An Assessment of Parents’ Attitudes Towards Girl-child Education
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are to:
- Determine the influence of parental income on Girl-Child Education in selected local government areas of Kaduna state.
- Examine the extent to which parental interest on academic work influence the Girl-Child‟s Education in selected local government areas of Kaduna state.
- Examine the influence of parental educational background on the Girl-Child Education in selected local government areas of Kaduna state.
- Examine the influence of family size on the Girl-child education in Kaduna state.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
This chapter reviews the literature on an assessment of parents’ attitudes towards girl child education. It discusses issues arising from the topic of discuss as viewed from different perspectives, with a view of giving a theoretical and empirical foundation to the study.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The theoretical framework for this study is based on the theory of education as a human right. The right to education is recognized as a human right and is understood to mean a universal entitlement. Abdu (2011:41) is of the view that Education is generally considered to be one of the core rights, as it is a fundamental gateway to other rights. It sets the basis for achieving other rights. The observation of the researcher as far as the assertion of Abdu on education as core right and fundamental gate way to other right can seen as a challenge to the weak in our society today because the situation today is what the wise says” the survival of the fittest” in this case the core right may be denied to some of us especially the vulnerable due to the fact that already other strong factors have affected the accessibility to education to some. Therefore, for education to really be a right and a fundamental to other right for that matter, Stakeholders must do something to make education accessible to everyone. Childhood is the beginning of our humanization, requiring care, proper attention and commitments from the family, communities and the state. According to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the right to education includes the right to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all, in particular by the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education. The right to education also includes a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education. In addition to these access to education provisions, the right to education encompasses the obligation to rule out discrimination at all levels of the educational system, to set minimum standards and to improve quality of education. The right to education has been universally recognized since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 (though referred to by the ILO as early as the 1920s) and has since been enshrined in various international conventions, national constitutions and development plans. However, while the vast majority of countries have signed up to, and ratified, international conventions (such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) far fewer have integrated these rights into their national constitutions or provided the legislative and administrative frameworks to ensure that these rights are realized in practice. In some cases the right exists along with the assumption that the user should pay for this right, undermining the very concept of a right. In others, the right exists in theory but there is no capacity to implement this right in practice. Inevitably, a lack of government support for the right to education hits the poorest hardest. Today, the right to education is still denied to millions around the world. Gender inequality in education is extreme. Girls are less likely to access school, to remain in school or to achieve in education. Two thirds of the world’s 781 million illiterate adults are women. There is an urgent need for affirmative action to challenge this rights abuse, and such action is encouraged through international law.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to a critical analysis of an assessment of parents attitudes towards girl child education
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information a critical analysis of parents’ attitude towards girl child education. 200 staff of some selected local government in kaduna State were selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
DATA ANALYSIS
The data collected from the respondents were analyzed in tabular form with simple percentage for easy understanding.
A total of 133(one hundred and thirty three) questionnaires were distributed and 133 questionnaires were returned.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain a critical analysis of parents’ attitude towards girl child education.
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations are made, which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefit in addressing the challenges of girl child education.
Summary
This study aimed at having a critical analysis of parents’ attitude towards girl child education. Four objectives were raised. These objectives include: Determine the influence of parental income on Girl-Child Education in selected local government areas of Kaduna state, examine the extent to which parental interest on academic work influence the Girl-Child‟s Education in selected local government areas of Kaduna state, examine the influence of parental educational background on the Girl-Child Education in selected local government areas of Kaduna state, examine the influence of family size on the Girl-child education in Kaduna state.
Conclusion
Based on the above findings pertaining to the objectives of the study the following conclusions are drawn.
It has been reported that Parental involvement and support has a great deal of influence on girls‟ participation and level of success attained in education. Parents‟ neglect can also play important role in the failure of their children. Parents‟ involvement were said to influence by so many factors ranging from Ignorance, poverty, cultural factors, distance between the home and location of the school, perceived utility value of education among others. In view of the falling standard of education and the decreasing level of girl child education, the research decided to investigate the influence of parental involvement in their girl child education within the state.
Recommendation
- Parents should realize that education of girl-child is important.
- Educated girl-child as women were not only useful to the society but useful to their parent and children first.
- The role of woman or girl-child is more than marrying and household keeping or engaging in exploitive activities like hawking of good in the streets and so parents should not hesitate in training girl -children.
- Teachers and school, principals should engage in en1ightening the parents on the need for girl-child education for community and societal development. They should do that through PTA meetings or conducting a voluntary mobilization of the community members.
- Equipment and facilities are needed for effective girl-child education. Enrolment and retention in schools is very necessary. vii. Government should make school fees for girl-children to be free.
- Scholarship to girl-children is highly needed to both National and overseas education.
- Government should enact and implement laws governing like hawking and early marriage of the girl-child.
- There should be guidance and counseling services at schools in other to advice both parents and the girl-child in schools.
- Parents’ should not hesitate in providing equal education to their children irrespective of sex or gender.
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