摘要：The paper examined the role o f adult education for the marginalized groups. The groups include women, children, school dropout and the disabled to mentio n but a few. The study was carried out in three states of Nigeria namely O yo, Ogun and Ekiti States in the south western p art of Nigeria. The population for the study was all the seeming marginalized groups in these states out o f which a sample of 251 was used. A self developed questionnaire was used to generate responses from the subjects and the data collected were analysed using chi-square statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that the rights of the marginalized are trampled upon due to lack of proper education and so the study recommended that exposure of the marginalized groups to non-formal adult education would go a long way in raising their already low-self-esteem to a level where they would be involved in enlightened participation in socio-political and economic issues of their societies.
