HISTORY OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN JEMA’A DIVISION, ZARIA PROVINCE 1910-1960 BY
HISTORY OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN JEMA’A DIVISION, ZARIA PROVINCE 1910-1960 BY
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2021-03
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SHEHU, Kazzah
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Abstract
The history of Western-oriented cum education in Nigeria was intimately bound up with the
history of Western education in Europe during and after the dark ages. After the fall of the
Roman Empire in the fifth century, the old literary and rhetorical education of the Roman era
was almost completely destroyed because it was considered pagan in spirit. The Church was
therefore not at all enthusiastic to revive it; and became indifferent to education for some time.
Soon, however, the Church saw that it could not do its own work effectively unless its adherents
were able to read and write. In no time at all it realized the advantage of an education that was
tailored to its need. As a system of education that originated from Western Europe and
penetrated to the other parts of the world after Industrial Revolution that introduced a
civilization of science and technology. Its main approach was the modernization of social life
through science and technological advancement. Western Education therefore has been
administered by various authorities in the Nigerian area, voluntary agencies or missions,
colonial „government‟ through inspectorates and departments, and later by Federal, State and
Local Government. This research has been able to bring to the open; firstly, that the introduction
of this system of education to Jema‟a Division was initially not to inculcate on the people the
knowledge of science and technology in its real sense but as a machinery for evangelization as
well as colonial domination of the area; secondly, Its introduction subsequently helped in
shaping the thoughts and behavior of the people politically, economically, religiously and
socially. This research we must note takes a critical analysis of the introduction and
development of this western-type education in Jema‟a Division and the Impact it has created in the reordering socio-political and economic set-up of the area.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF
THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF
ARTS IN HISTORY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY,
FACULTY OF ARTS,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA, NIGERIA
Keywords
HISTORY,, WESTERN EDUCATION,, JEMA’A DIVISION,, ZARIA PROVINCE,, 1910-1960.