Assessment Of Extension Education As A Strategy For Poverty Reduction In Enugu State, Nigeria
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Assessment Of Extension Education As A Strategy For Poverty Reduction In Enugu State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
This study assessed Extension education as a poverty-reduction approach in Enugu State, Nigeria. The study sought to gather helpful information about Extension education programs used to reduce poverty.
The study specifically sought to determine the causes of poverty, health extension education services, agricultural extension education services, commercial and home economics extension education services, industrial and university extension education services used for poverty reduction, and the barriers to using extension education as a poverty reduction strategy among the residents of Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State.
The study was conducted in 28 communities that were purposefully chosen because the registered associations and cooperative societies whose members served as respondents are located in the Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State. Six research questions shaped the study. Six hypotheses were evaluated at the 0.05 level of significance.
The study used a descriptive survey research design. Data were collected using a 67-item structured questionnaire devised by the researcher and dubbed “Extension Education for Poverty Reduction Questionnaire (EEPRQ)”.
The study included 1598 members of registered groups and cooperative societies. The Yaro Yamane Formula was used to choose a sample of 320 individuals from the community.
The acquired data was analysed using Mean and Standard Deviation for the Research Questions, and t-test statistics were employed to assess the six null hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance.
The questionnaire was face validated by three experts, one from the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, one from the Department of Vocational Teacher Education, and one from the Department of Science Education at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The Cronbach Alpha reliability approach yielded the following reliability coefficients for the clusters: cluster B =.75, cluster C =.82, cluster D =.85, cluster E =.90, cluster F =.94, and cluster G =.95, for an overall reliability coefficient of.93.
The study’s findings revealed that the reasons of poverty include illiteracy, low political awareness, socio-cultural issues, low economic empowerment, and a lack of skill acquisition centres.
Furthermore, health extension education services, agricultural extension education services, commercial and home economics extension education services, industrial and university extension education services are all employed to reduce poverty.
Furthermore, various issues preclude the implementation of extension education as a poverty reduction approach among the residents of Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State.
Based on the findings, the researcher recommended, among other things, that there be adequate skill acquisition and literacy education centres, as well as that health, agricultural, commercial, home economics, industrial, and university extension education services be used to reduce poverty among the residents of Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State.
The researcher provided some recommendations for further research, including an assessment of extension education as a poverty reduction strategy in South-East Nigeria.
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