Assessment of Community Participation in the Implementation of Primary School Curriculum with Specific Reference to Wolayita Zone Damot Woyde Woreda, SNNPRS
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2017-07
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Addis Ababa University
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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.
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Assessment of Community Participation, Participationplementation of Primary, School Curriculum