Assessment of Attitude of Parents towards their Girl-Childrens’Education in Bure Woreda,West Gojjam,Ethiopia,2014 G.C.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mekonnen Bazie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mekonnen Yihenew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-19T06:23:11Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:02:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-19T06:23:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:02:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background- Attitudes and preferences regarding female children’s educational attainment areimportant determinants of parents’ childrearing behavior. Parent’s attitudes are mainlyinfluenced by traditional beliefs regarding the ideal roles of women and girls in society.Traditionally, the only roles available to women were those of wives and mothers. Thesetraditional beliefs have been found to foster negative attitudes which limit family and communitysupport for girls’ education. Identification and examination of these attitudes is necessary beforeany decisions can be made on what should and can be done to bring about change. Objective –To assess the attitudes of parents towards girl children’s’ education in Bure woreda,west Gojjam, Ethiopia, 2014 E.C Methods- A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted to assessparent’s attitude towardsgirl child education in Bure woreda, west Gojjam, Ethiopia. A total of 369 samples used for thestudy. The sample selected using simple random sampling and systematic sampling methods.The data was analyzed by correlation and chi square using SPSS version 20 window7. IRB ofAAU was review the protocol to ensure full protection of the rights of study subjects. Informedoral parental consent was obtained from all subjects, and at least one parent was present duringthe data collection. The Study was conducted from November 2013 to June 2014 with the total cost of 22,102.5 ETB. Result - Out of the total 350 respondents, 174(50.3%) were male. The age of the respondents distributionshows that majority {(131 (37.4%)} were in the age grouping of 31-40 years with the mean age 38.75years and standard deviation of 9.315 years. more than three fourth of the participants (76%) had positiveattitude towards girl child education and the remaining 24% had negative attitude. From the totalnumber of girl children (603) whose age was 7-18, 515(85%) girls were attending school,40(7%) dropping school and the remaining 48(8%) didn’t attending school. Conclusion and recommendation- This study reveals that most of the respondents’ perceptiontowards girl-child education was very good with more than half of respondents saying thateducating a girl child is important. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27240 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Attitude, parents, girl-child, education | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Attitude of Parents towards their Girl-Childrens’Education in Bure Woreda,West Gojjam,Ethiopia,2014 G.C. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |