DISCOURSE OF PECULIARITIES IN THE ATTRIBUTES OF TRADITIONAL EDUCATION IN THREE NIGERIAN ETHNIC GROUPS

Abstract

The article presents an expository description of the core attributes of traditional education in each of the 
three major ethnic groups of Nigeria. It is a comprehensive discourse of the uniqueness of the elements of 
curriculum, instructional materials, teaching strategies, classroom, teacher and evaluation in the rubrics of 
the culture of these ethnic groups. Specifically, the paper focuses on the peculiarities in the systems of 
traditional education in Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo societies. The article conclusively asserts that traditional 
education is peculiar to societies and it is the bedrock upon which other forms of education in any given 
society are built.