DEMOCRACY AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF ADULT EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

The paper focused on democracy and professionalization of adult education in Nigeria. It highlighted the concepts of democracy, professionalization, adult and adult education. It illustrated the outcomes of adult education, its characteristics and how adult education can be professionalized. The paper made some recommendations and concluded that democracy is a brother to professionalization and for adult education to be professionalized, there is need to ensure that clients in adult education and its programmes are fine-tuned to meet the challenging needs of Nigerian society especially in this 21st century.