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International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review Vol. 1(2), pp. 29–37, October, 2013 ISSN: 2360-7866 DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2013.006
Full Length Research Paper Students’ perspective on female dropouts in Nigeria
*1Ahmad Kainuwa and Najeemah Binti Mohammad Yusuf
*1School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia. E-mail: ahmadkainuwa@yahoo.com
School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia. E-mail: najineen@usm.my
Accepted 23 September, 2013
Education of the female children has become a
universal issue for African nations hence the need for striving to
achieve a balance between the enrollment and retention rates of
their male counterparts. Although there are many reasons for female
children dropping out of school as given in various studies on the
subject, this paper tries to explore the reasons from the students’
perspective. The goal of the paper was to find out why a significant
percentage of female students drop out of the Nigerian school system
every year. The findings in this paper are drawn from a research
study on female students’ dropouts in Nigeria based on the data
collected from junior secondary schools of Shinkafi local government
Zamfara state. The major reasons behind drop outs were mentioned in
the findings of the paper with some little explanations on each
reason. In the course of discussion, the paper reviews literature on
how socio-economic status, cultural traditions and practice and
religious belief from the students’ perspectives affects the
education of female children; in addition, studies and researches
from the previous works of scholars relating to the students’
perspectives on female students’ dropout were also analyzed and
discussed throughout the paper. The study has discovered that
enrolment rate of female students is still very low and still
remains worrisome, where by dropouts’ rate is very high. This is
further worsened by traditional system and belief pattern of gender
disparity, and high incidence of early marriage of very young girls
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