Adult Education Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Societal Change in Nigeria

Essentially, it is imperative for any group of people who want to stimulate sustainable societal change in their society to engage in adult education as an integral part of life-long education or learning in the society. Fundamentally, irrespective of people’s educational attainment, there is still an urgent need to continue to learn in life. The guiding philosophy in such continued life-long engagement in life-long education or learning is that there must be obviously a lot of new things for people to learn that will be certainly rewarding in promoting meaningful societal change. This paper basically focused on examining certain strategies which adult education employs in promoting sustainable societal change in Nigeria. Based on the discussions on the identified strategies, such recommendations as the urgent need for regular workshops, seminars and conferences with a focus on goal setting for meaningful societal change in Nigeria as well as raising people’s awareness and public enlightenment on the roles of adult education as a tool for stimulating social action for sustainable societal change in Nigeria among others were highlighted in the paper. Key Words:  Adult Education Strategies. Promoting. Sustainable Societal Change.

Strategies of Community Development in Promotion of Social Change in Participating Communities in the Society

There are many strategies of community development in promotion of social change in participating communities in the society. Some of the strategies of community development which are usually employed in promotion of social change in participating communities in the society that the paper examined are conscientisation strategy, group action strategy, co-operative grouping strategy and empowerment strategy. It should be noted that social change as change in behaviour of people clearly manifests over a period of time in the society. Social actions stimulate social change in human environment. The paper recommended among other things that there should be concerted efforts to enhance effective conscientisation of all relevant stakeholders in community development which will promote a more reliable platform for promotion of social change in various participating communities in the society, community development should be driven by common vision and interest of the relevant stakeholders in the participating communities in the society and others. Keywords: Strategies, community development, promotion, social change, participating communities and society

Adult Education Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Societal Change in Nigeria

Essentially, it is imperative for any group of people who want to stimulate sustainable societal change in their society to engage in adult education as an integral part of life-long education or learning in the society. Fundamentally, irrespective of people’s educational attainment, there is still an urgent need to continue to learn in life. The guiding philosophy in such continued life-long engagement in life-long education or learning is that there must be obviously a lot of new things for people to learn that will be certainly rewarding in promoting meaningful societal change. This paper basically focused on examining certain strategies which adult education employs in promoting sustainable societal change in Nigeria. Based on the discussions on the identified strategies, such recommendations as the urgent need for regular workshops, seminars and conferences with a focus on goal setting for meaningful societal change in Nigeria as well as raising people’s awareness and public enlightenment on the roles of adult education as a tool for stimulating social action for sustainable societal change in Nigeria among others were highlighted in the paper. Keywords:  Adult Education Strategies. Promoting. Sustainable Societal Change

Social Development Strategies for Promotion of Community Development in Nigeria

Every social action is perceived as a joint undertaking of’ people in their social settings to improve their living conditions in various communities in the society. Social development as an educational process stimulates consciousness among people in order to be aware of their capabilities to address prevailing situations and realities in various participating communities. Social development as a concept is used to stimulate awareness in people for the ultimate purpose of understanding their social realities ant their potentialities to promote development that will improve their living conditions in their various communities. The paper identified conscientisation strategy, communication strategy and group action strategy as strategies of social development in stimulating community development. Based on the issues discussed appropriate recommendations are made which include the urgent need to ensure that adequate information is made available to people through the instrumentality of conscientisation and communication as well as that social development should be driven by common vision and interest of the people of participating communities in Nigeria. Keywords: Social Development, Strategies, Promotion, Community Development DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-11-07 Publication date: April 30th 202

Clinical and sociodemographic correlates of neonatal jaundice at a tertiary health facility in Lagos, Nigeria

Background: Varied aetiologies have been proposed for the prevalence of neonatal jaundice (NNJ) in different parts of Nigeria. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical and sociodemographic correlates of NNJ in a cohort of neonates presenting at a Tertiary health Facility in Lagos, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty consecutive neonates that presented at the neonatal unit of the hospital were enlisted for the study after checking them with set inclusion and exclusion criteria. The transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) readings of the individuals were obtained on the forehead, sternum and abdomen of the calm neonate in a supine position and blood samples for total serum bilirubin estimation were drawn from a peripheral vein within 10 min of TcB measurement. Results: One hundred and fifty neonates were included in the study of which 89 (59.33%) were males and 61 (40.67%) were females. Mothers that had only a primary level of education had babies that presented with significantly higher bilirubin values (P = 0.000). Male neonates, those that presented after 48 h, those between 40 and 42 weeks' gestational age and those that were <2.5 kg birth weight also had higher values though it was not statistically significant. Those that were delivered at home or in a church, delivered by an auxiliary nurse or a traditional birth attendant and those with jaundice extending to the sole of the feet also presented with significantly higher mean bilirubin scores (P = 0.000). Conclusion: Majority of individuals in this study with NNJ were males, while those delivered at home or in a church or by traditional birth attendants and auxiliary nurses and had mothers that were poorly educated had higher mean bilirubin values. It is thus imperative that advocacy is increased to intervene on modifiable risk factors for this condition