Assessing Girl Child Education and Parental Consciousness and Involvement in the Ashaiman Municipality

Authors

  • Priscilla Adomako Gyasi  School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China PR
  • Yinghua Chen  School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China PR
  • Ekua Baiden Amissah  School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China PR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET1207562

Keywords:

Ashaiman Municipality, dropout, education stakeholders, girl child education, household heads, intervention measure

Abstract

The 1992 Constitution of Ghana guarantees Free and Compulsory Basic Education to every child of school going age irrespective of gender, religion, ethnicity or geographical location however, this is far from reality as some children in Ghana lack education especially the girl child. Hence the objective of the study is to assess parental consciousness and involvement in the education of their girl child in Ashaiman Municipality and identify intervention measures specifically to improve girl education in the area. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative research methods where interviews and questionnaires were used for data collection as well as utilizing the multistage sampling and purposive (focus group discussion) sampling methods for the selection of the respondents. The analysis of the data was done using Descriptive statistics and the Thematic Analysis (qualitative) using Microsoft Excel. According to the study, poverty, lack of awareness, negative behaviours of household heads toward female education among others correspond to the increased girl dropout in the community. Intervention measures such as awareness creation, provision of financial resources and adequate teaching and learning materials, eliminating retrogressive cultural practices, among others have been proposed.

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Priscilla Adomako Gyasi, Yinghua Chen, Ekua Baiden Amissah "Assessing Girl Child Education and Parental Consciousness and Involvement in the Ashaiman Municipality" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp.333-360, September-October-2020. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET1207562