Evaluation of Components of Adult Education On The Inmates' Welfare In Agodi Prison Yard, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
The purpose of this study is to evaluate components of adult education programmes on the inmates welfare in Agodi prison yard, Ibadan Nigeria. Survey research was utilized in order to carry-out the study. The respondents were divided into two groups: one hundred and seventy (170) inmates (awaiting trials and convicts) and twenty-five (25) facilitators were sampled. Four research questions were generated from the literature review. Questionnaire on adult education programmes in the prison and responses elicited from respondents were numerically, quantified, tabulated and analyzed using the Likert scale. The analysis showed that: basic literacy, vocational, computer and religious education programmes were the components/ types of adult education programmes provided for the prison inmates; there was inadequate welfare and vocational materials; non-existence of educational unit in the prison; coupled with unqualified resource persons or facilitator to impart the knowledge; and government were not funding adult education programmes adequately in the prison. Based on the findings, it is recommended that effort should be made towards providing adequate funds from all tiers of government (federal, state, local government) and non-governmental agencies for adult education programmes in the prison. It is high time educational unit is separated from welfare department to ensure effective delivery of educational programmes in the prison and, specially trained facilitators should be recruited whose salaries will be comparable with those in public institutions in order to realize the potency of adult education programmes in the prison. Keywords : Adult education programmes, Prison inmates, convicts, awaiting trial, crime.
Prison Education in Nigeria
This chapter explores prison education in Nigeria and examines its history, programs, methods, and challenges. It makes the point that prison services and education are not alien to the Nigerian and African settings. However, whereas traditional African prison education emphasizes restorative justice and learning, modern prison services tend to amplify punishment. While rehabilitation is one goal of incarceration, an all-inclusive prison education in Nigeria is still at a nascent stage. The chapter suggests ways of improving current practices and consolidating gains through specific interventions and researches.
CATARACT: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
The earliest extant description of a surgical operation for the cure of cataract is that of Celsus, toho practiced medicine in Rome at the beginning of the Christian era. In his text De Meclicina he described in detail his method of couching, by which he inserted a bronze needle into the eye at the equator on the lateral side of ihe globe and depressed the cataract downward into the lower part of the vitreous where the surgeon hoped it would remain out of the way of vision. The same method had been employed by the Greeks and Hindus for at least several hundred years earlier and ivas to continue as the only operation available until the middle of the eighteenth century when Daviel of Paris described extraction of the lens through the cornea. The early couchers worked on the premise that the crystallin humor we know as the lens was the receptor for vision, and that in certain conditions of disease a suffusion flowed doivn in front of the crystallin humor where it solidified and formed a dense curtain. The purpose of couching was to press the hardened corrupt humor out of the way of the lens. That cataract was opaque material within the lens itself was not recognized until after the middle of ihe seventeenth century. Until then ihe surgeons were not even aware that it was the lens they were dislocating.