Exploring Dropout Issues Amidst Social Change Among Fulbe Nomadic Students in Nigeria

This study aimed to investigate the areas where education serves as an instrument for injecting positive social changes among Fulbe nomads in Nigeria and to identify some socio-cultural practices of the nomads that contributed to the manifestation of school dropouts among many Fulbe nomadic students in the country. Being a qualitative research design of ethnographic approach, collection of data relies on observations of interactions and interviews with participants in a natural situation where structured questions were administered in six nomadic centres within the study area that is known to have a very high record of Fulbe nomadic dropout students in the country. The findings revealed that learning process, value concept and conduct were the areas where schooling injected social change among the nomads while the study identified relationship as a major factor that cause dropout among Fulbe nomadic students. The paper concluded by recommending the need for urgent intervention of the Fulbe nomadic students from early school quitting due to domestic activities of the nomads in Nigeria.