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    Assessment of Community Participation in the Implementation of Primary School Curriculum with Specific Reference to Wolayita Zone Damot Woyde Woreda, SNNPRS
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-07) Kumalo, Memhiru; Areaya, Solomon (PhD)
    The main purpose of this study was to assess how members of the community participate and contribute to the implementation of the primary school curriculum. The community is strategically partner in a variety of ways towards the provision and management of education as well as teaching learning and enforcement processes. However, based on school and woreda reports as well as the researcher's observation during his career the participation of the communities on schools regarding curriculum implementation in Damot Woyede Woreda was raised as one of the problems that needs improvement. The study was conducted in six primary schools in Wolayita Zone Damot Woyde Woreda, SNNPRS. A total of 270 respondents participated in the study comprising of 199 students, 23 teachers, 6 principals, 4 WEOs, 8 PTSA members, 10 SETB members and 20 parents. To select the participants the researcher used simple random, purposive and stratified sampling methods respectively. The data gathered through questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS software to find frequency, percentage and mean value and qualitative data were used as supplementary data presented under quantitative data. Descriptive survey design was used in this study and the data were collected by questionnaires, interviews, observations and document analysis. Primary school curriculum implementation needs a shared effort and responses from the community, teachers, principals, and students. In the study area community participation in curriculum implementation are limited because of the community awareness towards to it. The roles of the school community in the implementation of school curriculum like follow up their children’s’ learning, communicating with teachers about their childes learning, supporting school by resources to facilitate teaching learning process and the others are below the expectation. It is recommended that partnership and interaction between community and school in implementing curriculum must be built to provide initiative, responsibility, sensitivity for participation in education and school governance designed to improve community participation in the implementation of the primary school curriculum.