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A Brief Social History of Education in Nigeria

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Schools in Nigeria have not always been very different from learning at home. Over time, however schools became the institutional instruments for the separation of education from home and from the society within which it was originally situated.

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Jacob, JU., Ensign, M. (2020). A Brief Social History of Education in Nigeria. In: Transactional Radio Instruction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32369-1_1

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