Implementation of Adult Literacy Programmes by State Agencies for Sustainable Mass Literacy in South East Nigeria

Abstract

The study assessed the extent of implementation of adult literacy programmes by State Agencies for sustainable mass literacy in South East Nigeria. Two specific purposes, two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of this study comprised one thousand two hundred and eighty (1280) adult literacy centres in South East, Nigeria. The sample of the study comprised 50 adult literacy centers drawn through simple random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was adopted Checklist, titled “Level of Implementation of Adult Literacy Programmes by State Agencies for Sustainable Mass Literacy Checklist” (LIALPSASMLC). The Checklist was validated by three (3) lecturers from Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, and scorer reliability method was applied using Kendal’s W Test of Concordance with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), which yielded the overall reliability index of 0.63. Frequency and the percentage were used to analyse the data collected through the checklist. Chi-Square test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that Basic English Language Skills, Civil Education, HIV and AIDs prevention, basic hygiene and nutrition were implemented as the contents of Adult literacy in South East, Nigeria. On the contrary, entrepreneurship education content, and basic technology were not implemented in Adult Literacy programmes amongst others. Based on these findings, the study recommended among other things that the agencies for adult literacy in each of the states in South East should recruit qualified teachers to teach adult literacy centres for quality learning outcomes.