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The Telesis of Nigerian Nomadic Education

The nomadic education program in Nigeria is 20 years old and its central concern has been the promotion of access to education for nomads in the country. This chapter critically examines the implementation of nomadic education in the context of its avowed goal of promoting equality of educational opportunity. It contends that the delivery systems of the nomadic education program need to be reconceptualised and the potentials of cost effective systems such as open schooling need to be harnessed and implemented if the goals of Education for All as articulated in the Dakar Framework in 2000 are t…