EXISTENTIALISM AND ITS IMPLICATION TO EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

This paper examines existentialisms and its implications to Education in Nigeria. The success and failure of any educational system in the world largely depends on the teachers, for they are the hub of the educational system. There is, therefore, no doubt that the services of teachers in schools are indispensable and critical to the nature future, and the kind of individuals required of the society. Existentialism examines the role of individual play in terms of his or her feeling thoughts and responsibilities. The paper x-rays the concept of existentialism looked into existentialism in Nigeria cultural context and attempted the aims of socialism process in Nigeria schools as well as its application in Nigerian schools. The paper examines the roles of the school teacher and made some useful recommendations that the Nigerian society, Schools must provide and create an enabling environment for the learners to grow, be it at low levels or advanced levels. Thus, the curriculum teachers, teaching ads resources, buildings, amongst others must be structurally in place for the sustainability and transformations of the learners.