Maintaining the Hegemonic Intercourse between Culture and Education: Towards A Decentralization of Educational Policy in Nigeria

Nigerian educational system is run with little or no respect for the deserved relationship between culture and education. With its preference for an overcentralisation and over bureaucratization of educational policy, cultural elements of each regional or ethnic multiplicities are made to suffer on the altar of one-indivisible-nation. This makes it easy to relegate indigenous languages to an optional grade in the policy. It equally makes it easy to underplay some indigenous cultural elements to the advantage of foreign values and mores. This paper contends that any educational system which adopts a centralization policy makes deep cultural values far away from the people. A decentralization of educational policy instead, paves a way for the observance of the endemic relationship between culture and education.