SOCIAL CHANGE

This study explores how poetry can be used to inspire societal change, using Adebayo Lamikanra’a Heart Sounds and Musa Idris Okpanachi’s Music of the Dead as sources of inspiration. The study examines how poets use language and poetic devices to subvert social conventions, elicit thoughts and motivate actions through an analysis of several poems. By exploring the themes of social injustice, political corruption and oppression
presented in these poems, we may reveal poetry’s innate ability to raise consciousness and spark social justice movement. The study encourages readers to appreciate poetry as not only an art form but also a potent tool for effecting positive societal change.

This study was aimed at determining the role of adult education as an agent of social change for improved standard of living in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Five research questions were raised and examined to enable the achievement of the objectives of the study. The research design for the study was the survey research design. The population of the study consisted of five hundred and seventy (570) adult learners while the sample size for the study included a total of one hundred and seventy (170) adults selected from the ten (10) communities in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The collection of data for this study was obtained using a questionnaire titled “Role of Adult Education as an Agent of Social Change for Improved Standard of Living in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State Questionnaire.” The instrument was validated using the expert judgement approach while the test-retest approach was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The data collected for the study was analyzed using descriptive statistics comprising frequency count and simple percentage. Findings from the study revealed that the people of Egor Local Government actually do participate in adult education programmes, and that adult education has made the people’s societal disposition positive or better. It was also found that adult education has not made the community people politically active, though the community people are actively involved in community issues, and that adult education has moderately improved the people’s standard of living. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that the people should be encouraged to continue their participation in adult education programmes. Efforts should be made to include or improve civic and political education in the programmes in the area so as to make them politically active, and strategies that can better the already improved standard of living should be encouraged.

This study was designed to investigate the role of civil society and social movements in promoting social change in Benin metropolis. To achieve the purpose intended for the study, four research questions were raised to guide the study. The population of this study consist of all SS 2 students in public senior secondary school in Benin Metropolis. There are 6890 students in Benin Metropolis. Egor Local government area. The sample for the study consists of 180 students drawn from three Local Government Area in Benin Metropolis (Egor, Ikpoba -Okha and Oredo). The simple random sampling techniques was used to select 3 schools each from the Local Government Areas making a total number of 9 schools. 20 students were purposively selected from each of the schools making a total of 180 students. A questionnaire titled "civil society and social movement on social change (CSSMSC)" was the instrument for data collection. The question is divided into two sections, section A talks about student demographic variable and section B was designed in to 4 points like scale formular of strongly Agree (SA), Agree(A), Disagree(D) strongly disagree (SD) and elicited comment on (The role of civil society and social movements in promoting social change in Benin Metropolis) In order to ascertain the reliability of the instrument a pilot testing was done using 20 students who are not part of the sampled population and data obtained was analyzed using the Cronbach Alpha correlation coefficient formular and a reliability coefficient of 0.69 was obtained which indicated that the instrument is reliable.