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Influence Of Adult Education On Family Planning
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1.1Introduction/Background to the Study
Adult education has been given varying definitions by many scholars and organisations.
UNESCO
(1976) defined adult education as denoting “the entire body and
organised educational process, whatever the content the level of method
whether formal or otherwise, whether prolong or replace initial
education in schools, colleges and universities as well as
apprenticeship, whereby persons regarded as adult by the society to
which they belong develop their abilities, which their knowledge,
improve their technical and professional qualifications and bring about
changes in their attitudes or behaviour in the two fold perspective of
full personal development, participation, balanced and independent
social, economic and cultural development.
“Adult Education is a
process whereby persons who no longer attend school on a regular and
full time basis (unless full home programmes are especially designed for
adult) undertake sequential and organised activities with conscious
intention of bringing about change in information, knowledge,
undertakings of skills, appreciation and attitudes or for the purpose of
identifying and serving personal or community problemâ€.
According to
Onuoha (1990), programes that are adult education based are
agricultural and farmers training programme, adult literacy programmes,
occupational skill training, youth clubs, various community development
programmes, programmes of instruction in health, nutrition, family
planning co-operatives etc. These programmes, Onuhoa went further, are
for the creation of awareness, passage of necessary information and the
enhancement of individual development, growth and social well beings.
People
have consciously or unconsciously engaged themselves in family planning
throughout history. Abstinence either life long or temporary and
prohibitions, forbidden intercourse during certain festivals,
effectively curtail the fertility rate (the number of life birth for
each woman during her life time) (Barns 1990). Also separation of
husbands from their wives for long period of time either because of war
or employment, curtail the birth rate and fertility.
According to
Nnadi (1994) abortion has been used to limit family size and
descriptions can be found in the herbal and other folklores of women and
midwives of most societies. The deliberate abandonment of infants and
young children even killing of new borns has not been uncommon in the
past or even in some areas of the world today (Hooday, 1993).
Adult
education programes especially on health matters like family planning is
an important programme that is intended to touch the lives of the
people, especially couples and other sexually active youths in the
society. Family planning, using adult education programme enables the
adults who are still sexually active to know when to engage in sexual
acts, what system to use and the best method of contraceptives to apply
in curtailing fertility or birth rate. Therefore, adults more especially
couples who engage themselves in adult education programmes would in
any case avail themselves of the opportunity of curtailing their family
size, avoiding abortion and being able to space their child birth rate
(Anyanwu, 1994).
1.2Historical Background of Family Planning
The
technique of family planning, over the centuries have simply been
modified, Himes (1936) notes tat the earlier premature people used some
magical nature powers to help women control pregnancies and to regulate
birth.
The Greeks employed crocodile drugs as diaphragm olive and
cedar oil were use as jelly. Under Emperor Augustus, the Romans employed
the laws to stimulate population growth.
In Britain, especially, as
time passed, several interpretations came to be attached to the notion
of family planning. There were several arrests, detentions and
imprisonment of people who dared practice of talk of family planning.
Amongst
the martyrs include Kuwoeiton, Bradlaugh who were imprisoned for
publishing the “Fruits of Philosophy†(an influential tract on birth
control) and “preventive sexual intercourse†respectively (Brackett,
1962).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study attempted to investigate the influence of adult education on family planing in Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study also reviewed relevant and extensive literatures under sub-headings. The descriptive research survey design was employed in this study in order to assess the opinions of the respondents with the application of questionnaire and the sampling technique. A total of 160 (one hundred and sixty) respondents were selected as samples representing the entire popul ... Continue reading---
