Do Distance Education students owned their learning? Students’ perceptions of parenting styles and sex role ideologies.

Abstract

Students have different ideologies about what they consider appropriate and inappropriate when it comes to learning. In view of this the study sought to find out if DE students own their learning regarding parenting styles and sex role ideologies. Correlational research design was employed in this study. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 300 participants from a population of 1480. Using an adopted instruments the Pearson-Product Moment Correlation was used to establish association between parenting styles and sex role ideology and regression was used to ascertain the predictions of the variables. It was found that parenting styles do not contribute to sex role ideologies of the participants to foster learning. However, individuals with authoritative parenting style were more likely to form more modern sex role ideology which influences their learning episode, and individuals with authoritarian parenting style were more likely to have more traditional sex role ideology. The study recommends that since parenting styles relates with sex role ideology DE students need to be guided on how they learn through guidance and counselling to develop the best ideology to learning. Again cultural sentiment need to guide DE students who come from varied cultural settings.

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“…However, there were variations in the use of the test-taking skills in solving activities like developing listening skills for counseling (2.163), developing responding, continuation response and questioning (2.085), and developing skills in feedback; paraphrasing reflection of feelings; confronting (2.020) which fell below the critical value. These findings collaborate and support Amoah, et al (2019) and Owusu-Mensah's (2006) assertion that DE students use varied test-taking strategies in resolving in-built activities in self-instructional modules.…”