Issues, Practices And Problems Of School Community Relations In The Senior Secondary Schools of Region Three
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1995-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study attempted to determine the status of school-community relations in
the senior secondary schools of Region Three. In order to meet this objective
performance of schools was rated in light of Davis s six school-community relation
levels and information was gathered and analysed using percentages, chi-square tests
t-tests and rank orders.
The results indicated that the status of the school-community relations is at low
Ie . el and of one-way communication. There is a limited flow of information from
schools to their communities. Thus the school-community interaction in the schools
studied is at its rudimentary stage. Celebrating school days and in olving parents
concerned in correcting severe misbehaviors of their children are the typical practices
of the schools. Parents rarely go to schools to make recurrent follow-up of school
activities and progress of their children. Besides, schools do not design mechanisms to
receive feedbacks and suggestions from the publics concerned. These findings reveal
that schools are adapting a less integrated approach in the process of educating children
and the youth and, do not seem to be in a position to secure public and parental
support.
The shortcomings of the school-community relations programs are found to be:
the public feeling that "the education of children is the sole responsibility of educators"
lack of parents' interest to participate in school affairs, lack of know-how of the school
personnel and public relations workers, absence of system-wide activities to back-up
efforts of individual schools, and high formalization in the educational hierarchy to
consider desires and suggestions of the public.
Strategies for offering trainings, educational radio program aimed at awareness
raising, basic research for assessing opinions of "informed" and "elite" publics,
involving prominent educators in educational policy formulation, introducing an
Education Committee at "wereda" level, parent-teacher and parent-principal conferences
at school level have been forwarded with the intention of improving the practice
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