Challenges in the Provision of Primary Education for Afar Pastoral Children
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2001-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to examine the current status of the participation of pastoral
Afar children in the prill/my schools of the regioll, identify the major impediments and tl,en come
up with possible illlervention strategies that should be implemented to alleviate the educational
marginalization'of Afar Children, To achieve this purpose a descriptive survey design was used.
Simple random sarnpling and availability sampling techniques were used to select teachers and
student respondents. Of the total 506 questionnaires distributed for teachers (90) and students
(4 16) respondent, of which 480 (94.86%) of them were retumed and used for the analysis.
DescnjJtive survey quantitative and qualitative data clIlalyses methods were used to analyze the
qualitative data, percentages were used to explain the personality characteristics of respondents.
dropout and repetition rates, and degree of influence of different factors ou the educational
participation of pastoral afar children. t- test was used to determine the sigllljicant mean
difference between and among students and teachers upon their views conceming major factors
affecting Afar pastoral children participation in primary education. As the results of this study
revealed, there were a prevalence of barriers to the education of pastoral Afar Children. The
study portrayed that the major hindering factors of pastoral Afar children participation in the
primmy schools of the region were socio -cultural, socio-economic, school related and
administrative/institutional/ challenges. Thus, it can be concluded that the constraints are both
from supply side and demand side of educational provision. In view of this, it is recommended
that, the federal and regional govemment and 11011- governmental agencies should create
conducive en vironment for active involvement, sustain ability of educational programs and
particlj){tlion of Afar pastoral coml1lunity in problem identification, policy formulation, planning,
monitoring and evaluation of the education programs.
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participation of pastoral Afar children