Socio-economic Justifications for Renewed Calls for Girl-child Education in South-South Nigeria
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2024-09
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Faculty of Arts & Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
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The study examined the extent social and economic advantages justify the renewed calls for girl-child education in South-South Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study, whose design was descriptive, the populations as the 12 Ministries of Education and Women Affairs in the Zone and the sample as 141 Ministerial Directors, selected using the census and stratified random sampling techniques. The study instrument was the validated researcher’s designed Socio Economic Justifications for Girl-Child Scale, with a reliability index of 0.89. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions and t-test for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 probability level. The results show that social and economic advantages justify the renewed calls for girl-child education to a high extent. It also established significant differences between the responses of the Ministerial Directors on the extent to which socio-economic advantages justify the calls for girl-child education. The study submitted that, renewed calls for girl-child education are results from some identified social and economic advantages. Consequently, the study recommends that, stakeholders should probe to identify more rationalizations to buttress the renewed calls for the education of the female folk in society.
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Social Justification. Economic Justifications, Girl-Child Education, Renewed Calls
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