The Role of Adult Education in Sustaining Cities and Communities through Innovative Technology in Nigeria

Every country of the world including Nigeria needs to imbibe the idea of innovative technology in a bid to sustain cities and communities with a view to raising the standards of living of the citizens and attending to the many challenges facing cities and communities. These challenges make it extremely difficult or impossible to fix socio-economic development and inhibiting improved standard of living of the people and outlook of cities and communities. Adults need to be carried along in sustainable development through all the laudable programmes of adult education, interjecting them with technological innovations. Technology stimulates creativity which brings along with it innovation. Lack of adequate training in technology robs adults of creativity. The paper thus looks at how introducing technological innovations into adult education would stimulate creativity in people thereby making them innovative in all areas of life so as to achieve sustainability. The paper recommends that adult education should be more funded by Nigerian government, that technological education should be introduced into all programmes of adult education, remove every hindrance to technological education from every adult learner and education should be made accessible to all so that sustainability would be achieved not only in cities and communities but in individuals and getting communities ready for future generations. [For the full proceedings, see ED597456.]