Abstract
Pastoral Fulani nomads are among the marginalized and educationally disadvantageous communities in Nigeria, and many African countries. Since education remained the mechanism for individual, community and national developments, such groups need to be given attention for the success of sustainable development goal in African nations. To achieve this, human, as well as sociocultural hindrances associated with their educational development need to be evaluated. Therefore, this study explore how pulaaku moral value influences the understanding and perception of the nomadic Fulani in education as the precipitating factor for non-participation in education in Ikara district. Two themes emerged as the findings; firstly Perception of the pastoral Fulani on education generally. Secondly factors precipitating non-participation, is presented into subthemes; strict adherence to pulaaku moral values, fear of fragmentation of social capital, lack of role model and parent ignorance. Thus, the study concluded that Fulani pastoral communities have positive perception on education, but it was evident that socio-cultural factors such as lacking role model with pulaaku principle, perception in fear of the system as a threat to social capital and ignorance influenced their low participation. Hence, there is the need for policymakers, government agencies and stakeholders to have an in-depth conceptual understanding of the Fulani values through funding ethnographic research project, and possibly integrate its ideas and those factors in the design of an acceptable nomadic education system particularly the pulaaku. Also, integrate community-based volunteer groups, purposively for advocacy and awareness will enhanced the group understanding and participation in educational community development.
Highlights
Pastoralism is a system of keeping livestock such as cattle, sheep and goat as a source of survival, always in constant movement from one place to another in search of pasture and water
The study concluded that Fulani pastoral communities have positive perception on education, but it was evident that socio-cultural factors such as lacking role model with pulaaku principle, perception in fear of the system as a threat to social capital and ignorance influenced their low participation
2017, Vol 5, No 1 precipitating factor for the poor participation in educational community development in Ikara district of Kaduna state; the purpose of this study is to explore how pulaaku moral value of the pastoral Fulani community influence their perception and understanding to education and to answer the question, why the low participation of the Fulani in educational community development in Ikara district keep on persisting
Summary
Pastoralism is a system of keeping livestock such as cattle, sheep and goat as a source of survival, always in constant movement from one place to another in search of pasture and water. Central to the discipline of social and development sciences is the concept of education It is with the vision of achieving the sustainable development goals SDGs-four of envisaging the world with literacy globally, and access to equitable quality education to everyone globally, with the hope of transforming our world by 2030 (UN, 2015). In light of the recent event in education, it is becoming extremely difficult to ignore the existence of high illiteracy, dropout and marginalization in education It is a fact in 2013, youth within the ages of fifteen to twenty-four years totaling about one hundred and twenty-three million are still lacking in basic education skills in reading and writing (UNESCO-EFA., 2013). It was argued that the nations were challenged with multiple issues in terms of low school participation, poor quality in education, high adult illiteracy and are marked with gender inequalities (UNESCO-EFA., 2013)
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