APPLICATION OF JOHN DEWEY'S AIMS OF EDUCATION TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE UBE PROGRAMME IN KOGI STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Man is a purposive animal because he acts with an aim. Man has aim(s) for all major enterprises before venturing into them. Aims are purposes for undertaking something. It is the expected result of an enterprise. According to Okafor (2006), aims are values, and like values, they are intrinsic to man since they are inevitable concomitant of man's rationality. Aims generally could mean a clearly directed intention with a view to achieving a desirable result through a well-thought plans and activities. Aims connote both intrinsic and extrinsic values. This is true because they are the reasons for any plan or action an individual or group intends to embark upon. On the part of Okeke (1989) aims denote aspiration, and planned orientation for action. Aims give one foresight ahead of time when a process will come to an end. There are personal aims and societal aims. The personal aims are subsumed in the societal aims especially at the time of the realization of each of them. For th...