EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF FEMALE TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IJUMU L.G.A OF KOGI STATE
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is the best legacy a country, society or parent can give to its citizenry or child. It is a process through which individual acquires skills, competencies, and attitude. It is the right of every child to be educated, be it traditional or western. Thus, education is been regarded as a culture to man, people and the nation of the world at large. This explains why man has to educate himself and his offspring in the society. Odia and Omofonmwan (2007), asserted that, the standard of education in Nigeria has become a thing of great concern to the nation for decades now. They further observed that, decline in the standard, deterioration of facilities, mass promotion syndrome, teachers truancy and the like before any other thing else, are the sets of thoughts that come to mind when the issue of Nigeria educational system is raised.
The problem of poverty in Africa has over the years engaged the attention of the international community, governmental and non-governmental Agencies, including Nigerians Scholars. Poverty is one of the factors militating against man from carrying out his educational activities perfectly (Aluko, 2003). Because of the various perception and complexities of the term poverty, a universally agreed definition cannot be arrived at. But then, poverty according to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (2003) is a way of life characterized by low Calorie intake, inaccessibility of adequate health facilities, low quality education system, low life expectancy, unemployment and under-employment. Lero and Symes (2004) considered poverty as major anti-risk factors relating the concept poverty to Nigeria, it will therefore be considered in broader way which implies that it has been viewed in various perspectives, which include ones national state and home background. At the national level, a nation can be considered poor, when her economic standard is very low and this automatically makes the nation underdeveloped. The economy of a country that does not reach certain stage of development in terms of infrastructure and other development indices. As regards poverty in the family level, we are referring to the home background. Even before the indigenous education or western type of education, the home has always been the agency through which man learns various aspect of life to enable him live a meaningful life in his environment (Aluko, 2003).
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