| dc.description.abstract | Enhancing girl-child participation in secondary education is majorly 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 Migori district, Migori
county, Kenya. 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 Migori 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-economic 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 of 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 provide 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. | en |
