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Education for pastoralists

Lesson learned in providing basic pre-service teacher training to nomadic pastoral youths: the course at the federal college of education Yola

Pre-service courses for teachers among pastoralist communities in Nigeria: what is required

Authors: A. Muhammad
Publisher: IEC-DFID virtual and physical conference: Education for Nomads, Pastoralists and Migrant Fisherfolk. International Extension College , 2001

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This article looks at the background of pre-service courses for teachers among pastoralist communities.

The article finds that:

  • the nomadic pastoralists alienation from effective participation in education is largely due to their peculiar way of life
  • the teacher supply and retention factor was strongly observed as one of the most critical problems affecting the education of the nomads
  • the project’s main objective was the address the issue of the teacher factor supply and retention
  • the programme successfully trained and graduated 56 teachers from the nomadic pastoralist communities
  • all the trained teachers by the programme have been posted to their respective communities as nomadic teachers by states and LGAs