Practices and Challenges of Community Participation in Government Secondary Schools Management in Oromia Region Holeta Administrative Town
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The Purpose of this study was to investigate the current practices of community
participation in the management of government secondary schools of Oromia Region
Holeta Administrative Town. For this study, descriptive survey method was employed;
both quantitative and qualitative data were used to gather information through
questionnaire, interviews and document analysis. From the total sample size of the four
study groups, 45 teachers which are selected by simple random sampling (lottery
method), 21 KETB members, 21PTA members and 8 secondary school principals
selected purposively, all filled and returned the questionnaire which is 100% of the total
samples. In addition, five education office experts and one secondary school supervisor
were selected purposively and interviewed. The other tool used in this study was
document analysis. While analyzing the data collected using these mentioned tools;
frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were employed. Some of the major
findings based on the research questions were, concerning to the extent of community
participation in government secondary school management such as assisting their
children while they were doing their exercises found to be low, attending regular
meeting, With respect to the KETB and PTA participation in the key management
functions such as planning, resource mobilize, decision making, managing discipline
and monitoring and evaluation was low level. Factors that affect the community
participation in the management of secondary schools, lack of commitment, lack of
training, inappropriate time and place of meeting, negative attitudes of principals and
teachers towards the role of community representatives members and lack of confidence
of community representatives members for they are not professional were found as the
major factors. To improve the situation, allowing the community to participate actively
in school management through community representatives members, providing adequate
training to members of PTA and KETB, principals and teachers how to carry out their
responsibilities, creating conducive environment by encourage members of PTA and
KETB, and arrange time and place of meeting on their interest, provide rewards for PTA
and KETB those who have better performance would be awarded during parents day at
school level. Town education experts should give professional support to teachers,
principals, KETB and PTA in order to improve their limitations; they also had great
responsibility to link the schools with other stakeholders is recommended to solve the
problems.
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Challenges of Community Participation in, Government Secondary Schools Management