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EQUALITY IN DIVERSITY AS TOOL OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA
(2024-07) TIMOTHY KAYODE TOWOJU, Ph.D,; ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM SALAHU-DEEN, Ph.D; SAFI LAWAL, Ph.D
The Nigerian Education System embraced the principle of egalitarianism as one of her objectives of education, despite the inequalities in human nature but values Education as an instrument of Social Integration, which serves as the instrument of social changes. In the light, of this paper addressed a critical examination of the concept of equality in diversity to determine its bearing on social integration. It is therefore, believed that educational be deliberately primed to promote social integration despite the diversities in human nature. The methodology of approach was conceptual analysis and this was the structural framework and the format into which philosophical arguments are fitted for proper clarification. The study would be of great values to individuals who need to understand the unity and diversities of human nature through education. The paper concluded that education can be used to promote social integration through its universal provision in all aspects such as universal provision of infrastructures despite the controversial issues of equality and diversities, it was recommended that the mind of individual learners should be trained toward the spirit of fairness to remove errors, so that individual should be treated as brotherhood.