Thematic Approaches to Suggestions on Challenges Facing Junior Secondary Schooling in Sokoto State Nigeria
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The education of public Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) is anchored to challenges of parental support, shortages of educational structures, teaching and learning material/facilities in Sokoto State Nigeria. These educational shortcomings are strongly associated to home/family, all schools related factors, and these are summarised as important factors to the success of students and schools. The nature of school challenges has resulted to students’ dropouts and educational support which can be productive or unproductive is associated to students pre-requisite learning conditions like; teachers’ pedagogies, school general climatic conditions and parental supports. The study used open ended interview questions to extract information, as pragmatic ways of sourcing for information on how to improve JSS learning conditions and prevent the phenomenon of dropout. This was done with groups of 48 interviewees comprising students, parents, principal and zonal coordinators. A thematic qualitative analysis was used, leading to the formation of themes and later suggestive theoretical positions on how to improve students’ learning conditions. The suggestions centred on the unlimited possibilities of providing and improving on teaching and learning atmosphere, to strengthen parents and government socioeconomic support to students’ education in Sokoto and indeed northern Nigeria. Keywords: Thematic extraction, Learning conditions, Dropouts students, Sokoto state
Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2531182747