I want my daughter to take care of me - A study about secondary education in Kenya with special emphasis on the family background of the students 12+

📗 Internship Report from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), 86 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: [...] In Kenya secondary education is still very problematic, as it is cost school fees and this money is often too much for the low-earning families. Therefore only 30% of the eligible studets are going to secondary schools in Kenya (Aduda, Daily Nation, 14.06.2007). [...]During a three-month stay in Kenya I had the chance to conduct an interview with parents, who send their girls to a secondary school in Mabungo, a village next to the city of Ukunda. My aim was to find out, why parents decided to send the girls to school and what they expect from those investments in the future. Four leading hypotheses were established before the interviews took place, namely: 1. Families that have the choice of sending boys or girls to school prefer the boys. [...]2. Only parents who are educated themselves also care about education for their children.3. The work that has to be done around the house prevents parents from sending their children to school, since their working skills are needed in order to feed the family4. Parents see the investing in their children as a step into a secure future for themselves, which is often the main reason why they send their children to school.In order to find out whether those hypotheses apply, the interview was constructed around thos...