Factors Affecting Primary Education Enrollment of Pastoralist Children in The Pastoralist Areas of East Showa Zone
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2007-08
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was conducted for investigating major ji/ctors that hindered primary education
enrol/ment of the pasloralisl children in East Showa zone. To this end, a descriptive survey
method was employed, Apart from consultation of documents from relevant sources, data were
gatheredFom 300 Kerayu students, 80 teachers, 6 educational officers ,8 pastoral members who
got formal education, 4 tribal leaders who were selected by applying random sampling technique
for students and purposive sampling was used for teachers, educational officials and interviews.
Questionnaire and interview were instruments employed for data collection while, mean,
percentage, correlation and regression were used for analyzing the data. Based on the findings
Fom data analysis socio-cultural and socio-economic constraints have been identified as major
constraints. Furthermore, institutional factors like administratively inflexible school calendar,
irrelevance of curriculum, low administrative capacity of educational officials were also found to
be barriers to the educational participation of Kerayu and ftu pastoral children. D~pending on
the results of the findings, it was recommended that policy and strategy for pastoral children
education, flexible educational calendar, construction of boarding schools and hostels by inviting
both bilateral and multilateral non-governmental organizations, sustaining school feeding
program and widening its provision. Moreover, encouraging non-formal education, promoting
the capacity bui/ding programs for educational officials and recruiting skilled educational
personnel to improve service delivery were recommended.
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Factors Affecting Primary Education Enrollment