Why community participation in schooling is struggling in Nigeria: a view from the ground
NIGERIA has more out-of-school children than any other country in the world. Around 10.5 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are not in school. MÁIRÉAD DUNNE, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Sussex SARA HUMPHREYS, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sussex A key government strategy to get more children into school, and improve school quality, is to increase parental and community participation. Parental and community involvement in various aspects of schooling – ensuring that children go to school, contributing cash or labour to construct classrooms, and participating in school management –- is part of a more…