Adult Education Manifesto on Peace and Voter Education for Political Emancipation in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of Peace and Voter education on the political emancipation of Rivers State as a justification for inclusion in what should constitute Adult Learning and Education (ALE) practice. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Two hundred and forty-three (243) adult learners were randomly drawn from a population of two thousand, four hundred and thirty (2,430) in the fifty-seven (57) adult learning centres using proportionate sampling together with a census of all the 124 adult educators from the 57 Adult Learning Centres in Rivers State. A validated 16-item instrument titled “Influence of Peace and Voter Education Programmes on Political Emancipation Questionnaire” was used for data collection. Mean was used to answer research questions, while z-test was used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that, peace education and voter education as adult education programmes influenced political emancipation in Rivers State. It was recommended that, the Independent National Electoral Commission and other governmental agencies should embark on massive voter education programmes in order to enable adult citizens of Rivers State understand that money politics is unhealthy for democracy and good governance and that peace and voter education should be part of what should constitute Adult Learning and Education (ALE) practice.