Impact of Education in Rural Development Process (a Case Study of Mushin Local Government Council)
Chapter One
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this research is to look at the impact of education in rural development process in Munshin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
- It is also to investigate whether there is any existing relationship between education and rural development process in Munshin Local Government Area.
- Also to find out if people in rural area benefit from basic infrastructure in Munshin Local government Area.
- To determine the impact of education in rural area in Munshin Local Government Area.
- To investigate if education has improved social changes in rural area of Munshin Local Government Area.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter concern with reviewing what has been said or written directly or indirectly in relation to this work. The review of relevant literature therefore shall fall under the following heading.
- Conceptual Framework
- Models of rural development process
- Strategies of rural development process
- Practice of rural development
- Provision of basic infrastructure in rural development
- Rural development and education
Conceptual Framework
The term rural development at present means various things to various people William (1978), for a long time rural development and agricultural output were viewed as referring to the same situations. In recent years, it has been argued that agriculture is by no means the only possible occupation for rural dwellers and accordingly a new and broader view of rural development has emerged. Different definition of rural development within this broader framework exists in the literature.
Udo (1984), rural development is a process of not only increasing the level of per capital income in the rural sectors, but also the standard of living of the rural dweller, this definition goes on to observe that the standard of living depends on a complex of factors such as food and nutrition levels, health, education, housing, recreations, security and among others.
Rural development has also been define as the outcome of a series of quantitative change occurring among a given rural population and whose emerging effect indicate in time arise in the standard of living and favourable changes in the way of life of the people concerned.
According to Lele (1975),rural development implies improving living standard of the masses of the low income population residing in rural areas and making the process of their development self sustaining.
According to Todaro (1979) development implies the multi-dimensional process involving changes in structures, attitudes and institution as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality and eradication of absolute poverty. In other words, development is now viewed as a sustainable increase in the socio-economic welfare of a population.
According to Moseley Malcolm (2003), define rural development as the general process of improving the quality of life and economic wellbeing of the people living in relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. This means that rural development changes in global production and network and also increases the urbanization potential of changing the character of geographical locations.
The discussion presented above indicates clearly that rural development is associated with changes in social and economic structures, institutions, relationship and processes. In other words, rural development goes beyond agricultural and economic growth, it entails the creation and fair sharing of social and economic benefits resulting from this growth.
Models of Rural Development
Models are a skeletal representation of a theory, in other words model is the representation of reality in an idealized form on which theories are built. For the purpose of this study, the following models will be adopted.
- High input pay off model
- Incrementalist model
- Laissez faire model
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research design is the plan structure and strategy of investigation developed so as to obtain answer to research questions and control variance (Kerlinger, 1973:45).
SOURCES OF DATA
The researcher used both primary and secondary methods of data collection.
- Primary Data: This is data that is obtained first hand from the respondents. Primary data method is obtained through the administration of questionnaires and personal interviews.
- Secondary Data: secondary source of data are opinions of exports in the experts views and are obtained from related literature from private, professional ad academic libraries.
THE POPULATION STUDY
The study of population would cover residents of mushin local government area council in Lagos state. The population of the study was 552 people.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
This chapter is devoted to the presentation, analysis and interpretation of the data gathered in the course of this study. The data are based on the number of copies of the questionnaire completed and returned by the respondents. The data are presented in tables and the analysis is done using the correlation test.
CHAPTER FIVE
FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
The objectives of the study were to
- To look at the impact of education in rural development process in Munshin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
- To investigate whether there is any existing relationship between education and rural development process in Munshin Local Government Area.
- To find out if people in rural area benefit from basic infrastructure in Munshin Local government Area.
- To determine the impact of education in rural area in Munshin Local Government Area.
- To investigate if education has improved social changes in rural area of Munshin Local Government Area.
FINDINGS
Findings from the study revealed the following:
- Education helps in the development of mushin local government area of Lagos state.
- There is a significant relationship between education and provision of basic infrastructure in mushin local government area of Lagos state.
- There is a significant relationship between education and rural development in mushin local government area of Lagos state.
- There is a significant relationship between education and social changes in mushin local government area of Lagos state.
- There is a significant impact of education in the rural areas of mushin local governemtn area of Lagos.
RECOMMENDATION
As a result of the findings made from the study, it is of great importance to develop education in the rural areas as it would help in economic development and progress. A lot of developments both social and economic lies on the level of education of any society.
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