A study of the role of female educational leaders in the promotion of girl child education in the Builsa South District

Abstract

This research was envisioned to study the role of female educational leaders in the promotion of girl-child education in the Builsa South District. The objectives of the study were to find out factors that affect girl’s education in Builsa South District, determine the nature of girl’s education in Builsa South District and to establish roles female educational leaders play to promote girl’s education in the study area. The study used questionnaire and an interview guide to collect data. The population of the study comprised female educational leaders in the Builsa South District. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 30 respondents for the study. It emerged from the study that socio-economic factors such as parental income, parental occupation, level of parents’ education and child labour were factors affecting girl-child education. Further, the study revealed that socio-cultural factors such as early marriage, parental attitudes towards girl-child education, and teenage pregnancy affect girl-child education. Again cost of schooling, irrelevant curricula, and teacher pupil interaction were school-related factors affecting girl-child education. Also the nature of girl-child education was that more boys are in school than girl-child. The roles female education leaders must play to promote girl-child education were the provision of the needed support, psychological support, and moral and spiritual support. Based on the findings it is recommended that Parents and guardian should be educated and be reminded of their primary responsibility in caring for and ensuring that their children especially the girl-child obtain minimum formal education.