THE PERCEPTION OF THE INFLUENCE OF CHILD HAWKING ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
ABSTRACT
The study was designed to investigate the causes and influence of street hawking and dropout on child of school age. The research instrument consists of a sample questionnaire. The sample used of 100 respondents selected from secondary school in Abeokuta South random sampling. In the data analysis, the following was discovered. The interest of the children is another factor. Parental level of financial well being is another important factor that influences the child street hawking business. Through these findings, hawking influences dropout, delinquency, under achievement and poor health. Based on the above findings, it was recommended that, parents should be regularly educated on the usefulness of education through mass media. Secondary schools should be made compulsory in Nigeria. children should be made to recognize the importance of education in their early age. School should pay more attention to parents/teachers meeting.
1.0 Background to the Study
Nigeria as a developing country needs people who are required for the political social and economic development of the country. This is necessary because Nigeria no longer need money bag citizens, rather she needs men and women and enough money for the people’s comfort. In order to achieve this, school or formal education for all in Nigeria is mandatory and necessary. It is not important that all Nigeria citizens in Benin city in particular get full formal education and not partial education which leads to school dropout and human wastage or attrition going by the National Policy on Education which recognizes that greater achievement are get and most explanted through formal education is essential to Nigerians and so have made primary education in government schools free for its citizens. Looking at the economic problems in Nigeria today many familiar most especially those in the low socio-economic classes engaged their children and weeds in various activities such as hawking.
Hawking according to the oxford advanced learner dictionary, 6th edition, means moving to sell things by going from place to place asking people to buy them. However, Olalere (2007) identified two main types of hawkers which are; the hawkers that carry their goods in wheels and the side walk hawkers who sit with their wares besides the road. According to Olalere, the capital outlay for types to trade is determined by nature of goods traded in the hawker build cart to suit his or her purpose. The hawker also employs different media of advertising their wares like; buy your sweet orange, the hawker may also decided to short the goods of their names in the manner peculiar and appealing to people.
