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Title:Perceptions of Unequal Access to Primary and Secondary Education: Findings from Nigeria
Authors:Sunal, Cynthia SzymanskiISNI
Sunal, Dennis W.
Rufai, Ruqayyatu
Inuwa, Ahmed
Haas, Mary E.
Year:2003
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:46
Issue:1
Period:April
Pages:93-116
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:educational policy
primary education
secondary education
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1514982
Abstract:Eighty Nigerian parents and forty teachers were interviewed with the purpose of understanding how ordinary citizens view the unequal participation in education in Nigeria. The findings are organized by the nine interview topics, viz. interviewees' personal and family data; physical conditions in the schools; quality of teaching; incorporation of indigenous culture into the curriculum; educational costs; effects of schooling; families keeping children out of school; groups whose members could have their access to schooling reduced; and future trends. Several areas of concern were identified in relation to participation in schooling such as its financial cost to families; the perceived limited value of education in adulthood; and the low quality of instruction. The interviewees acknowledged the continuing unequal participation of some groups and gave some reasons for their exclusion, though they did not seek to justify it. Specific policy suggestions are made for increasing participation in schooling by all children and for improving the quality of schooling. App., bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited]
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