Vocational Adult Education and Rural Development in Ekiti State

Abstract

The study basically examined whether vocational education had any relationship with rural community development. The descriptive research design of the survey type was used for the study. The population in Ekiti rural communities (adult only) totaled 700620 and 600 respondents were chosen for the study through multistage sampling procedure to select 600 respondents for the study. A self designed instruments tagged vocational educational rural community development was used to collect data and only one hypothesis was generated and tested at 0.05 level of significance making use of Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. The result revealed a significant relationship between vocational education and rural community development at P-value 0.000<than 0.05 and at (r=0.247) which showed that as vocational education increased so does rural community development. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government at all levels should intensify efforts at seeing that every community member is self reliant by encouraging them to acquire one vocational skill or the other and that individuals within communities should be enthusiastic about vocational skill acquisition because it is when they are willing that they can acquire skills successfully. Keywords: vocational skills, education, rural transformation, rural communities, urban communities, development. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-6-15 Publication date: February 29 th 2020