Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis

This study explores the challenges of implementing youth voice in school-based management committees (SBMC) in Nigeria. SBMC are a form of youth-adult partnership that involve communities in the management of local primary schools. The program aims to provide community members, including vulnerable...

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Main Authors: Umar, Bashiru Bako, Krauss, Steven Eric, Ahrari, Seyedali, Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi, Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah
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spelling my.upm.eprints.950932023-02-03T08:21:44Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95093/ Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis Umar, Bashiru Bako Krauss, Steven Eric Ahrari, Seyedali Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah This study explores the challenges of implementing youth voice in school-based management committees (SBMC) in Nigeria. SBMC are a form of youth-adult partnership that involve communities in the management of local primary schools. The program aims to provide community members, including vulnerable groups such as young people who traditionally lack a voice in community leadership structures, opportunities to partake in school governance. The current study used a qualitative case study approach by interviewing 19 committee members from two SBMCs in Niger State. Thematic analysis from interviews revealed that differential treatment of people of different ages, traditional power structures, the lack of a participatory culture in decision-making, and conventional role divisions impeded the practice of youth voice in the early stages of the SBMCs. The findings provide important insight from an understudied cultural setting on the need to consider sociocultural barriers to youth voice in community-based initiatives. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2021-04-14 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95093/1/19%20JSSH%28S%29-1505-2021.pdf Umar, Bashiru Bako and Krauss, Steven Eric and Ahrari, Seyedali and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah (2021) Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis. Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 29 (spec.1). 355 - 374. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/pjssh/browse/special-issue?article=JSSH(S)-1505-2021 10.47836/pjssh.29.s1.19
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description This study explores the challenges of implementing youth voice in school-based management committees (SBMC) in Nigeria. SBMC are a form of youth-adult partnership that involve communities in the management of local primary schools. The program aims to provide community members, including vulnerable groups such as young people who traditionally lack a voice in community leadership structures, opportunities to partake in school governance. The current study used a qualitative case study approach by interviewing 19 committee members from two SBMCs in Niger State. Thematic analysis from interviews revealed that differential treatment of people of different ages, traditional power structures, the lack of a participatory culture in decision-making, and conventional role divisions impeded the practice of youth voice in the early stages of the SBMCs. The findings provide important insight from an understudied cultural setting on the need to consider sociocultural barriers to youth voice in community-based initiatives.
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author Umar, Bashiru Bako
Krauss, Steven Eric
Ahrari, Seyedali
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah
spellingShingle Umar, Bashiru Bako
Krauss, Steven Eric
Ahrari, Seyedali
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah
Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
author_facet Umar, Bashiru Bako
Krauss, Steven Eric
Ahrari, Seyedali
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah
author_sort Umar, Bashiru Bako
title Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
title_short Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
title_full Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
title_fullStr Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
title_full_unstemmed Socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in Nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
title_sort socio-cultural barriers to youth voice in nigerian school-based management committees: a multi-case analysis
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2021
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95093/1/19%20JSSH%28S%29-1505-2021.pdf
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