EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL AND RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY IN AN URBAN NIGERIAN COMMUNITY

Abstract

This study is designed to further knowledge of the role of education in contemporary urban test African^communities0 Whereas previous studies have focused on problems of linkage between schooling and society in a variety of both specific and non-specific social contests there was recognition of a need for describing and analyzing the variety of educational processes—within and beyond the schools~-in the urban community particularly in asocial contest in which schooling is neither universal nor compulsory. Two years of field work in the urban community offside (Western Nigeria) B which has an estimated population of 130*000 and over 60 formal schools, has resulted in a description of a variety of educational processes beyond the formal schools. Field work was based on a methodology known within anthropology as “community study. This in involved initially a comprehensive physical and social napping of the community. The technique of “participant observatlon9 has produced ease studies of individuals and qualitative empirical data.