IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IJSSMR )

E-ISSN 2545-5303
P-ISSN 2695-2203
VOL. 2 NO. 2 2016

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Economic Recession, Hawking and Students Dropout of School in the Five Eastern States of Nigeria

Lekwa Eke Ada & Anyaogu, Boniface E

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Abstract

This study was carried out against the observed increasing number of students who drop out of school with the objectives of investigating the dropout rate and the extent economic recession is responsible for students’ dropping out of school and going hawking in the five Eastern States of Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A random sample of 250 teachers (148 public and 102 private) drawn from private and public schools and a 7-item structured questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.79 as well as data on school enrollment change between 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 academic years were used for data collection. Data collected were analysed using mean and t-test conducted at 0.05 probability level. Findings were that economic recession negatively affects school enrollment and has pulled many students out of school and pushed them into the streets to hawk. The educational implications of these are increasing number of illiterates and criminals in the society and general backwardness in the future educational development of these states. It was recommended among other things that government should make educational policies that will have broad financial sponsorship scope to avoid the negative influences of economic recession affecting the formal school system.

keywords:

economic recession, hawking, school dropout and recession-occasioned hawking.

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