Assessment on Educational Challenges of Street Children and Coping Mechanism at Dale Dembal Primary School in Tafo City Administration
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2020
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The goal for this study was to assess the educational challenges of street children and coping
mechanism at Dale Dembal primary school. The study was mainly qualitative. It employed case
study research design because it allowed the researcher to conduct in-depth interviews and
observation schedules to gather both, factual information systematically and also record the
characteristics of interest as they occur. Purposive sampling techniques methods were used to
decide respondents. All these data were collected through interview, observation and focus
group discussion. The categories of respondents were street children students, family of the
street children students, school director, itinerant teachers, peer of street children student and
home room teacher. The study revealed that many educational challenges that affect street
children as students and they also use different coping mechanism individually and with the
support from the school and the community. The cause of all challenges faced street children
student are poverty, family divorce, death of family, lack of family planning and family illiteracy.
The study recommended that: partnering with local organizations, such as save the children in
Ethiopia, that offer school preparation courses along psychosocial support to help street
children readjust to mainstream life, facilitating coordination between schools and government
to raise awareness of these issues. The school and government has to work on providing street
children and families with school starter kits, which include uniforms, exercise books and other
materials they may need to start their journey into education. Generally, to solve these problems
the researcher recommended the school as they work with community, governmental
organization, non-governmental organization and street children themselves
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The study was mainly qualitative