Influence of Adult Education Programmes on the Political Development of Rivers State

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of adult education programmes on the political development of Rivers State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. Three research questions and three 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 one hundred and twenty-four (124) adult educators from fifty-seven (57) adult learning centres in Rivers State were recruited for the study. An instrument titled ‘Influence of Adult Education Programmes on Political Development of Rivers State Questionnaire’ was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation statistics were used to answer research questions while z-test was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that basic literacy education, functional literacy education, civic education as adult education programmes influenced political development to high extent in Rivers State. It was recommended among others that the Rivers State government should embark on the provision of adult basic literacy education programmes with a view to eradicating illiteracy and assisting the disadvantaged groups to acquire skills to help them perform their social and political roles in the society.