Victor Chizi Ihunda
1 article published in Journal of Humanities, Education & Social Sciences
Publications
John Dewey’s Instrumentalism and Nigeria’s Educational Experience
Nigeria’s educational experience fails to be proactive or responsive to the numerous challenges bedevilling its society. In its curriculum and pedagogy, it fails to take adequate consideration of the peculiarities of the socio-cultural reality of Nigerians. Despite the admission of the instrumental value of education in the National Policy on Education (2004) as a tool for national development, we continue to see a sheer form of non-pragmatic formalism, verbalism, legalism, and blatant mimicry of British, American, and lately Asian systems, …