe, Sebastian Ehiaguina

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Abstract Higher education is essential to the acquisition of human knowledge, development of the economy and reformation of the society in all nations. University education is the foremost source of providing the required knowledge that will help generate and accelerate knowledge flow for modern based economies. It plays invaluable roles in the production of quality manpower for the development of the nation. This article reports on a study that addressed the concepts of nation building; quality education; teacher education; current status of teacher education in Nigeria; and teacher education and nation building in Nigeria. The article further recommends strategies for improving teacher education and training (TET) in Nigerian universities, which include, retraining of academic staff in the Nigerian university system (NUS) to embrace ICT/e-learning/m-learning, curbing of financial wastage in the NUS; downsizing the number of support staff; and concentrating more attention on the recruitment of high quality academic staff for enhanced delivery.

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尼日利亚的国家建设与优质高等教育：对教师教育的启示

摘要高等教育是各国获取人类知识、发展经济和改革社会的重要组成部分。大学教育是提供所需知识的首要来源，这将有助于产生和加速现代经济的知识流动。它在为国家发展培养高素质人才方面发挥着不可估量的作用。本文报告了一项关于国家建设概念的研究；素质教育；教师教育；尼日利亚教师教育现状；以及尼日利亚的教师教育和国家建设。文章进一步建议了改善尼日利亚大学教师教育和培训（TET）的策略，其中包括对尼日利亚大学系统（NUS）的学术人员进行再培训，以接受ICT/电子学习/移动学习，遏制NUS的财政浪费；缩减支助人员的人数；更加注重征聘高质量的学术人员，以加强交付工作。

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Africa Education Review EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： Africa Education Review is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current educational issues. It encourages debate on theory, policy and practice on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary interests on international and global scale. The journal therefore welcomes contributions from associated disciplines including sociology, psychology and economics. Africa Education Review is interested in stimulating scholarly and intellectual debate on education in general, and higher education in particular on a global arena. What is of particular interest to the journal are manuscripts that seek to contribute to the challenges and issues facing primary and secondary in general, and higher education on the African continent and in the global contexts in particular. The journal welcomes contributions based on sound theoretical framework relating to policy issues and practice on the various aspects of higher education.