Rural Nomadic Fulbe Boys' Primary Schooling: Assessing repertoires of practice in Nigeria
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Abstract
ABSTRACT. In recent years, educational policies for boys have not been given as much attention as those for girls in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rural Nigerian nomadic boys are especially disadvantaged, considering their livelihood is based on a pastoral economy that demands constant migration to interior grasslands in search of pasture. For a more inclusive approach, the federal government of Nigeria promulgated and implemented the Nomadic Educational Policy (NEP). Despite these accommodations, existing school practices affect the boys’ access, attendance, and completion of primary schools. The article elucidates how and why Fulbe nomadic boys are still “left behind᾿ at the primary education level despite specific educational policy developments. This discussion is based on analyzed data and past qualitative study with the boys, and re-situates the nomadic boys’ schooling experiences within some selected learning theories (Bandura, 1977; Maslow, 1971) and discussions of boys’ learning (Epstein, 1998; Gilbert & Gilbert, 1998). The paper concludes with suggestions for policy makers, teachers, and parents to minimize the challenges affecting boys in primary schools. EDUCATION PRIMAIRE DES GARCONS DU PEUPLE FULBE, NOMADES ET RURAUD : ESTIMATION DES REPERTOIRES DE PRATIQUE AU NIGERIA RESUME. Ces dernieres annees, les politiques d’education des garcons ne font pas l’objet d’autant d’attention que celles touchant les filles en Afrique subsaharienne. Les garcons nomades du Nigeria sont particulierement desavantages etant donne que leur mode de vie est fonde sur une economie pastorale qui exige une migration constante vers les terres des prairies de l’interieur, a la recherche de pâturage. Pour mettre en place un systeme plus inclusif, le gouvernement federal du Nigeria a adopte une politique d’education des peuples nomades. Malgre ces efforts, les pratiques des ecoles ont une incidence negative sur l’acces des garcons a la scolarisation, sur leur presence en classe et sur leur achevement du cours primaire. L’auteur explique pourquoi et comment les garcons du peuple nomade Fulbe ne recoivent pas une education primaire convenable malgre les politiques qui ont ete mises en place a cette fin. Le debat se fonde sur les donnees analysees et sur d’anciennes etudes qualitatives. Il replace l’education des garcons nomades dans le contexte de certaines theories de l’apprentissage (Bandura, 1977; Maslow, 1971) et de certains propos sur l’apprentissage des garcons (Epstein, 1998; Gilbert et Gilbert, 1998). En conclusion, l’auteur formule des propositions pour les decideurs, les enseignants et les parents afin de reduire les defis que doivent relever les garcons a l’ecole primaire.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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