Stories of hope : a community endeavor to promote college access with rural youths in Benue state of Nigeria
department or school: Education, Faculty of
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degree campus: UBCV
creator: Orkar, Miriam Mwada
issued: 2016-07-26T02:00:31
issued: 2016
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This study is about understanding the experiences of some of the youths who participated in the NeboReach Youth Empowerment Project (NYEP) and their parents, and how their experiences inform the understanding of the researcher, of her own experiences with regards to educational access, and the interpretations of those experiences retrospectively. The NYEP was initiated by the researcher in 2005 in Katsina-Ala, a rural town in Benue State of Nigeria with the goal to promote access to tertiary education for out of school secondary school leavers who aspire to further their education. The motivation for initiating the project was enhanced by the fact that the researcher had experienced some difficulties with educational access as a girl-child in a Nigerian rural town of Kwajafa, in the 1960’s. Eighteen youths participated in the NYEP in a span of 10 years (2005-2014). After six years of operation, there was an evidence of a positive appraisal for the project, as the researcher continued to receive texts while in Vancouver from youths in Katsina-Ala who wanted to enrol in the project for the first time. This suggested that there was a need for the project to continue, and to expand. Hence feedback from NYEP youth participants and their parents, regarding the relevance of the project became crucial. The auto-ethnography method was used in this study, and data was collected through reflexive dyadic interviews with six youths and five parents. The community leader also participated in the study. Other sources of data were used—such as journal entries, informal conversations, photographs and videos. The researcher’s experience, with regards to accessing tertiary education was also considered as part of the data. Research participants’ informal conversations with the researcher were regarded as valuable sources of data as the formal interviews. The findings revealed that the greatest hurdles the NYEP youths faced, and are still facing in terms of accessing tertiary education…
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note: STORIES OF HOPE: A COMMUNITY ENDEAVOR TO PROMOTE COLLEGE ACCESS WITH RURAL YOUTHS IN BENUE STATE OF NIGERIA by MIRIAM MWADA ORKAR B. Sc., Ahmadu Bello University, 1976 M. Ed., Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1977 Dip., The University of British Columbia, 1994 M.A., The University of British Columbia, 1997 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Cross Faculty Inquiry) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) July 2016 © Miriam Mwada Orkar, 2016 ii Abstract This study is about understanding the experiences of some of the youths who participated in the NeboReach Youth Empowerment Project (NYEP) and their parents, and how their experiences inform the understanding of the researcher, of her own experiences with regards to educational access, and the interpretations of those experiences retrospectively. The NYEP was initiated by the researcher in 2005 in Katsina-Ala, a rural town in Benue State of Nigeria with the goal to promote access to tertiary education for out of school secondary school leavers who aspire to further their education. The motivation for initiating the project was enhanced by the fact that the researcher had experienced some difficulties with educational access as a girl-child in a Nigerian rural town of Kwajafa, in the 1960’s. Eighteen youths participated in the NYEP in a span of 10 years (2005-2014). After six years of operation, there was an evidence of a positive appraisal for the project, as the researcher continued to receive texts while in Vancouver from youths in Katsina-Ala who wanted to enrol in the project for the first time. This suggested that there was a need for the project to continue, and to expand. Hence feedback from NYEP youth participants and their parents, regarding the relevance of the project became crucial. The auto-ethnography method was used in this study, and data was collected through reflexive dyadic inter…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2016-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0306927
language: eng
degree discipline: Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58530