CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The academic performance of students in economics in secondary school these days has been attributed to many family factors. Many people including the sociologists and philosophers have carried out a number of resources into those factors that hinder or enhance students’ performance in Economics. They include poor quality of teaching, irregular attendance at school, emotional attitude of the child to school and school subjects, defective physical conditions which are manifested in poor hearing, bad vision, impediment of speech, the environment and the society as well as the occupation of the father of the student among other related factors. The raging friction between the school as to which of the two is in fact responsible for the poor or good performance of student in economic examination has enabled the researcher to take a cursory look at the influence of fathers occupation on the academic performance of student in area of Edo state is chosen as a case study.
The study is rooted in the theory that there is need for a close cooperation between is need for a close cooperation between the home and the school for an understanding of the learning problem of children. The society has apparently decided for better or worse to educate it children outside the home in separate, self contained, single purpose establishments. Having lived of education from here in this way, to go on and discuss the way they influence each other could be a matter of for they can be resolved most at the root of all discussion about teacher parent relation. There was a time when a parents rarely entered school except to assault looking school master. Teachers on their part, were supposed to be quality of showing no interest in the home to which their pupils belonged. However, nowadays there is undoubtedly a considerable upsurge of interest in the relationship between home and school, and a trend towards ensuring this interest various formal organization and system in many schools have presents teacher organization, many areas have action groups of one sort to another, you have the national confederation of parents teacher association and the advisory centre for education, all of whom are very much concerned with home school links for the purpose of educational achievement of children.
Similarly, it has been accepted that learning can occur in many different settings in the home and play ground, for example as well as in the classroom. Every child brings with him into the class room all his ear, her home training and experience, a kind of internal environment that makes him an environmental factors of considerable significance to others. A learning environment is therefore more than that which can be measured in the students immediate physical surrounding, it includes everything inside and outside the space the child occupies which in any way affects his behavior during a particular learning routine. Economic background characteristics associated with academic performance and intelligence can be divided into two status variable high economic status and low economic status. Both status are determined by the level of education, occupation, and income in the society. These variables though interesting, tell little about how their effects are mediated to child and into process variables, such as achievement process of parents, home language models, academic home guidance and social participation of family.
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