Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Female Education in Nigeria: Implications for Sports Administration in Schools

Abstract

This paper sought to identify Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Gender Education in Nigeria Implications for Sports Administration. The population of the study comprised of 3993 male and female secondary school teachers from the six Geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The multiple stage sampling technique was used to select 5 schools from each of the (6) six geopolitical zones of the country. Out of which 277 were males while 3716 were females. Sampling them at 50% rate a total of 138 males and 1858 females were sampled. The instrument for data collection was the use of questionnaire which was validated by two experts each from departments of Educational Foundations and Human Kinetics & Health Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. The validated instrument was trial - tested with the use of Crobach alpha co- efficient to obtain an internal consistency reliability of 0.78. Mean scores were used to profer answers to the two research questions, while the t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses. The research findings revealed that the educated women are more aware of the value of sports (physical education) in gender education. Furthermore the study revealed absence of gender sports sensitive schools environment; persistent gender discrimination at the home and community levels. Recommendations were made.