PROBLEM OF EDUCATING THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SCHOOLS IN BENIN CITY)
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PROBLEM
OF EDUCATING THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED
SCHOOLS IN BENIN CITY)
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to investigate the
problems of educating the physically handicapped students in Edo State as some
selected schools in Benin City will be used as the sample. A questionnaires
designed by the researcher was used to collect information from one hundred and
fifty (150) respondents comprising of teachers and students in some selected
schools in Benin City. During the course of the research, the researcher found
out that the talent of educability is all innate tendency in human beings whether
disabled or not. It also covers the roles of teachers in educating the
physically challenged. It was also found out that physically challenged
students could perform excellently well in academic work like the normal
students. The researcher recommended that the handicapped should be encouraged
to remove the ill feelings of their disability and feel free with their normal
peers. It was also suggested that government and well meaning Nigerians should
fund the education of physically challenged persons.
TABLE
OF CONTENT
Chapter
One
1.1
Introduction
Who is a handicapped child?
1.2
Statement
of the problem
1.3
Purpose
of the study
1.4
Research
questions
1.5
Basic
assumptions
1.6
Delimitation
of the study
1.7
Limitations
of the study
1.8
Significance
of the study
1.9
Definition
of terms
Chapter
Two
2.1
Literature
Review
2.2
The
public perception of handicapped children
2.3
Aims and
effects of education on the handicapped children
2.4
Handicapped
children and the past development in learning
2.5
Role of
government and other organizations in elevating the status of the handicap.
Chapter
There
Design
of the study
3.1
Population
of the study
3.2
Sample
and sampling procedures
3.3
Research
instrument
3.4
Validity
of the instrument
3.5
Method of
data analysis
Chapter
Four
4.1
Data
analysis and interpretation
Chapter
Five
5.1
Summary
5.2
Conclusion
5.3
Recommendations
5.4
Suggestions
for further research
References
Questionnaires
CHAPTER ONE
1.1
INTRODUCTION
The handicapped children are
gifted children who have the ability to be educated irrespective of their
disabilities, like the deaf, the blind, the dumb, lame etc. there is a need to
redirect national interest, support and understanding for the plight of the
disabled away from the traditional attitude of seeing them as qualified only
for aims.
A situation where handicapped
persons, expect those who could be taken care of by their families are
relegated to relyn on public emotions expressed in the form of alms, does not
augur well for our sense of social responsibility. Yunusa (1993) believes that
physical handicapped does not mean they cannot contribute their quota to
various facets of national development. Therefore, the handicapped students in
Edo State posses the talents and all the aggregate of learning just like their
counterparts at school. Education which is a life process must be provided for
every individual, the physically handicapped inclusive. The term ‘handicap’ can
be viewed in many ways mainly psychological and maladjustment.
WHO IS A HANDICAPPED CHILD?
A handicapped child is a child that lacks some things that made him/her
incapable of living like other children, it could be the hands, legs, eyes,
ears, etc in reverie day life, the term handicap is often used to signify a
physical defect, limb paralysis, partial or total blindness etc. all these
features renders the child incapable of living in quite the same ways as the
normally endowed.
The term handicapped when used in a wider sense include intellectual
disabilities and disadvantages, which are to cause learning hardship. In the
light of the above discussion, the study will look into various hardship likely
to be faced by the handicapped child I school., previous researchers have
revealed that Behaviour are judged in terms of the societal existing standard
therefore the ability of the handicapped can be under estimated by their
teachers because already they are termed “special children”. Many assume that
they cannot perform as well as the naturally endowed students.
This study will examine the various problems facing the education of the
handicap ones.
1.2
STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEMS
This study is to assess the
problem of the handicapped students in schools in Edo State.
1.3
PURPOSE
OF THE STUDY
To identify the handicapped
conditions that are suitable for learning.
To consider the effects of the
physically handicapped on the career of the physically handicapped students.
To correct the general belief of
people that handicapped students cannot contribute significantly to the
society.
To assess the problems of the
handicapped students in schools in Benin City and Edo State in general.
1.4
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
a.
Does
being handicapped affects students performance in learning?
b.
Are there
no special problems that prevent the handicapped students from performing
effectively in learning?
c.
Is it not
possible for handicaps to take part in learning activities like other normal
students?
1.5
BASIC
ASSUMPTIONS
a.
That
being handicapped does not affect student’s performance in learning.
b.
That
there are no special problems that prevent the handicapped students from
performing effectively in learning.
c.
That it
is not possible for handicaps to take part in learning activities like the
normal students.
1.6
DELIMITATIONS
OF THE STUDY
The investigation embraces only
one type of handicapped condition, which is physical deformity. This study will
be carried out in five schools in Benin City with handicapped children.
1.7
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
i.
Handicapped
students need extra attention in order to be successful.
ii.
They need
special attention from their teachers before they can learn effectively.
iii.
There are
no special problems that can prevent the handicapped children not to learn.
iv.
The responsibilities
of teachers to the handicapped students has to be gr4eatly improved than that
of the normal students.
1.8
DEFINITIONS
OF TERMS
Handicap: This
implies the inconveniences an individual encounter as a result of its
impairments thereby hindering a person from living a normal life.
Disability: This is
a loss of ability of activity restriction or disturbance of the activity level
of an individual.
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