YORUBA FOLKTALES: AN INSTRUMENT FOR SOCIO-CULTURAL EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SETTING

Abigail Temidayo Ojo

Abstract


Before the advent of western education, different cultural groupings in Nigeria and indeed Africa had practiced one form of cultural education to another, which however was not documented. Such education assisted them in the past to maintain law and order in their societies. This type of education embodied elements or features of folktales, one of the instruments creatively employed for the purpose of achieving a balanced society in Africa Tradition. It is against this background that this paper sets out to discuss an ethical oriented concept tagged “Socio Cultural Education†using the instrument of folktale from the Yoruba perspective. The paper finally concludes and recommended that “Socio-cultural Education†should be inculcate into the primary and secondary curricula and the same made compulsory. By so doing, the Nigerian child becomes exposed and prepared for a sound ethical orientation aimed at nation building at an early childhood age.

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