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Papers by Awwalu Muhammad Inuwa PhD

Pendidikan dianggap sebagai suatu cara bagi melatih, memperkasa, mendidik dan memupuk sikap kemas... more Pendidikan dianggap sebagai suatu cara bagi melatih, memperkasa, mendidik dan memupuk sikap kemasyarakatan dalam kalangan golongan muda di Nigeria dalam memelihara norma serta nilai-nilai (moden dan tradisional) kemasyarakatan. Education in Nigeria is an avenue for training, empowering, education and socializing the young adult to preserve the norms and values of the society (traditional and modern)

ATBU Journal of Science, Technology and Education, 2015

The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental supp... more The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental support, shortages of educational structures, teaching and learning material/facilities in Sokoto State Nigeria. These educational shortcomings are strongly associated to home/family, all schools related factors, and these are summarised as important factors to the success of students and schools. The nature of school challenges has resulted to students’ dropouts and educational support which can be productive or unproductive is associated to students pre-requisite learning conditions like; teachers’ pedagogies, school general climatic conditions and parental supports. The study used open ended interview questions to extract information, as pragmatic ways of sourcing for information on how to improve JSS learning conditions and prevent the phenomenon of dropout. This was done with groups of 48 interviewees comprising students, parents, principal and zonal coordinators. A thematic qualitative...

The study seeks to identify the possibilities of home and schools multiples factors as they best ... more The study seeks to identify the possibilities of home and schools multiples factors as they best predict student’s dropouts in Sokoto Nigeria. The study was restricted to 30 junior secondary schools and to class two (JSS2) alone using simple random sampling method. The entire participants were categorically two groups (in school students [non-dropouts, 390]) and dropout’s students. Each group was has [390x 2 =780, Yes and No, 780] (i.e., dropouts students and their parents), the total population was 1560, they all responded to adapted research instrument. Logistic regression was used to explore the best predicted factors among the study identified multiple variables under home (parents occupation, social economic support, residential location, religious) and school factors(school culture, classroom environment or ecology, school building/structures, school administration).The findings indicated that parents social economic support is the first best predictor on students dropouts fro...

The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dro... more The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dropouts students, parents for dropouts and non-dropouts students respectively in schools of Sokoto metropolis. This was inspired by the high rise of students ’ dropouts in Sokoto state, Nigeria. Technically, dropouts and non-dropouts teaching and learning issues were associated to challenges of school cultures on students. Survey method was adapted, which used questionnaire for data collected, from a population of 1560, which included 30 junior secondary school students (JSS). A One-way analysis of variance was conducted for the research and the result was significant (sig) at the 0.05 level. Findings of the study suggested that school cultural factors influenced junior secondary school students (JSS) dropouts and non-dropouts in schools based on the four groups perspectives compared in Sokoto metropolis Nigeria.

Journal of Education and Practice, 2014

A study on parental and school climate factors was conducted using an adapted instrument, which w... more A study on parental and school climate factors was conducted using an adapted instrument, which was tagged parental and school climate scale (PFSCS, with Alpha cronbach of .852).The intention was to observe the scale constructs on JSS Muslim students dropout and non-dropout, whose total population was 1560, consisting four groups (390 each) in Sokoto metropolis. Studies of other instruments signify that parental and school climate factors cannot be studied using conventional existing instruments reviewed from literatures and theories. This is because of existing differences in sociocultural, religious, economic and political of Sokoto and other global communities. To this background the paper extracted and present adapted research instrument for the parental and school climate factors in Northern Nigeria and indeed Sokoto state. The instrument PFSCS is with 60 items, seven constructs with an Alpha cronbach as follows ([PSES, .602] [PRLOC, .796] [PREBL, .864] [SCHLCUL, .846] [CLSSEC...

This paper discusses the challenges Nigerian teachers are facing in public secondary schools [Gov... more This paper discusses the challenges Nigerian teachers are facing in public secondary schools [Government owned schools] and its effects on the present rising students dropouts. Secondary school in Nigeria is an educational stage to be attended by students after primary school and before tertiary institutions. This is a period for youth direction on subject specialization, leading to issues of professionalization base on subject compartmentalization and choice of higher institution. The significance attached to this requires productive school climate with efficient resources for teaching and learning. Nigeria public secondary schools climate are facing the challenges of inadequate professional capability, poor school preparatory ground and absence of facilities to cater for students. In terms of curriculum contents there is a total mismatch between stated policy on education and the provision of teaching facilities and structural preparation. These over stretched public secondary sch...

Research on humanities and social sciences, 2013

The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dro... more The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dropouts students, parents for dropouts and non-dropouts students respectively in schools of Sokoto metropolis. This was inspired by the high rise of students’ dropouts in Sokoto state, Nigeria. Technically, dropouts and non-dropouts teaching and learning issues were associated to challenges of school cultures on students. Survey method was adapted, which used questionnaire for data collected, from a population of 1560, which included 30 junior secondary school students (JSS). A One-way analysis of variance was conducted for the research and the result was significant (sig) at the 0.05 level. Findings of the study suggested that school cultural factors influenced junior secondary school students (JSS) dropouts and non-dropouts in schools based on the four groups perspectives compared in Sokoto metropolis Nigeria. Keywords: School culture, Dropouts, Non-dropouts, Sokoto metropolis, School en...

This paper is on re-theorizing Nigerian school functions for predicting institutional accountabil... more This paper is on re-theorizing Nigerian school functions for predicting institutional accountability on students' dropouts. The argument centres on the fact that the traditional position of community members on education institution and school system (primary, secondary and tertiary) is that, schools are accountable for success or failure of students. This, for ages was over stressed and make other institutions and their subs not to be accountable for their interdependent roles to the schools. The strong trust on schools overwhelmed the weakness it resulted to on few other individuals during the process of educating, certificating, classifying and social placement of students on the basis of equity of opportunity at the expense of individual differences in socio-academic ability. It is true that education institutions are to be accounted for their responsibilities but did not mean it operates independently from other social institutions in society. Therefore, both the individual schooling system and student rely on social system for its productive outcome, by making it to be accountable to other subsystems. This call for re-theorizing of the position of institutions services to society and the expectations of individual and societies from institutions. Despite the fact that educational institutions and its climate are accountable for student's success, failure, retention, completion and student's dropout, it should be noted that the school functional system cannot give an account of (success, failure, productive, morals, and their vices) alone. This is because, social systems expectations from the education institutions should be redirected with limitations of outcome, while some are from the schools many other factors on the students are the manifestations of the other interdependent institution and their subs. Both education and other social system should be accountable for students who dropout, succeed or remain unproductive to society. The effects of institutional accountabilities are on all the majors and subsystems of society.

African International Journal of Education Administration and Policy, 2016

This paper has examined specific education policies and their effect on Nigerian development. The... more This paper has examined specific education policies and their effect on Nigerian development. The evolution of educational policies during the colonial era with its strengths, weakness and flaws were analyzed. The attempt made to correct the anomalies resulted in the 1922 Phelps Stokes Commission and the 1925 memorandum. The authors analyzed the emerging focus on higher education policies examining Elliot, Ashby Commission which as a blueprint tagged Investment in Education served Nigeria for thirty years. The strategic role of the commission as pertain to funding patterns and roles of higher and their supervisory agencies were discussed. The importance of curbing the threat posed to the nation were highlighted by the need of education of the Almajiri envisaged as necessary for national transformation. The adults as learners in a professional learning community was stressed and the Almajiri education that means allowing pupils in the northern Nigeria to acquire western and Islamic education simultaneously has become imperative.

This p a p e r is on M eta th eo ry's perspective o f functionalist view oh deviance in schools: ... more This p a p e r is on M eta th eo ry's perspective o f functionalist view oh deviance in schools: P rospect f o r the future o f Nigerian schools. Sociologists o f education explore alm ost all social problem s in schools, o f which many are manifestation o f societal behaviours, among which are deviant a ct (anti social behaviour). The p a p er uses M eta theoretical perception to study the functionalist idea o f deviance in N igerian schools. Single sociological theory has fa il to y ie ld g o o d result; therefore meta theory stands a better chance as it is the amalgam o f tw o or m ore theories in the study o f one social problem. The p a p e r adopted M eta theory on the functionalist view o f deviance as it relates to N igerian schools. The M eta theoretical perception o f functionalist view on deviance in schools is highlighted. Among which deviance function to prom ote the unification o f values by revisiting the strength o f social rules and its dysfunction causes treat to school authority, and the prosp ect is that deviance are view from multiple dimensions, therefore, resolved to a d o p t various strategies to curtail deviance problem s. Among the recommendation emanating from M eta theory are; the social gap and social stratification that exist in society should by no means influence school activities as this frustrate som e students to stray, an d teachers should desist from labeling students with negative names, because such attitude helps in prom oting deviant acts and negative self-fulfillment proph ecy among students.

This paper is on challenges and prospects in sustaining foundation education in Nigeria. The pres... more This paper is on challenges and prospects in sustaining foundation education in Nigeria. The present chorus o f disapproval o f Nigerians on education quality, low productivity from school leavers and graduates and a total setback o f the entire school and schooling products and processes is at the peak. As a result, this paper viewed the general problems o f Nigerian education right fi-om the foundational level, the micro stage o f plan, implementation and provision. To this background the paper stresses on the importance o f foundation education, presents the meaning and outlined, logical steps to fortify the pledge o f the universalization o f foundation education in Nigeria. A highlight on early foundation o f education was given, challenges facing efficien t foundation education were stated and proposed strategies to re-strength and build up strong foundation education was provided. Among the prospect fo r the future foundation education is implementing a properly planed foundation education that will bridge the gap o f inequality among school children, improve on contents and structures o f teaching and learning to promote self-reliance kind o f education, with the vision o f vocationalizing educational contents. Therefore a progressive foundation education should embrace social change and trot to be stagnant in nature.

This p a p e r is on providing quality education f o r social reintegration in Nigeria: An inspir... more This p a p e r is on providing quality education f o r social reintegration in Nigeria: An inspiration from the national p o licy on education. It will not be out o f place to say that Nigerian ethnic and regional tensions were magnified by socio-econom ic and po litica l differences, because appropriate teaching o f unity in the light o f integrated resource developm ent is presently fadin g aw ay from Nigerian schools. This p a p er highlights on countryw ide unity as contained in N ational P olicy on Education and identifies som e obstacles to unity like; economic, political, communal fa cto rs and deficiency o f p ro p er education statements. It conceptualizes quality education, and quality education f o r national unity. Thus, the p a p e r argues that the content and instruction should encom pass an ideological fre e m inded intent and content, divorced from the old segm ented feelin gs o f regionalism, ethnicism an d statism. It how ever recomm ends that; social philosophy o f the national p o licy on education should remain a tool f o r national unity, NPE should introduce and stress on law s against discrim ination in educational institutions. Also education should be accessible, to every child irrespective o f sex, status, tribe and regional location in Nigeria.

Empowering Individual through Educational Strategies for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria, 2010

This paper posits that education is to develop the various skills of people and build up their kn... more This paper posits that education is to develop the various skills of people and build up their knowledge for development in society, through customary educational institutions with different progremme. This makes education the only prospective empowering tool for lessening poverty in Nigerian. Edification is geared toward establishing individual to be industrious, self dependent and be meaningful to the nation. This paper recognizes the place of education in National Policy on education, by conceptualizing it, the role of education toward the process of development was tinted, the concept empowerment was captured, empowerment and ways of empowering the individual for the reduction of poverty and improve development via educational strategies were sighted. Recommendations were prepared, that education should maintain its position of being a fundamental piece for human development. Educational institutions should by all means educate Nigerian citizens for empowerment, with modern skills and technology. It should embrace new methods of teaching, by means of innovation, improvisation and utilization of local resources at individual rich to contribute to mainstream development, for poverty reduction in Nigerian society. Introduction Education is a generic term in spite of the ways and nature of its delivery, either by formal composition of educating, enlightening or empowering the individual to acquire skills or have information. These include vocational skills and literacy progremme designed to cater for societal needs to reduce dependency. The general goal of education in societies is to strengthen the social, economic and political sectors, by improving on the existing strategies for societal permanence. To Federal Republic of Nigeria [FGN] (2004), the socio-cultural milieu, means of economic development and empowerment of people, the political responsiveness and general infrastructural development of society depends on its educational system and might. To Aggarwal (2006), this implies that the general well-being of a society relies strongly on its course of action and social philosophy of education. Education should be seen as not regional, it is based on the underlying principles of reducing and eliminating poverty, reduction of illiteracy and providing equal opportunity for the individual to have access to basic literacy of education programme. Any educational composition or programme of the society that gears to prosper must incorporate the entire citizens in planning and execution of the nation's plans. FGN (2004, p.7) outlined that; a. Education is an instrument for national development, to this end, the formulation of ideas, their integration for national development, and the interaction of persons and ideas are all aspects of education. b. Education fosters the worth and development of the individual, for each individuals sake, and for the general development of society.

Parents Occupation and Students Basics Education Sustainability In Urban Area in Sokoto State Nigeria, 2020

The possible limitations for the ability of parents' occupation to support student's basic educat... more The possible limitations for the ability of parents' occupation to support student's basic education was examined in urban areas Sokoto state Nigeria. The paper argued that, despite the universalization or democratization of access to basic education and to be free and compulsory, the rate of students' dropout is at the increase yearly. This is associated to various parents' ability or inability to sponsor children education, which is predetermined by the nature of parents' occupation. The study used parental factors and school climate scale to collect data from two groups (students/parents of dropouts & non-dropouts), each respondent was 780. Chi-square cross tabulation was used to examined the relationship of various parents' occupations (civil servant, business, workers of private organisation, non-worker) on students' basic education. The finding suggested an influential relationship of various natures of parents' occupations on the limitations of children education, by either influencing dropouts from school or supporting non-dropouts to complete schooling. Apparently, parents' occupation, which determined income and prophesizes social mobility (social class and family financial ability) were seen to be related to parent's educational background, and further predicts that types of occupations, with exceptional upsetting consequences on the future of students' education in urban Sokoto state, Nigeria.

Nigerian Journal of Education Foundations(NIJEF), 2019

This paper middles on the weakness and strength of sociological theories in educational research.... more This paper middles on the weakness and strength of sociological theories in educational research. It's on parental and school climate factors on student dropouts in Sokoto Metropolis Nigeria. It cantered on research in sociology of education which relies on theory as a major component of studies. This extracted piece, justify why functionalism, Marxism/conflict and interactionist were not used as the study guide. Variables used were parental and school climate factors on student dropouts and the study find it more convincing to use ecological theory. The theoretical and social associations of the study variables were complexly fixed in the dimensional stages of the features of ecological theory. To this background ecological theory is broader in features and dynamic in suitability to the interrelated features of this study as factors that are strongly associated to student dropouts in schools of Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria. This study finds it appropriate to suggest that research and findings in sociology of education must be associated to one theory or more, else it might be weak or have no theoretical basis for argument and chances for further research improvement.

The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental supp... more The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental support, shortages of educational structures, teaching and learning material/facilities in Sokoto State Nigeria. These educational shortcomings are strongly associated to home/family, all schools related factors, and these are summarised as important factors to the success of students and schools. The nature of school challenges has resulted to students’
dropouts and educational support which can be productive or unproductive is associated to students pre-requisite learning conditions like; teachers’ pedagogies, school general climatic conditions and parental supports. The study
used open ended interview questions to extract information, as pragmatic ways of sourcing for information on how to improve JSS learning conditions and prevent the phenomenon of dropout. This was done with groups of 48
interviewees comprising students, parents, principal and zonal coordinators. A thematic qualitative analysis was used, leading to the formation of themes and later suggestive theoretical positions on how to improve students’ learning
conditions. The suggestions centred on the unlimited possibilities of providing and improving on teaching and learning atmosphere, to strengthen parents and government socioeconomic support to students’ education in Sokoto and
indeed northern Nigeria.
Keywords: Thematic extraction, Learning conditions, Dropouts students, Sokoto state

Abstract The university institution is tasked by society and its ideologies of existence to educa... more Abstract
The university institution is tasked by society and its ideologies of existence to educate, empower and socialize citizens for the required high skills, knowledge and other pre-requisite factors for human development. Therefore, expected contributions of university to the larger society and the local community it is situated was put across. The paper contents integrates expected roles and contributions of an ideal university institution in any part of the world to societies and immediate local community it is situated, this is in related to Nigeria universities and their inherent challenges. Thus, this position was summarily narrowed to Usmanu Danfodiyo University in its success for engaging in community services and networking, which complement its primary functions of teaching and research. It is for the progressive socioeconomic, political, education and research services to communities of Nigeria that the paper sees basic capital funding by government and support from other institutions and private sectors as the tools to sustain university education activities and services to the nation at large.

Key words: University community, community services, Local communities, Sokoto Nigeria

The study seeks to identify the possibilities of home and schools multiples factors as they best ... more The study seeks to identify the possibilities of home and schools multiples factors as they best predict student's dropouts in Sokoto Nigeria. The study was restricted to 30 junior secondary schools and to class two (JSS2) alone using simple random sampling method. The entire participants were categorically two groups (in school students [non-dropouts, 390]) and dropout's students. Each group was has [390x 2 =780, Yes and No, 780] (i.e., dropouts students and their parents), the total population was 1560, they all responded to adapted research instrument. Logistic regression was used to explore the best predicted factors among the study identified multiple variables under home (parents occupation, social economic support, residential location, religious) and school factors(school culture, classroom environment or ecology, school building/structures, school administration).The findings indicated that parents social economic support is the first best predictor on students dropouts from JSS schools, followed by school administration and classroom ecology respectively. Thus, with an increase of parental socioeconomic support, accommodative and productive school administration, which will foster positive classroom interaction and teaching/students connectedness, student's dropout from school can be minimized.

ATBU Journal of Science, Technology and Education, 2015

Journal of Education and Practice, 2014

Research on humanities and social sciences, 2013

The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dro... more The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dropouts students, parents for dropouts and non-dropouts students respectively in schools of Sokoto metropolis. This was inspired by the high rise of students’ dropouts in Sokoto state, Nigeria. Technically, dropouts and non-dropouts teaching and learning issues were associated to challenges of school cultures on students. Survey method was adapted, which used questionnaire for data collected, from a population of 1560, which included 30 junior secondary school students (JSS). A One-way analysis of variance was conducted for the research and the result was significant (sig) at the 0.05 level. Findings of the study suggested that school cultural factors influenced junior secondary school students (JSS) dropouts and non-dropouts in schools based on the four groups perspectives compared in Sokoto metropolis Nigeria. Keywords: School culture, Dropouts, Non-dropouts, Sokoto metropolis, School en...

African International Journal of Education Administration and Policy, 2016

Empowering Individual through Educational Strategies for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria, 2010

Parents Occupation and Students Basics Education Sustainability In Urban Area in Sokoto State Nigeria, 2020

Nigerian Journal of Education Foundations(NIJEF), 2019

The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental supp... more The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental support, shortages of educational structures, teaching and learning material/facilities in Sokoto State Nigeria. These educational shortcomings are strongly associated to home/family, all schools related factors, and these are summarised as important factors to the success of students and schools. The nature of school challenges has resulted to students’
dropouts and educational support which can be productive or unproductive is associated to students pre-requisite learning conditions like; teachers’ pedagogies, school general climatic conditions and parental supports. The study
used open ended interview questions to extract information, as pragmatic ways of sourcing for information on how to improve JSS learning conditions and prevent the phenomenon of dropout. This was done with groups of 48
interviewees comprising students, parents, principal and zonal coordinators. A thematic qualitative analysis was used, leading to the formation of themes and later suggestive theoretical positions on how to improve students’ learning
conditions. The suggestions centred on the unlimited possibilities of providing and improving on teaching and learning atmosphere, to strengthen parents and government socioeconomic support to students’ education in Sokoto and
indeed northern Nigeria.
Keywords: Thematic extraction, Learning conditions, Dropouts students, Sokoto state

Key words: University community, community services, Local communities, Sokoto Nigeria

The study seeks to identify the possibilities of home and schools multiples factors as they best ... more The study seeks to identify the possibilities of home and schools multiples factors as they best predict student's dropouts in Sokoto Nigeria. The study was restricted to 30 junior secondary schools and to class two (JSS2) alone using simple random sampling method. The entire participants were categorically two groups (in school students [non-dropouts, 390]) and dropout's students. Each group was has [390x 2 =780, Yes and No, 780] (i.e., dropouts students and their parents), the total population was 1560, they all responded to adapted research instrument. Logistic regression was used to explore the best predicted factors among the study identified multiple variables under home (parents occupation, social economic support, residential location, religious) and school factors(school culture, classroom environment or ecology, school building/structures, school administration).The findings indicated that parents social economic support is the first best predictor on students dropouts from JSS schools, followed by school administration and classroom ecology respectively. Thus, with an increase of parental socioeconomic support, accommodative and productive school administration, which will foster positive classroom interaction and teaching/students connectedness, student's dropout from school can be minimized.