The role of guardian occupation on children's access to school nomadic pastoralist Samburu County, Kenya

Abstract

This study aimed to establish the role of guardian occupation on children's access to school nomadic Pastoralists in Samburu County, Kenya. Samburu District was stratified into three clusters to facilitate the data collection: Highland-Rural, Lowland-Rural and Urban. Multi-stage and random sampling were used to select from each cluster, one division, one location, one sub-location and then 200 household heads from all the villages in the sub-location. That is moving from the division down to the villages using random sampling. Data were collected and analysed using Excel and SPSS computer packages and further presented using descriptive and inferential statistics. The specific tools used were frequencies, cross-tabulations, contingency tables, chi-square, multiple regression, correlation, and qualitative presentation in the form of quotations and photographs. The study established that the relationship between guardian occupation and access to basic formal education was found to be very significant at a 100 per cent level of significance. Therefore, the study recommended that there is a need for stronger, effective and aggressive community sensitisation programmes to encourage them to engage in viable modern forms of occupation such as crop farming. This recommendation is in light of the study findings that guardian occupation determines access to basic formal education.