HAWKING, MAIDSHIP, APPRENTICESHIP AND GIRL-CHILD ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, ILORIN-WEST LGA, KWARA STATE
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2018-09-12
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Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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Failure of the government in its obligations to provide free or subsidized education to its citizenry has further played the economically disadvantaged parents to engage their girl children in street hawking, house maidship and apprenticeship so as to cushion the effects of financial difficulty threating their lives without minding the consequence of their action on their children. This study aimed at examining the resultant effects of street hawking, house maidship, apprenticeship on female student academic performance in senior secondary school in Ilorin west local government area of kwara state. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select three hundred (300) female students from ten (10) secondary schools in the local government area. The instrument administered to collect data and information are profoma and questionnaire, using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistic to test the three hypotheses generated in the study. The outcome of the study revealed that street hawking, maidship, apprenticeship had significant relationship on academic performance of girl child in secondary schools. Based on the findings, it is recommended that government should make education free for all and sundry and provide free textbooks, stationary, uniform and free meals that will enable children of the less privileged attend schools without complaint.
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Hawking, Maidship, Apprenticeship, Academic Performance, Girl Child.