BROKEN HOMES AND ITS EFFECTS ON STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Broken Home, is a family system that is organized into a single-parent household. The setup usually results from a divorce of separation of parents. Currently, the term is hardly ever used by social scientists due to its implication of a family being dysfunctional.
“Growing up in a broken home does not necessarily mean home does not aids develop an emotional and psychological dysfunctional”
Nigerian environment is associated with unclassified problems entangled with improverism outlook and being devoid of most facilities and infrastructure that could sustain an urban area. This is clearly manifested on the standard of living and the contribution of the people towards national development.
This circumvented problem in the rural areas has adverse effects on the student’s academic performance. It is imperative therefore to exhume the associated rural problem that affects their academic achievement with the prevailing order in the educational arsenal. Most often than not, there has been persistent cry about the state of intellectual attainment in the school system. This cry does not include only student’s performance in the rural area but in the urban as well.
Environment according to oxford Advanced dictionaryis the natural conditions like land, air and water, in which people animals and plants live and also circumstance affecting their life. Environment can be physical or psychological. Physical environment deals withmaterial aspects such as infrastructure, availability of resources facilities. The psychological environment includes the home, school community and significantly other people in our lives such as parents, peers and siblings.
The quality of our name is very significant; some have a history or tradition of formal education and modern influence, while some are not so well equipped. The gadgets, resources and facilities in both type of home will influence the learning processes of children born in these home.
Students have shown that if a child lives in an improver is hed environment for the first four years of life, he is likely to lose as many as, in reading knowledge and skills, general knowledge and skills. ‘’ The environment’’ provides the necessary conditions for both physical and intellectual growth. The African child has often been hand capped by ill-health, lack of motivation, nutritional deficiencies, and unfair criticism. This hampers his intellectual development considering as such treatment invariably result in negative self-concept.
‘’ Home’’ is where the child, the parent or guardians live and from where the child set-out to and fro to school. Home is first enduring environmental factor in promoting readiness for school work in the child. This is because parent or guardians in the home are children first teacher. From the day a child is born and begin to hear, he or she is begins to develop literacy as parent and other caring adults and pre-school teachers speaks, play, sing and read to them. As a child, he moves from infant to toddler and then to preschooler, he learns to be able to read, write and listen and speak.
Early literacy development is a significant part of preparing children to achieve academically. Basic literacy activities that are associated with children’s engagement with texts and success in reading were identified by literacy researcher (Dickinson and Tabors, 2001, Wasik and Band 2001) includes Oral language development, which includes book reading, phoneme awareness activities (acquired through nursery rhymes single poetry and books that contain ward with rhymes), And exposure to alphabet.
The influence of parent especially, mothers on children early literacy acquisition and subsequent school achievement is well documented in numerous studies (Trusty, 1998, Yan and Lin 2002; Godden & Ray 2003), performance including higher academic achievement (Mc Neal ‘1999’, Scribner, Lin 2003); and greater social and emotional development. Parents not only provide good learning experiences and through talking with the child, sharing experiences and teaching but also help to help to organize a child’s learning experiences.
