Abstract:
This study assessed the impact of illegal mining on school attendance and academic
performance of junior high school students in the Atiwa West District of Ghana.
Phenomenological research design was used for this study and research instrument
used was semi-structured interview. Twenty (20) student respondents were selected
for the study. Purposive and snowballing sampling techniques were employed to
select respondents for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the
five junior high schools in the district and the pupil participants were selected using
snowballing technique. Findings of the study has revealed that indeed illegal mining
activities partake, by students do have negative effect on school attendance and
academic performance and it was established that students who come to school
regularly perform tremendously while the absentee students perform poorly. The
study recommended that with the implementation of the New Educational Reform and
Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education, parents must educate their wards on the
importance of education, and parents must be made aware that it is their responsibility
to bear the cost of their children’s need.
Description:
A dissertation in the Department of Educational Foundations,
Faculty of Educational Studies submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Post Graduate Diploma
(Education)
in the University of Education, Winneba
