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ERIC ED365160: Price-Tagging Child Bilingualism: An Evaluation of Policy and the Socio-Economic and Political Implications of Commercialisation of Nursery Education in Nigeria.

Years of nursery education are crucial in the language development process of the child. In Nigeria, a nation with over 400 languages, naming a national language for educational and cultural development that foster unity and identity, becomes a sensitive issue. It is argued that government encouragement of private efforts in the provision of pre-primary education has led to commercialization, and that in this context, language skills that schools supply are in a way products that carry price-tags. As such, government policy is an alternative product, and government must change the attitudes of…