The Challenges of Girl Child Education in Sokoto State, Nigeria and Its Implications for National Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
M. J. Haruna ◽  
A. Nafisa
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Girl Child Education

scholarly journals Education and the achievement of national development through girl child empowerment in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Peter Ogbaji Onah ◽  
Martha Edu Akanimoh ◽  
Linda Esse Ndome
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
National Development ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Educational Efficiency ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Objective Reasoning ◽  
Skills Learning ◽  
Girl Child Education

Education plays a very pertinent role in promoting development, as it is concerned with imparting knowledge, skills, attitudes, belief systems and values. This paper focuses on the utilization of the girl child education as an effective tool to foster national development. It conceptualized education, girl child education, empowerment and National Development. The theory of functionalism was adopted to offer credence to the paper. This paper vividly explicates how various negative attitudes and negligence towards the girl child education in African continent in general and Nigeria to be specific has exacerbated poverty, illiteracy and untold hardship on the citizenry. It further unraveled the strategies for using girl child education as an instrument for national development thereby eradicating poverty in Nigeria. Based on the issues raised in the paper, as education remains a formidable weapon of socio- economic development of any nation, the paper recommends the need for change in the Nigerian policy towards education, especially the girl child education by improving public budget in education, improve education for self-reliance, to enhance educational efficiency by improving on skills learning via entrepreneurship education and building of critical and objective reasoning, and girl child empowerment.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES OF GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION IN A PERIOD OF RECESSIVE ECONOMY IN NIGERIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Maimuna Rabo Umar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Girl Child Education

Education has been identified as a developmental tool of which no nation could develop without. Sustainable development could only be achieved with the contributions of both sexes, as women play a significant role in the development of any society. The paper traces the geneses of girl child education in an economic recession, so also the relevance of girl child education in economic development such as manpower, skills capacity development. The challenges facing girl child education which include illiteracy, extreme poverty and socio-cultural factors. The paper suggested, among others, that government should not only make girl child education free but also compulsory at all levels to prevent drop out as a result of lack of funding.

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