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ADE101 Introduction to Adult Education
Meaning, scope and objectives of education and of Adult Education. The concept of adulthood and the characteristics of adult learner, learning theories and their implications for adult learning, motivation and retention. Different forms and components of adult education, e.g. traditional, informal, non-formal vocational, remedial etc. Adult Education agencies and institutions.
ADE102 Introduction to Community Development
Community development within the frame work of national plans and fiscal policy meaning, purpose and phases in community development programmes, influence of culture, physical setting, agency purpose, target population and identification of felt needs, time sequence for orderly progress. The role of the change agent, the enabler, the engager etc. in community development process.
ADE103 Adult Literacy Teaching Methods
Historical development of literacy in the developing countries. Contemporary approaches to adult literacy programmes, methods and techniques of adult literacy teaching. Overview of national mass literacy campaign programmes in selected developed and developing countries. Assessment of work-oriented functional literacy programmes and their varying impacts on socio-economic development. Examination of principles, methods and techniques and problems in the teaching of adult. Demonstration, observations, supervision and evaluation.
ADE104 Comparative Studies in Adult Education
Presentation of case studies of illustrate approaches methods and techniques in comparative adult education. Analysis of current adult education issues and problems in developing countries, using comparative approach.
ADE105 Adult Education and Development
The purpose and the needs for adult education and its roles in individual and national development. National development policies, aims, objectives and processes. Organizations, methods, content, scope and agencies involved in developmental programmes.
ADE106 Introduction to Distance Education
Introduction to distance education course discusses meaning, scope and purpose of distance education in contemporary African development; methods and techniques for organization and conduct of distance education, material production and study centres including personnel selection. It further discusses the problem of monitoring, co-ordination and programme evaluation.
ADE 107 Introduction to Statistics
Students will be exposed to elementary statistics after knowing what is statistics and the purpose of it in education generally. The areas of coverage in this course will include types of statistics, methods of data collection and tabulation, sample and sampling techniques. Furthermore, students will learn about frequency distribution and their graphical presentations, measures of central tendency and dispersions.
ADE 108 History of Adult Education in
The historical development of education and adult education in
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ADE 109 English Language Practice
This course is compulsory for all students in order to sharpen and reorientate their communication skills. The course will review all parts of speech, vocabulary development, idioms and idiomatic expressions, lexical structures, use of punctuation marks, continuous writing and summarising including various forms of report writing and business letters.
ADE 110 Introduction to Guidance and Counselling
Introduction to guidance and counseling course discusses meaning, nature scope and concept of guidance and counseling, the major components of counselling, the general counseling theories and instrument. It further focuses on the development of guidance and counselling as academic and professional discipline in the developing countries, functions and attributes of counsellors.
ADE 201 Historical Foundation of Adult Education
Examination of the origins, growth and development of adult education movements in
and the third world countries. Description of patterns of adult education participation and the impact of the movement on socio-economic and political development.
ADE 202 Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education
Introducing philosophy of education of adult education. Consideration of the basic concepts, values and ideologies in adult education. Review of the major contemporary thinkers. Application of the methods of philosophy to the problem and issues in adult education.
ADE 203 Psychological Foundations of Adult Education
Introductory psychology of personally development and maturation. Learning theory and behaviour modification. Psychological basis of human interaction. Language development, group process and interpersonal communication. Application of psychological principles to the speciality of the individual student learning in adult education programme.
ADE 204 Principles and Practice of Adult Education
Meaning, forms and purposes of adult education in the life of every individual and its relevance to national growth. The scope of adult education practice in the international axis and its role to socio-economic development of
ADE 205 Mass Communication in Adult Education
Meaning, development and the relevance of mass communication theories to adult education. The use and misuse of mass media technologies for adult education promotion. The role of the media in society and the review of the impact of various media on different adult education programmes in the developing countries. The role and methodology communication media in distance learning programme.
ADE 206 Rural Literacy Newspaper Production
Methodology and techniques of using the rural newspaper for ensuring balanced information dissemination for encouraging rural participation in community programmes. The use of local materials in the production process and the ability to handle simple soft and hardware technologies such as silk-screening machine, Gestetfax scanning machine, etc. The depth for a and the essence of Rural Literacy and education programmes in developing countries.
ADE 207 Planning and Implementation of Community Development Projects
Community development within Lesotho National Development Plans. Fiscal Policy: Programmes, Planning and Budgeting of Community Development Projects. Accountability and Social indication. Evaluation of methods and techniques. Comparative community development approaches from cases of laissez-faire private initiative, through planned economies with integrated rural development, to socialist approaches.
ADE 208 Primer Writing Techniques
Types and roles of primers in contemporary developing and predominantly illiterate societies. Functions of Primers in Adult Literacy programmes. The efficient utilisation of primers for skill development, functional literacy and national growth and development. Primer construction methodologies.
ADE 209 Adult Education Teaching Methods and Techniques
The course deals with the concept of teaching adults as opposed to teaching adolescents. It explores the interrelationship of the process of feeling, learning and adults needs assessment for adult education curriculum development. There will be an extensive analysis of the different methods and techniques of adult learning process, such as Demonstration, discussion group, role-playing, symposium, audio-visuals aids etc.
ADE 210 Principles and Practice of Guidance and Counselling in Adult Education
The course will adopt a practical approach to the study of guidance and counseling as related to adult learners. The course will review the philosophy of guidance and counselling, educational and vocational guidance, curative and preventive guidance techniques, personality, the counseling approach to teaching, the interdisciplinary approach to guidance, classroom counseling career self-development and self concept, adult motivation and achievement.
ADE 301 Media Techniques in Community Education
Characteristics of media conceptual framework for community conscientization. Roles and techniques of media practice for community mobilization and awareness. Application of multi-media technologies for different purposes both in the rural and urban centres, e.g. for family planning. Health education, Agricultural productivity etc. The process and effects of distortion in human communication and its impact on community education in the third world countries.
ADE 302 Psychology of Adult Learning
Learning and learning theories. Psycho-physiological maturation processes: changes in recall, memorization, problem solving, ability and capacity to enhance, modify or learning new skills. Social aspect of maturing. Applications of learning theory and personality development under relation-enhancement, attitude modification, cognitive change, modelling, simulation and role-playing, operand approaches etc.
ADE 303 Organisation and Administration of Adult Education
Concepts of Organisation and Administration – Historical Development: Classical approach, Human Relations Approach and the systems Approach. Decision-making and Behavioural process of the organization. Principles and practice of administration in adult education in selected developed and developing countries.
AED 304 Research Methods in Adult Education
Introduction to methods of empirical research in humanities, philosophy, social sciences, education including adult education. Planning research work. Development type validation and use of instrumentation. Literature Review and data collection process. Writing of Research proposal, analysis of data and writing of final research report.
ADE 305 Budgeting and Financing of Adult Education Programme
Principles and practice of budgeting as related to Adult Education. Budgeting and the problem of financial control. The concept of unit cost. Using cost models in planning adult education programmes. The financial implications of adult education policies. Roles of international aid in adult education programmes. Process of evaluating cost of adult education programme.
ADE 306 Economics of Community Development
Contributions of self-help projects to economic growth and development. Measuring the contributions of community development behind public and private finances. Determinants of expenditure. Productivity and efficiency.
ADE 307 Management Techniques in Adult Education
Management theory and practice in Adult Education. Recruitment, training, division of labour and workload, motivation and supervision of personnel. Employee relations effectiveness and efficiency in Adult Education Organisation. Functions of management and communication. Leadership types, qualities and their roles in organization.
ADE 308 Adult Education, Gender and Development in
This course is designed to raise awareness about the importance of gender based approaches to development efforts both locally and internationally. The concept of gender and how it impacts various aspects of human life is reviewed. A number of gender issues like health, education, violence and abuse, access to resources, poverty and environment are explored and ways of incorporating gender sensitive plans into the development process are discussed. The role that adult education can play in promoting gender aware development underpins the discussions in this course.
ADE 309 Current Issues in Adult Education
Detailed examination of Paulo Friere’s Conscientization and Life-long education. An integrated philosophy of education, norms, values and relevance in Education and Adult Education in
ADE 310 Sociology of Adult Education
The course is designed to assess adult education as a formal social organization and as an instrument of social change and development. It reviews the theories of consensus and conflicts schools and development, diffusionism as well as focuses on migration, settlement, social inequality and socialization process. The social functions of education and adult education in society vis-à-vis the cultural consideration and social mobility in
ADE 401 Curriculum Design and Development in Adult Education
The Adults and Disciplines in Curriculum Design. Principles, practices, procedures and problems in the Development and evaluation of Curriculum studies in Adult Education programmes in developing countries.
ADE 402 Economics of Adult Education
The implementations of any adult education programme depends on solid economic base. Therefore, students will learn about the implications of economic factors such as human, capital and financial resource, formation for the production functions and for income generation activities in measuring returns and in determining cost and expenditures. Students must also know how to formulate programme implementations based on cost benefit analysis and to assess for the predicality of projects success or otherwise, using Project Evaluation Review Techniques (PERT), Planning Programming and Budgeting systems (PPBS) and Job Evaluation and Appraisal techniques (JEAT) with special reference to adult education programmes.
ADE 403 Evaluation in Adult Education
This course introduces students to the concept of evaluation in the filed of education in general and in Adult education in particular. Students are exposed to both quantitative as well as qualitative methods of evaluation. Various approaches to evaluation including objective as well as decision approaches are discussed. The final project for this course is to prepare an evaluation proposal which can later be implemented in a work situation.
ADE 404 Training and Manpower Development
Education and Training: origin and conceptual framework of training, training needs assessment and objectives including its relevance to manpower development and utilization. Types, forms and programme, Evaluation of the roles of training agencies to national manpower development and future trends of industrial training programmes in
. Case studies.
ADE 405 Practical in Adult Education: Seminars, Conferences & Workshop
This is a practical cum theoretical course that exposes students to leadership roles in different organizations. It is an aspect of the continuing education and non-formal training programmes. Students will be expected to write a preliminary conference or workshop brochures and programmes and conduct in-house conferences, workshops and seminars. There must be clarity of purpose, background, resource persons, main and sub-themes including the organisational structure as well as provision for overall programme evaluation.
ADE 406 Research Project
The student, under a department’s supervisor, is expected to undertake an in-depth study of an issue that is of interest to him/her, particularly in the areas of Adult Education, community Development and Distance Education. The Research Report which shall be type-written on quarto or A4 size paper in double line spacing shall not be less than 3,000 words in length or twenty typewritten pages.