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Direct Research Journal of Education and Vocational Studies, 2022
This study aimed to determine how stakeholders influenced the dropout rates of female students in Uganda's Nsinze Sub-County, Namutumba District schools. The sample consisted of 278 individuals, representing 442 individuals, including principals, teachers, parents, and students. In this instance, a cross-sectional research technique was employed to formulate and collect answers to the study's research questions. To enable triangulation of results, the study employed a hybrid approach consisting of both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. For each objective, a descriptive method incorporating the use of mean scores to guide analysis was employed. The findings on the role of parents as stakeholders on girl-child school dropout found that parents did not feed their children a nutritious diet, which negatively impacted their ability to concentrate. In addition, parents rarely attend school meetings and thereby lose out on important classroom viewpoints. Finally, many parents failed to provide school materials for their children. In conclusion, teachers do not perform their duties flawlessly in the classroom and school environment in order to reduce the rate of girl-child dropouts. Similarly, parents have abandoned their fundamental obligations of caring for their children in order to assure their enrollment in and completion of school. This is exacerbated by the automatic promotion policy, which has disturbed the old educational system in which neither parents nor teachers have significant responsibility for children. According to the recommendations, teachers should devise mechanisms and create an enabling environment for girls to enroll and remain in school until they complete the primary cycle. This includes avoiding discrimination and establishing a relationship with parents and administrators to collaborate on gender-sensitive issues. It is also suggested that, when politicians are unavailable, the government should strive to involve parents in community-based programmes.
2021
Zambia's Education system keeps recording high dropout rates among adolescent girls in secondary school due to unintended pregnancy. Teenage pregnancies reported among girls in grades 1-12 at both primary and secondary level from the years of 2010 to 2017, show that, at primary level they have been a total of 100,664 pregnancy cases recorded and a total of 20,771 pregnancy cases at secondary school level. The implications of these high dropout rates among girls are low female participation and representation in governance, parochial citizens, lack of employment and poverty among others. This study therefore aimed at finding out how engaged various stakeholders were in teaching contraceptive knowledge and usage of contraceptives in school adolescent girls as a mitigation strategy to pregnancy and dropout. This study was located in the social constructivism paradigm in which a qualitative approach was used and the case study design was employed. A total sample size of 30 participants in which a sampling technique of: Typical Purposeful sampling was used on all the participants. Data was analyzed thematically. The findings seem to suggest that there was acceptability and civic engagement in teaching contraceptive knowledge by teachers and NGOs because they believed it would give the girls better education outcomes and reduced dropout rates. Parents were still resistance to usage of contraceptive because they thought it would lead to moral decay and promiscuity. The study among others recommends that society start opening up in talking about finding lasting solutions to the current problem of adolescent pregnancy in secondary schools in Zambia, by breaking cultural misconceptions.
Thesis of Dropouts FINALIZED FIRST FINALLY IN MARCH
There is a severe problem for the students in the Gambool Secondary Schools in Garowe that is abundant dropping out. Whereas there are many likely causes of school drop-out, evidence available seem to indicate that key factors for this phenomenon seem to be early marriages, migrations, and economic factors. Really, these issues directly affect the other students who like to continue their learning. According to educational management information system (EMIS) 29% of the students in the academic year of 2011-2012 left their studying while 31% of the learners in the academic year of 2012-20113 dropped out from the school (EMIS of MoE, Puntland). This problem did not only impact on the students but also affected their parents, the community and whole the state negatively. Really, the parents discouraged this huge number of their children who left their learning, because the parents are the biggest tangible school fund sources in Somalia. However the contribution of these factors is not exactly known and hence a need for this study to find out the extent to which these factors are responsible for the drop out problem in Gambool secondary school in Garowe District. If the problem is studied through very active investigation, its solution will be obtained and it shall be solved successfully.
Secondary School Students’ Dropouts and Crime Escalation in Vihiga County, Kenya
European Journal of Education Studies, 2020
Crime escalation in Africa has been associated with politics. Statistics reveal that to some extent, secondary school dropouts are a trigger to crime in Kenya. The period between 2009 and 2012 had seen the number of children aged between 15 years to 19 years in conflict with the law steadily rise in Vihiga County, Kenya. It was against that background that the current study sought to examine the relationship between secondary school dropouts and crime escalation in Vihiga County, Kenya. The objective was to discuss the criminal activities by secondary school dropouts in Vihiga County, Kenya. The Study was anchored on a conceptual framework of Labeling Theory and Conflict Theory. The target population was 5,760 whose respondents were 112 Principals, 5 District Probation Officers, 5,568 students who had dropped from school, 64 Chiefs, 1 County Commander, 5 Officers Commanding Police Divisions and 5 Divisional Criminal Investigating Officers. The sample size was 1,738. In-depth intervi...
International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2020
The 1992 Constitution of Ghana guarantees Free and Compulsory Basic Education to every child of school going age irrespective of gender, religion, ethnicity or geographical location however, this is far from reality as some children in Ghana lack education especially the girl child. Hence the objective of the study is to assess parental consciousness and involvement in the education of their girl child in Ashaiman Municipality and identify intervention measures specifically to improve girl education in the area. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative research methods where interviews and questionnaires were used for data collection as well as utilizing the multistage sampling and purposive (focus group discussion) sampling methods for the selection of the respondents. The analysis of the data was done using Descriptive statistics and the Thematic Analysis (qualitative) using Microsoft Excel. According to the study, poverty, lack of awareness, negative behaviours of household heads toward female education among others correspond to the increased girl dropout in the community. Intervention measures such as awareness creation, provision of financial resources and adequate teaching and learning materials, eliminating retrogressive cultural practices, among others have been proposed.
causes of school dropout in kenya
The role of education in socializing the individual to fit in the society cannot be gainsaid. This is because education empowers people to improve their well being and participation in nation building. But recent research has shown that the spate of school drop-out among primary school pupils is worrying. This is happening in Kenya despite the inception of Free Primary Education programme in 2003. Practically pupils' drop out poses a serious threat to gains in education despite the Government's emphasis on Education for All by the year 2015. In Nandi North District, the problem is more pronounced among the primary pupils. The study therefore was conceived as a result of the increased pupil dropout rate in public primary schools causing wastage and affecting curriculum implementation. The study sought to establish the causes of drop out among pupils and strategies that institutions of learning can adopt to address this problem. The study adopted descriptive survey design. It targeted 6322 standard eight pupils, 2569 class teachers and 286 head teachers. Out of this target population, a sample size of 1970 standard eight pupils, 769 class teachers and 86 head teachers was selected. Data were collected using class teachers' and pupils' questionnaires and head teachers' interview guide to gather information on the causes of school dropout. Data were analyzed by use of descriptive statistics and the findings presented in form of figures and tables. The study findings indicated that teenage pregnancy, chronic repetition, family size, lack of motivation for schooling, parental negligence, influence from peers, lack of trained teacher counsellors and early marriages were the main causes of school dropout. It further pointed out that the factors leading to the dropout of girls are different from those for boys. The study therefore recommends that the government and other stakeholders should address the issue of school dropout rate and come up with measures to curb it to avoid wastage of school curriculum resources and facilities and above all, wastage of them would be future leaders full of discovery knowledge for this current era of information and technology. In addition, the government should strengthen policies on the expenditure of the FPE set aside to benefit all children for quality education.
IJMRAP, 2022
This study aimed to identify the perceptions of the teachers and parents on factors that cause learners at risk of dropping out of school. The review of the literature relates, synthesizes, and identifies relevant studies. The literature review is as follows. The literature review begins with the Constructivist Theory of Perception by Richard Gregory (1970). The idea is taken from the past potential intelligence of information chosen and applied to new situations. At the same time, active processing of kinetic data can be used to solve current perceptual problems. (Demuth, 2013). According to Christiansen (2019), constructive perception is a perception theory in which the one who sees uses sensory information and other references to build a mindful understanding of the object. Compared to this top-down view, there is the bottom-up approach of direct experience. Then, it is supported by the Developmental Theory of Jeremy D. Finn (1989), which adopts a developmental perspective on dropout. Jeremy D. Finn is a public education specialist who studies K to 12 fundamental education key issues using numerical methodological approaches. He examines the impact of class size on education, educational success, completion rates, and future jobs. Finn was a primary researcher in the most critical study involving class size yet conducted in Education in the United States. The groundbreaking long-term survey of 12,000 pupils began in 1985 and is still ongoing. Researchers are attempting to determine whether there is a link between class size and other life variables like job and fatality rates.
A study on government initiatives for continuing education of school dropouts
isara solutions, 2020
Education is the basic requirement for human development. With education, employment opportunities are broadened and income levels are increased. The development of an individual and the progress of a nation depend on education. The present article tried to understand the differentials and factors associated with school dropouts in India. Based on the data from Government School dropouts in India, it was found that only 75 percent of the children in the age group 6 to 16 years were attending school. It was observed that the dropout was high among the children belonging to Muslim, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe families. Parental characteristics also play a significant role in determining school education. The dropouts among the children belonging to illiterate parents were four times higher than that of the literate parents. It was also observed that if parents were not working, the possibility of dropout among their children was relatively high. The study suggests that unless and until there is considerable improvement in the economic status of households and change in the social attitudes of parents, achieving the goal of universalisation of school education will remain a major challenge for India. Keeping in view, the increasing importance of education in India, this study is an attempt to understand the nature of student strength and school dropouts. Results are derived by using statistical techniques such as bar diagrams, linear trend analysis, t-test and analysis of variance. The results reveal that female student strength is comparatively high in the government Schools from 2011-12 to 16-17 and male strength in private schools and later during 2017-18, this scenario has changed and also observed the significant difference in the school dropouts year wise.
Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive relationship of peer group influence, teacher-student interaction and indiscipline to students' dropout tendency in evening continuing education programmes. The context of this study is the southern senatorial district of Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted a predictive correlational research design, and the sample comprised 554 students randomly selected from 11 centres in the district. This represents 20% of the total population of students. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire titled: "Social Indicators and Dropout Tendency Scale" (SIDTS). The researchers collected the data that were analysed using Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple linear regression analyses at the .05 level of significance. The results revealed that peer group influence, teacher-student interaction and level of indiscipline collectively and individually predicted dropout tendency among students in...