Abstract
The paper examines adult education practice in agriculture-led development strategy from pedagogical perspective. The paper believes that adult education has the potentialities for development but argues that there are missing elements in the adult education practice that are critical if sustained agricultural growth will be achieved. Instead of andragogy, transformative learning and liberatory method should be embraced. Also, instead of focusing on scientific knowledge systems alone, indigenous practices should be encouraged.
Highlights
Development since this decade has been characterized by rising levels of poverty
The relevance of adult education is in creating conducive environment for development to thrive through developing the right quality of labour force the country needs to meet its development objectives by equipping them with skills
The aim of this paper is to examine and re-position adult education to create an enabling environment for development to thrive
Summary
Development since this decade has been characterized by rising levels of poverty. Agricultural production continues to remain low, leading to food insecurity in the nation inspite of strategies adopted by successive governments to develop agriculture. Sherlock and Perry (2008:38) identifies seven questions to provide answer to the question how effective is leadership and management in ensuring that learners achieve outcomes; (i) To what extent is performance monitored accurately and is continuously improved through appropriate quality assurance and assessment tools (ii) To what extent is concern shown by leaders and managers at all levels to achieve continuous improvement and to assist learners (iii) To what extent are the effectiveness with which equality of opportunity and the values of diversity promoted in the e-ISSN : 2620 3502 p-ISSN : 2615 3785 programme (iv) To what extent is good practice the guiding principle in recruitment (v) How regular and rigorous is staff performance monitored and improved (vi) How accessible and suitable are teaching aids and resources used in learning (vii) How efficient are resources utilized in aiding learning?. Facilitators could help them improve the skills they need to do things by themselves than others to things for them
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