Adult Education and Community Development Programmes as Vital Tool for Transformation of Rural Communities in Nigeria

Abstract

Adult Education and Community Development compliments each other in the bid to ameliorate and alleviate the living conditions of people. In developing countries where many people are living in rural communities, they are veritable instruments par excellence for tackling illiteracy, ignorance and diseases. To this end, the collaboration of government agencies, non-government organizations, communities and community-based organizations toward development programmes is therefore inevitable. This paper examined the concept of adult education, community development their objectives and programmes highlighting   their complimentary roles. It also looked at some programmes capable of stimulating and sustaining rural transformation. It concludes with recommendations that, community members should be mobilized for active participation especially in programme selection, planning and implementation, proper funding of community development programmes is required, publicity of programmes, monitoring and proper implementation strategy such as the bottom top approach.

Keywords: Adult, Community, Development, Rural, Education.