THE INFLUENCE OF CHILD LABOUR ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS IN SELECTED PRIMARY SCHOOLS
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Abstract
This research was carry out to investigate the influence of child labour on the academic achievement of the pupil in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The subjects of the study were one hundred and ten. Also, the research design used in this study was survey design. The instrument used in collecting the data was structured questionnaire with four point like format while data was coded into frequency count and analysed with the use of simple percentages. The result indicates that child labour is not a way of training children to be responsible adult or culture rather it was an intentional welfare of the child. Furthermore, the major causes of child labour is poverty which has link with other causes such as broken home, early marriage, wards and natural disasters and so on. Moreover, the major influences of child labour on the academic achievement involved were lower intellectual and academic development, truancy, dropout and so on. Besides programmes such as Universal Basic Education (UBE), poverty alleviation, enactment and implementation of laws concerning children’s right, etc can help to eradicate or reduce child labour to the bearest minimum. Based on these findings recommendations were made.
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