The socIo -economic factors affecting girl child education: case study of jinja Municipality, Jinja District
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2017-12
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Kampala International University, College/School of Education
Abstract
Enhancing girl-child participation in secondary education is rna~orly based on socio-economic,
socio-cultural, parents level of education and distance from school factors. The study purposed to
establish the extent to which the factors affect girl-child participation in secondary education in
Jinja district, Jinja Municipality, Uganda. Four research questions were formulated to guide the
study. Literature reviewed was discussed in the light of the variables affecting girl-child
participation in secondary education. The study reviewed literature based on four objectives;
effect of socio-economic, socio-cultural, parents level of education as well as distance from
school factors on girls participation in secondary school education. The study was anchored on
the Needs Hierarchy Theory developed by Abraham Maslow an American psychologists
(Maslow, 1954).
The study used descriptive survey. The target population of the study was the principals of 33
public secondary schools in Jinja district,66 class teachers and 66 head girls and deputy head-
girls. The census sampling was used to get 33 principals and 66 head girls and deputy head girls
but systematic random selection was used to get the 66 class teachers two from every school.
The response rate of the respondents was 100 percent. The study used questionnaires for data
collection collected data were analyzed using computer.
The findings from the study showed that socio-econornic factors affect participation of girl child
in secondary education. This resulted to lack of school uniform, lack of school fees. lack of
teaching learning materials, high rate of drop—out and lack of personal effects for those with poor
socio-economic background. The socio-cultural factors result to early marriages, male preference
in family, community initiation into adulthood, negative attitudes of girls in education, cultural
practices and feeling of being adults which do affect participation ot girl child in secondary
education. Parents’ level of education as a factor affects girl child participation in secondary
education because it can promote or lower their participation in education. Educated parents do
support their girls in their educational requirements. They also become roll models to their
daughters’ participation in education they most understand what their daughters want and they
do pro~’ide them with unlike the uneducated parents. Distance from school as a factor has effect
on girl, child participation in education. The wider the distance the more insecure the girls are in
their participation in secondary education. Distance from school, makes the girl child to become
fatigued due to long walking. This also result to early pregnancies as the girls meet a lot of
challenges on their way to school when they walk to and fro as in case of day scholars or when
they are sent home as in cases of boarders. The researcher suggests the need to carry out the
study to determine other factors affecting girl child participation in secondary education. The
researcher also suggests similar studies to be carried out in other districts. in private girls and
mixed secondary schools and in public primary schools in the district.
Description
A research project submitted to the faculty of education in partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of degree in education studies of Kampala International University
Keywords
socIo -economic factors, Girl child education, Jinja Municipality