Nomadic education and its associated challenges of formal education for learning environment in Nigeria

Abstract

Education is a veritable tool for development. Without education, there will be no meaningful development of a nation such as Nigeria. Based on this, this paper focused discussions on nomadic education in Nigeria. The nomads are the itinerant, non-sedentary people having the culture of migrating from one place to another place in a large or small profession. They are people of the same clan groups who migrate in response to certain need factors in the practice of their occupation. Such movement/migration could be within a state or country of origin or beyond the state or national geographical boundaries in search of their means of livelihood occupations. This paper addresses three linage of nomads that are officially and publicly recognized in Nigeria as the pastoralists, migrant fisher folk and migrant farmers in Nigeria. However, focus on this paper is mainly on pastoralists and fisherfolk migrants who are mainly involve in grazing and fishing. This people as a clan or group have the need for formal education but this has been challenged by some factors such as indigenous traditional education, teacher factor, teacher and quality assurance, good learning environment etc. These have been summarized in this paper. Recommendations on how to improve nomadic education in Nigeria include.