Perceptions of University Students of the Challenges Faced by Children Whose Fathers are Unable to Participate in Their Early Education: A Quantitative Evaluation
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Perceptions of University Students of the Challenges
Faced by Children Whose Fathers are Unable to
Participate in Their Early Education: A Quantitative
Evaluation - Author(s)
- Okeke Charity, Ugwuanyi Christian, Okeke Chinedu See all items with this value
- Date
- 2021 See all items with this value
- Description
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Introduction: Despite empirical evidence on the positive correlation of parents’ involvement and early education of children, research shows that there is a lack of parental involvement in South Africa.
Objective: This study sought the perceptions of university students on the challenges faced by children whose fathers are unable to participate in their early education.
Method: A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study with a sample of 300 university students in Eastern Cape-based University. A 16-item questionnaire titled “Challenges Faced by Children Questionnaire” was used for data collection. An internal consistency reliability index of the items of the instrument is 0.86. Data collected were analysed using mean and analysis of variance.
Results: The findings of the study revealed that the challenges faced by children whose fathers are uninvolved in their early education include poor intellectual, behavioural and social development among others.
Conclusion: South African children whose fathers do not participate in their early education face a lot of difficulties which hinder that their educational development - Publisher
- International Journal of Current Research and Review See all items with this value
- Keywords
- Children, Early childcare, Education, Participation, Perception, University students See all items with this value
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 17
- pages
- 37-43
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- Journal Articles
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