The Role of Education in Ensuring Gender Equality and Its Effect on the Society
Chapter One
Research Objective
This study was carried out with the following objectives:
- To find how education can change values and promote gender equality
- To determine how sex segregation in education is a risk to society
- To find out the extent how which society has embraced gender equality
- To find out the benefits of gender equality in the society
- To identify the role of education in empowering/enlightening people to know and exercise their human rights
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
The chapter deals with the aspect of the concept and nature of girl-child education in Nigeria the impediments to participation in western education by girl-child the attitude of parents towards girl-child education.
CONCEPT AND NATURE OF GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
The project intends to look in to various literatures from libraries that researcher on parent’s attitude to girl-child education and girl-child education generally.
This chapter tends to bring out what others have said about the topic through books, journals and magazines. There are five ways we shall examine the importance of education to girl-child.
The third national Development plan declared that consideration of justice and quality demands equalization to education opportunities to enables every Nigeria child to have co-operatives opportunities for self development and fulfillments irrespective of where he or she lives not withstanding the economic and social circumstances in to which he or she has been born (F.G.N 1977).
The National policy on education (2004) stipulated that basic education must be provided when ever more people are and who ever may be (F.G.N 1977). These and other official consideration led to a wide spread expansion and universalation of access to basic education which necessitated the introduction of U.P.E scheme in 1976. Indeed there are sample evidence to suggest that modern school structure have been reasonably well established in most parts of Kebbi State.
However, despite the very extensive network of school established through out the State over the last few years of the creation of the State. The goal of the universal primary education which stresses 100% enrolment rate remains exclusive in Dakingari Suru Local Government. A statistical figure published by the federal ministry of education has revealed that only 27.5% of primary school.
This saws that a little more than a quarter of school age population could go to school. However the official statistics is primary school in the State are girls. The gap even gets wider and wider as children more along educational ladder as few girls becomes even fewer, parents will allow their daughter, to divide their lives between home and school life. From the Islamic point of view which it role dominate religious. The viewed importance of girl-child education was fully elaborated in news paper of 1st June 1999 that all prophetion traditions stipulates that the searcher for knowledge is compulsory for every Muslims male and female. Allah (S.W.A) has declared in the holy Qur’an that I have only created Jinn and man that they should worship one 951:56. Worship here is not restricted to the physical performance of religions virtue alone abut it embraces all aspects of human activities through feeling and work which are in conformity with the Qur’an and Sunnah. Then if male and female are not spiritually and morally equipped from all these how will they be able to perform the obligation to Allah to themselves and to humanity? Many verses of the Holy Qur’an showing the important of knowledge. In fact Islam considers education as the basic of human development and key to the growth of culture and civilization.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter is an outline of how the study was conducted in line with the following haedings:
Research Design
The research design used in this study is descriptive research design, it was used to find out the impact of education in ensuring gender equality process through a structure questionnaire. Under this design primary data are collected from a sample member that represents the general population.
Data are collected directly from the respondent who provided the information in the natural setting of the study.
Population
The population for this study is all the seventy (70) senior staff members of Oredo Local Government council of Edo State.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, we aim to present the data collected during the course of the study, in a form that will be easily comprehensible. This chapter also attempts to analyze and interpret the outcome of the ordinary least square which was adopted as the statistical tool for this study.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
As indicated earlier in chapter one of the research project, the study is attempt to investigate the impact of education in ensuring gender equality process in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
In order to ensure proper and adequate verification of the objective of the study as stated above the following research questions were stated:
- Is there any relationship between education and provision of basic infrastructure in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State?
- Is there any relationship between education and ensuring gender equality process in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State?
- Is there any impact of education in ensuring gender equality process in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State?
- Is there any difference between education and social changes in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State?
The hypotheses that emerge from the above research questions were:
- There is no significant relationship between education and provision of basic infrastructure in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
- There is no significant relationship between education and ensuring gender equality process in O redo Local Government Area of Edo State.
- There is no significant impact of education in rural area in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
- There is no significant difference between education and social changes in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
This study was based on the investigation that education has an impact in ensuring gender equality process.
Secondly, that education has relationship with provision of basic infrastructure. The study therefore becomes beneficiaries to both the council, students of both secondary and higher institutions, teachers and the ministries of education.
The study in actual fact was made to cover all the senior staffs in Oredo Local Government Council in Edo State, but because of financial constraint, only forty (40) senior staffs were used.
The study was carried out through the use of questionnaire, the questionnaires were administered to the respondents in their offices, the data collected were analyzed using the multiple regression.
Our findings however revealed that a significant relationship exists between educations, ensuring gender equality process and provision of basic infrastructure; however there was no significant impact of education and rural area studied and finally, our tests revealed that there is a significant difference between education and social changes.
Conclusion
Considering the findings of the study, one could conclude that the impact of education in ensuring gender equality process has significant relationship with provision of basic infrastructure, but to a large extent there is difference between education and social changes.
Recommendation
Judging from the research findings, the following recommendations could be made:
The government should help to provide needed materials for effective and efficient education in gender , the needed materials includes: textbooks, computers and teaching aids. This will facilitate educational system in ensuring gender equality process.
The ministries of education should assist in training teachers in the schools in gender thereby making the educational system in gender more attractive to avoid rural-urban migration in terms of adequate and intensive education. Also well trained teachers should be sent to the gender .
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