PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON EARLY GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION IN WAMAKKO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, SOKOTO STATE
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2023-11-01
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Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education
Abstract
This study was designed to determine the factors that hinders girl-child
Education in Wamakko local government, Sokoto State, Nigeria. and the
possible solutions. A descriptive research design was used for the study. A
total of 135 parents with girls of school-going age were selected from the
twenty-five thousand (25,000) study population, using a multi-stage
cluster sampling method. The specific objectives of this study were to
assess the factors that hinders girl-child education in Wamakko local
government area and possible solutions. Therefore, four research
question were formulated to guide the study. The instrument for data
collection was an adapted instrument title “Parental Variables on Girls'
Child Education Questionnaire (PVGCDQ)”that was administered to
students after validation and tested for reliability. Data generated from
these instruments were analyzed using descriptive statistics (SPSS). A
reliability index score of 0.85 was obtained through cronchba alfa. The
findings revealed the perception of parents that girlchild education was
against their religion and culture, poverty, co-education, parents' lack of
education, hawking amongst girls, early marriage and demand for girls'
labour at home. Based on the findings, some recommendations were
made; adequate career guidance and counselling service should be
employed to guide student especially the female, the importance of
education and more awareness campaign for improvement in girl-child
education that will involve both traditional and religious leaders as they
exert great influence upon their people.