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THE INFLUENCE OF HOME BACKGROUND ON CAREER

CHOICE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OVIA

NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE

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ABSTRACT

This research was carried out to look into the influence of home

background on the career choice of secondary school students

in Ovia north east local government area of Edo state.

I am attempting to deal with the influence of home background

on the career choice of secondary school students in Ovia north

east local government area of Edo state. Different questions

were asked.

The study was carried out mainly with the use of questionnaire.

A good number of literature were reviewed, the data collected

were analyzed and interpreted. It was observed that the home

that the student comes from has some influence on his choice

of career. This influence was seen to be either positive or

negative.

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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Home is a place in which children learn to interpret

realities (Wary and Passman, 1999) parents serve as significant

interpreters to children for information about the world and

children ability (Hall, Kelly, Hanson and Vulwein, 1996). Home

influence is an important force preparing students for their role

as workers; young people form their altitude about work and

career as a result of interaction with the home. Home

background provides the basis on which a student career

planning and decision making involves, however with each

home, the level of involvement can very positively or

negatively.

Home background factors found to be associated with

career choice include, parents socio-economic status (SES),

their level of education and biogenetics factor such as physical

size, gender, ability and temperament reported that the most

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effect on education plans and occupational aspiration was

education.

De Piddeo (1990) however, points out that the lower level

of parent’s education can retard adolescent’s 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

home and encouragement of the younger children in the home.

It is therefore understandable that the self-efficiency of

students with respect to career opportunity 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

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Jesus and want the best for their children to pursue a career

that will bring them joy in the future this 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 PROBLEMS

The standard of education in Nigeria today is gradually

falling this 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, why we may blame

government, teachers and children, the home which students

come from leaved much more to be desired. It is important to

note that we cannot exonerate the home that a child cares from

when talking about the student’s choice of career in secondary

school. Home background factors found to have influence the

student’s choice of career is based on parent’s socio-economic

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status, parent’s educational level, parents love for Jesus and

family size and parent’s temperament.

OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

The objective of the study include:

1. To determine the extent to which these factors must

have affected the performances of secondary school

students.

2. To determine the home background on the career

choice of secondary school students.

3. To recommend appropriate measures to enhance

opportunity/efficiency.

4. The also help the present and future of this home

background on the career choice of secondary school

students to perform better.

5. To access the effect of size and volume of responsibility

of education to home background.

6. To suggest better ways of improving education

performance arising from research finding.

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS

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 secondary

students?

2. Is there any relationship between the level of education

of parents and the career choice of secondary school

students?

3. To what extent does the ability and temperament of

parents affect the choice of career of students?

4. Do peer group influence student’s choice of subjects in

the home?

5. Do inadequate learning materials influence student’s

choice of subject?

Home is the bedrock of the child’s socialization process. A

child starts to learn even right from its mother’s womb and as

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such it is born to this world (2 timothy 2:15 as God’s 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

schools can be denied by their parents’ socio-economic status,

level of education, family size of the parent’s 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 STUDY

The importance of this is to explain the influence of home

background on the choice of career among secondary school

students in Ovia north east local government area of Edo state.

This study will provide useful information to parents, teachers

and educational planners, on how home background influences

students’ choice of career in secondary schools. This will help to

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fight against the problems that are caused by this common

factor which is home background.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This study is restricted to secondary schools in Ovia north

east 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.

LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

In the course of carrying out this research it is intended to

cover the entire Home Background in the country. However, it is

limited to secondary schools i.e. Egor Local Government Area of

Edo State, the school includes;

1. Benin Technical College

2. Uselu Girls Grammar School

3. Federal Girls College

4. Hanson Demonstration School and

5. Uselu Boys high College.

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The researcher encountered a lot of problem which

constituted a kind of limitation to data collected most of the

interview/respondents confronted physically or through the

questionnaires did not disclose sufficient information for fear of

identification or restricted which should not divulge. Financial

constraints was another factor with short time provided for the

research work, it is however, hoped that result portray the exert

happening in all other recommendations therefore if applied

shall improve the education all over the country.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Involvement: Willingness to show consideration and

gentleness and also contribute to a child’s choice of career.

Temperament: The parent’s nature shown in the way they

react to their children choice of career.

Impede: factors that delay or stop students in secondary

schools from choosing a career.

Exonerate: Cannot say that the home is not responsible in a

student choice of career.

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Detest: To dislike or hate something

Admonish: The bible advice and urge parents seriously to pay

attention to their children.

Socialization: The process of being socialized open to the

world.

Missionary: Something sent to foreign land to teach people the

goodness of God’s Kingdom.

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