Teacher, Parent, Student Factors and Job Opportunities As Determinants Of Students’ Choice Of History Of Education In Selected Universities In Nigeria
This paper examined teacher, parent, student factors and job opportunities as determinants of students’ choice of History of Education in selected universities in Nigeria. An expo facto research design was adopted. 108 respondents were sampled from the 3 selected universities from Northern, Western and Earthen Nigerian. A self-designed questionnaire was used to elicit in formation from the sampled respondents and data collected were coded and analyzed in line with the four generated esearch hypotheses using Person Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient. The findings show that teacher, parent, student factors and job opportunities are determinants of students’ choice of History of Education in the Nigerian Universities. At last, recommendation such as the need for National Universities Commission to enforce law for all the universities in Nigeria offering teacher education programme to employ experts in History of Education to teach the course, as this will improve the students’ interest in the course and provide for the experts in the field.
History of Western Education in French-Speaking Africa: The Example of Senegal
Three centuries of French government with a colonial policy of cultural assimilation have earned Senegal a rich yet ambiguous educational system. While contributing to the full development of the country one consequent would restrict separateness of cultural identity for the Senegalese and require adaptation of the French educational system to their specific needs. This paper examines the history of Senegal's integration as a colony with the French educational system and the problems from independence to the present in elaborating a Senegalese education which adapts the French sysrem and promotes Senegal's cultural values and economic development. The limits of such action are the need to preserve the friendly and fruitful relationships with France especially at a time when the whole educational system is in a state of crisis, the need to “Africanize” the system without losing the benefit of international recognition, and the need to educate for development in a context of chronic underdevelopment. This background forms a context for psychological understanding of citizens' current behavior.
Occupational Aspirations of Secondary School Students in Senegal
One of the main concerns of Senegalese secondary school students is the choice and acquisition of a profession.l Investigations on the subject in the past few years have included studies on Chad, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.2 Our purpose here is to delineate the motives for the choices and to examine the students' attitudes towards those who do not attend school. Like most of those mentioned above, this study also considers the variables of sex, age, and father's socio-economic status.