Impact of Adult Education Programmes on Women Participation in Community Development in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State

Nkeiru Nwanorue; Dr. Doreen Kobani

Authors

Nkeiru Nwanorue
Dr. Doreen Kobani

Keywords:

adult education, adult education programmes, participation, community and community development

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of adult education programmes on women participation in community development in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State. The study was guided by three research objectives and three research questions. The study adopted analytical survey design. The population of this study comprised 766 women who participated in adult education programmes in the area of study, out of which 581 women were proportionately sampled. Instrument used for this study was a validated questionnaire titled "Impact of Adult Education Programmes on Women Participation in Community Development Questionnaire', and it has a reliability index of 0.86 which was considered reliable for the study. Mean statistics and t-test were used for analysing the data. Findings of the study revealed that basic literacy education progrmme has empowered women with requisite knowledge to participate in decision making; functional literacy programme has enhanced women economic life; and skill acquisition programmes has improved the economic status of women, all these programmes have improve women capability to participate in community development.

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Impact of Adult Education Programmes on Women Participation in Community Development in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State. (2020). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 20(G10), 43-49. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3419

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