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Influence Of Parental Involvement On The Promotion Of Family Life Education
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It seems that if parents were not
educationally oriented, their interest towards the education of their
children might be negatively affected. Adaba (2001) noted that parents
do not encourage the education of their female children because of
erroneous belief that investing money on the education of female
children may end up to be waste when they get married because they lose
family’s name and the husband’s family would reap the fr uits of their
labour. Adaba also said that some parents were unable to pay school fees
and provide necessary materials needed by their wards and that this
contribute to children’s under-achievement in schools. Alonge (2003)
opined that some parents are harsh and wicked to their children if they
do not perform well or fail their examinations.
In another
development, if children do not have a stable family life and have bad
school experiences, they may end up as school drop-outs.
The true
influence of children’s background on achievement can be estimated
better if one takes into account those family characteristics- parental
values and press for the child to achieve and the child’s own efforts
and perceived efficacy-that appear to operate independently of
convectional aspects of class (for the few countries in which these
factors have been studied) and better indicators of the material and
social aspects of class.
The national desire that Nigeria should be a
free, just and democratic society, a land full of opportunities for all
its citizens able to generate a great and dynamic economy and growing
into a united and self reliant nation, is an important pointer to the
role education has to play in the polity. To achieve these goals,
education in Nigeria is an instrument per excellence for effective
national development, Federal Ministry of Education (2004). With
changes in the society, every child desires to become a millionaire
within a day. It now seems to be difficult for majority of the children
to really concentrate on their studies in this country. Good community
Committee (1995) observed that the seed of academic under-achievement
among children have been imbibed from childhood. Many children fail to
find self respect or self-discipline and capacity to cope with problems
This
background emphasizes the need to bring into focus the present study
which sought to explain parental involvement, successes and challenges
in the promotion of family life education.
1.2 Statement of the problem
Meaningful
family involvement is a powerful predictor of high student achievement.
Students attain more educational success when families work together to
motivate, socialize, and educate students. Students whose families are
involved in their education typically receive higher grades and test
scores, complete more homework, have better attendance, and exhibit more
positive attitudes and behaviors than children whose parents do not
show care nor concern about their education and these lead to poor
academic performance of such students. When parents do not motivate,
socialize and educate their students their academic performance tends to
be negatively affected. Research has provided ample evidence that
parental involvement affects achievement in core subjects such as
reading, mathematics and science, and the behaviour of students, their
school attendance and their attitude and adjustment to school. According
to Jerry Trusty (in Henderson and Mapp, 2002), student perception of
their parents’ involvement and expectations are also highly effective
and influential in their education. Moreover, students who feel their
parents’ support for their education and have good communicationare more
likely to continue their studies past high school. When parents show
little or no concern about their children education, the students
withdraw from school, perform poorly academically and may play truancy
in attendance to school. The family size has a great role to play on the
overall development and promotion of family life education and academic
performance of the child in particular. The size of a family has a
significant effect on interrelationship among its members but must be
considered as only one part of a larger picture. The large number of
children can have negative effects on promotion of family life
education. A small family group enables a greater degree of democratic
participation by all the children, something not possible in larger
families. The small family rests upon the ideas of planning,
individualisation, democratic co-operation, social isolation and
intensive pressures.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the Influence of Parental Involvement on the Promotion of Family Life Education in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. The purpose of this research was to determine the level of family success in the promotion of the family life education and to assess the challenges affecting the family life education Five questions and hypotheses were stated for the study, the study employed a descriptive survey research design. An instrument titled: Influence of Paren ... Continue reading---
