EDUCATION MANAGEMENT / SUPERVISION TOWARDS DEVELOPING ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS AMONG ADULT EDUCATION STUDENTS OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS SETTINGS

Abstract

In most African religious traditional environments, a lot of people are not formally educated; that notwithstanding, they still run their commercial businesses which demand for standard skills for proper accounting, and financial records. In order to alleviate this situation, some of the traditional religious environment settlers have enrolled in adult education programme, mostly in the rural communities. The problem that puzzles this research is that their teachers are more of those primary and secondary school teachers who have retired from service, and serving teachers who take the job as a part-time engagement. Some of their administrative officers live in the urban cities. The research has shown that these facilitators of adult education, due to their age, other engagements, and far distance to the adult education centres, have failed to achieve the expected feat in upgrading the students’ academic endowment on accounting and financial record keeping skills. Therefore, the pragmatic and assiduous involvement of experts in education management and supervision is dearly needed. The paper henceforth aims at addressing the issues associated with low academic output in adult education especially among the students in the traditional religious settings in Africa. It has been found in this paper that adult education has not been given serious attention among African states. The research employs phenomenological research methodology. Data were sourced from primary and secondary materials. Data collected were analyzed with comparative style of data analysis. It is recommended among other things that every community in African should institutionalize adult education centre independently from other school or academic system.