Educational Quest- An International Journal of Education and Applied Social Sciences
Year : 2011, Volume : 2, Issue : 2
First page : ( 193) Last page : ( 196)
Print ISSN : 0976-7258. Online ISSN : 2230-7311.

Socio-economic barriers to girl-child education in Nigeria as perceived by selected teachers in Ibadan, Nigeria: implications for actualizing Vision 20:20:20

Adika Olagoke Lawrence

Department of Educational Psychology, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Nigeria

Email: lawadika@yahoo.com

Online published on 8 August, 2012.

Received:  16  May,  2011; Accepted:  6  August,  2011.

Abstract

Education in Nigeria and the world over is a vital tool for technological and economic advancement. The Nigerian government in view of this made formal education compulsory for all her citizens. However, the girl-child faces a number of challenges in obtaining the supposed compulsory education. The study investigated some socio-economic barriers to attaining formal education by the Nigerian child-girl. The study employed a descriptive survey design with a total of two-hundred (200) secondary school teachers randomly selected from four Local Government Areas in Ibadan Metropolis. A self-designed scale tagged Socio-economic Barriers of Girl-Child Access to Education Scale (SBGAES) was used in collecting data for the study. The three null hypotheses stated in the study were subjected to t-test statistical analysis at 0.05 significant level. The findings revealed that no significant differences existed in the perceptions of male and female teachers (1.66 < 1.96), old and young teachers (1.74 < 1.96) and significant difference exists in the perceptions of highly educated and moderately educated teachers (2.3 >1.96). It was recommended that the Nigerian government should enact a law banning child-marriages, which keeps children out of school.

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Keywords

Socio-Economic Barriers, Girl-Child Education, Vision 20:20:20.

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