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    The heads of schools perceptions and experiences about parental involvement on students’ academic performance in community secondary schools in Tanzania
    (The University of Dodoma, 2019) Gama, Lucas; Mwinjuma, Juma Saidi
    The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences about the influence parental involvement on students’ academic performance among community secondary school head of schools in community schools. Five participants were selected from different community secondary schools based on sex, age, marital status, level of educational attainment, professional experience and experience of working in current schools. Data was collected using in-depth interviews with Heads of School (HS) of community secondary schools. The data analysis process was done qualitatively using thematic unit where by interviews were recorded, transcribed, read word by word repeatedly so as to realize similar ideas for the formation of various themes. The findings revealed that HS perceived apparent parents’ negative perceptions towards schools academic related activities of their children. Basing on HS experiences, poor and negative perceptions resulted from poor students’ academic performance. Another significant finding revealed that parents’ educational background was perceived as one of the factors for parents’ minimal participation of the education of their children. The HS, further, perceived the marginal participation of parents as simply a result of irresponsibility of towards school academic activities of their children. The HS had a belief that parental involvement greatly influences the academic performance of students in community secondary schools. The HS were in view that if parents would strongly give cooperation and effectively make follow up of their children school academic progress, the students’ academic performance in community secondary schools would have raised significantly. Basing on findings, the study concludes by demonstrating a significant positive relationship between parents’ participation and academic performance of students in community schools.
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    Perceptions towards the indisciplined students in public secondary schools: A case of Kinondoni municipality in Tanzania
    (The University of Dodoma, 2019) Massiru, Francis Nyika; Mwinjuma, Juma Saidi
    The purpose of this study was to investigate insights of teachers towards indisciplined students and the academic performance of students. The study employed phenomenological research design to collect and analyse data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three categories of respondents: heads of schools, discipline masters and teachers of public secondary schools. Twelve informants were purposively selected from a number of schools. The findings of the study revealed teachers’ aversion towards indisciplined students. The study, further, showed that teachers choose to deal indisciplined students in order to improve their academic achievements. In the same vein, the study revealed that lack of parental cooperation predominantly contributed to indiscipline behaviour of students in secondary schools. The findings of this study led to draw the following conclusions: indisciplined students were left in the hands of teachers and school management committees while other stakeholders like parents and the community at large were taking minimal trouble in managing students’ discipline at schools. When dealing with indiscipline students, teachers take the role of guardians, parents and counsellors so as to facilitate effective discipline management in respective schools. The study recommends for the need and urgency for stakeholders to take collaborative efforts on discipline management strategies in public secondary school so as to improve students’ academic performance.