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INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Home is a place in which children learn to
interpret realities (Wary and Passman, 1996) parents serve as significant
interpreters to children for information about the world and children ability
(Hall, Kelly, Hansen and Vulwein, 1996) home influence is an important force in
preparing students for their role as workers. Young people form their attitude
about work and career as a result of interaction with the home. Home background
provides the basis on which a student’s career planning and decision making
evolves. However, within each home, the level of involvement can very
positively or negatively.
Home background factor found to be associated with
career choice includes parents socio-economic status (SES), their level of
education and biogenetics factor such as physical size, gender, ability and
temperament, Panic and Jepson (1992), in a study on adolescent vocational
development reported that had the most effect on education plans and
occupational aspiration was education. Mortime et al (1992) also reported that
parents with post secondary education tend to pass along its importance in
their children a finding reported by other studies. Montgomery (1992) votes
that students talented in mathematics viewed their career choice as reflective
on the interest that stem from early home influence and educational
opportunities.
De Piddeo (1990) however, points out that the lower
level of parents education can retard adolescents career choice. Being born to
parents with limited education and income reduces the likelihood of going to
college or achieving a professionally and occupational goals and essentially
predetermined the child’s likely career choice. Home income is another aspect
of home background that influences the career choice of a student. Mortimer et
al (1992) one reason for this may be that home with limited economic resources
may tend to direct children first the older children in the home giving less
hope and encouragement to the younger children in the home. It is therefore
understandable that the self efficacy of students with respect to career
opportunities is linked to the economic support they can expect from their
parents. Another home background factor found to be associated with career
choice include the parents spiritual/health parents who love Jesus and want the
best for their children will urge their children to pursue a career that will
bring them joy in the future. Thus proverbs 22:6 admonished parents to pay
attention to their children while the children in turn should prove themselves
obedient (Ephesians 6:13).
STATEMENT
OF PROBLEM
The standard of education in
Nigeria today is gradually falling thus leading to lots of arrangements amongst
scholars civil servants, educational planners etc as to what is the immediate
and remote causes of the failure and the factors hindering high standard of
education, while we may blame governments, teachers, and children, the home
which students comes from leave much to be desired. It is important to note
that we cannot exonerate the home that a child came from when talking about the
students choice of career in secondary school. Home background factors found to
have influence the students choice of career is based on parents socio-economic
status, parents educational level, parents love for Jesus and family size and
parents temperament.
RESEARCH
QUESTION
In order to deal with the
influence of home background on the career choice of secondary school students
the following questions were asked:
1.
To what
degree does the socio-economic status of parents influence the career choice of
students in secondary school?
2.
Is there
any relationship between the level of education of parents and the career
choice of students in secondary schools?
3.
Does the
size of a home have any influence on the choice of career of secondary school
students?
4.
Is there
any relationship between living condition at home and choice of career of
students?
5.
To what
extend does the ability and temperament of parents affect the choice of career
of students?
Home is the bedrock of the child’s socialization
processes. A child starts to learn even right from its mother womb and as such as
it is born to this world (2 Timothy 2:15) as Gods creature, made in God’s
image, the child does not learn in vacuum but rather is active by learning, in
a society of humans who influence his guess such society embodies the home
which the family belongs to and school source of western education. It is
observed that the choice of career of students in secondary school can be
denied by their parent’s socio-economic status, level of educational, family
size of the parent ability. It is
therefore the purpose of this study to investigate the impact of home
background on the choice of career of students in secondary schools.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
Students succeed in school
when certain factors are put in place or put under control, some of these includes
ensuring that the child feeds well at home, get enough rest, does his home work
has his work checked by both his teachers and parents, has his school
materials, gets adequate encouragement from their parents, useful information
should be given the child to guide futures generation of choice of career. In
the light of the above, the students will assist parents to have insight into
the behavior and needs of their children. The study intends to reveal the
factors that impedes or enhance the choice of students in secondary schools.
SCOPE OF
THE STUDY
This study is restricted to
secondary schools in Esan Central local government area of Edo State. In the
realization of similar condition facing most students in other secondary
schools in Edo State the survey shall focus on students in their first year and
final year of studies.
SCHOOLS
SELECTED
Usi-Mart Academy, Iki
Opoji Grammar School Eguare
Opoji Commercial Secondary School, Oki
DEFINITION
OF TERMS
1.
Involvement:
Willingness to show consideration and gentleness and also contribute to a
child’s choice of career.
2.
Temperament:
The parent’s nature shown in the way they react to their children choice of
career.
3.
Potluck:
A meal to which each quest brings food.
4.
Missionary:
Something sent to foreign land to teach people the goodness of Gods kingdom
5.
Exonerate:
We cannot say that the home is not responsible in a students choice of career.
6.
Impede:
Factors that delay or stop students in secondary school from choosing a career.
7.
Biogenetic:
The genes of the parents such as height, size, etc.
8.
Admonish:
The bible advice and urge parents seriously to pay attention to their children.
9.
Detest:
To dislike or hate something.
Socialization: The process of
being socialized in been open to the world.
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Friday 25 October 2013
THE INFLUENCE OF HOME BACKGROUND ON THE CAREER CHOICE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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