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Title:Lugard's educational policy in Nigeria: 1912-18
Author:Fajana, A.
Year:1975
Periodical:West African Journal of Education
Volume:19
Issue:2
Pages:179-197
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subject:educational policy
Abstract:While many recall Lugard's political achievements very few know anything at all about his revolutionary programme of education embodied in the 1916 Education Ordinance. A careful study of his career during the period 190O to 1919 shows clearly that Lugard has gradually developed a considerable interest in education and that by 1912 he had evolved a philosophy of education which influenced his education programme in Nigeria during his Governor-Generalship. Lugard believed in education, but it was not necessarily education for the improvement or advancement of Africans. Even though Lugard's educational programme during the period 1912-18 was not designed for the good and general upliftment of the people's of Nigeria but essentially to satisfy the particular needs of government and the interest of Britain, his policy - hindered to come into full enactment by the First World War and because Lugard's governor-generalship was too short stimulated considerable educational activity which proved of tremendous advantage in the end to Nigerians. Notes.
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