{"id":13780,"date":"2017-03-03T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13780"},"modified":"2017-11-24T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:23:35","slug":"oyedeji-professor-lekan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oyedeji-professor-lekan\/","title":{"rendered":"OYEDEJI, Prof. Lekan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MBA, Ph.D, educationist, bom November 10, 1935, Ibadan, Oyo State, married Toyin, 1959, three sons, four daughters; Education: Olu- Iwa College (now Adeola Odutola College), Ijebu-Ode, 1953-56, St Andrew&#8217;s College, Oyo, 1957-58, University of Ibadan, 1961- 62, 1964-65, New York University, USA, 1967-68, 1971-72; Career: Appointed Teacher, Olu-Iwa College, Ijebu-Ode, 1959- 61; Programme Manager, FGN-Middle Belt Programme, Ilorin, June 1998-date; Teacher, Adeola Odutola College, Ijebu-Ode, 1965- 66; Teacher, United Nations International School, New York, USA, 1966-70; Lecturer, City University ofNew York, 1970-73; Lec turer, University of Lagos, 1974-76; Senior Lecturer, 1976-84; Head, Department of Adult Education, University of Lagos, 1979- 81, 1982-85; Associate Professor, University of Lagos, 1984-87; appointed Professor of Adult Education, 1986-95; Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, 1987-91; President, University of Ibadan Students&#8217; Union, 1963-64; National President, Nige rian Students Union in the Americas, 1968- 69; member, African Association of Literacy and Adult Education; member, Common wealth Association for the Education &#038; Training of Adults; member, Congress of University Adult Education; member, International Council for Adult Education; member, International Community Education Association; Adult Education Consultant, Federal Government of Nigeria\/European Economic Community &#8212; Middle Belt Programme, 1991-96; Acting Programme Co-ordinator, FGN\/C &#8211; Middle Belt Programme, 1993-96; Programme Manager, FGN\/EEC &#8211; Middle Belt Programme, Ilorin, 1998-date; Publications: Co-author, A Handbook of Literacy Education for West Africa, Longman, Lagos, 1982; UPE in Ni geria: Its Implicationfor National Develop ment, University Press, Lagos, 1983; Co author, An Adult Functional Literacy Manual, Universal Press, Ibadan, 1985; Hobbies: table tennis, indoor games, farm ing; Official Address: 7, Achimugu Road, PO Box 6588, Ilorin; Telephone: 031-224- 027, 226-325; Home: 4, Asa Road, Ilorin, Kwara State; Telephone: 031-222-433.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13780","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13780"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}