Dialogue in Historical Education: A Review of Emeritus Professor Michael Omolewa's Education Through the Rear-View Mirror

Abstract

Emeritus Professor Michael Omolewa delivered his inaugural lecture titled Education Through the Rear-View Mirror (RVM) thirty-five years ago on April 2, 1987 at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He conceptualised historical education, discussed the objections of notable personalities against the discipline of history, and established a connection between education and history by propounding the idea of the Rear-View Mirror (RVM) approach as a methodology for historical education. His raison d'etre for the adoption of the RVM concept is that historians and scholars are yet to give it due academic considerations. Educators, historians, and scholars should take up the challenge by Emeritus Professor Omolewa and develop a framework for the RVM model which will be used in Education, particularly Adult Education. It will be functional as a tool of historical empiricism in historical research method for historiography, problem solving, decision making, development planning and futurism.