Bridging the Barriers: ICT in the Girl-Child Education in Nigeria

Abstract

The problems militating against the girl child education in Nigeria is an age long factor that hingers on cultural, social and religious undertones where the girl-child is perceived as inferior to the male and hence denied aceess to education anf her roles relegated to that of a home maker, child rearer and house keeper. The need to phase these barriers to the girl-child education is an enormous task educationist is saddled with in this 21^st century and the emergence of ICT to Education has given it a new approach of interest as access to information will create more awareness on issues bothering on the girl-child education. The study was conducted in college of Education zing, Taraba state and drew a sample of 300 female respondents from the department of Social studies. Survey design was adopted for the study and the following findings were made; ICT mostly internet access improves the interest and motivation of female students and in return improves their educational achievement. The study recommended that ICT facilities should be provided for in the schools, trainings should be organiszed in the institutions to help females learn the relevance of ICT to education, female teachers should equally be encouraged to adapt to ICT so that the disparity with the students will be non existence.

Keywords: Girl-Child Education, ICT, Academic achivement