Challenges facing primary education under decentralisation of primary school management in Tanzania
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Date
2016
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Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA
Abstract
Decentralisation of primary school management in Tanzania has mainly been
implemented by the Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP). This
programme has shown some successes in enrolment expansion and some
improvements in classrooms, teachers’ houses and pupils’ latrines construction.
The increase in enrolment, however, has resulted into crowded classrooms that
make teaching a big challenge. In this study, the visited primary schools in Dar
es Salaam and Mbeya faced a massive shortage of desks and classrooms and
teaching and learning materials that affected the whole process of teaching and
learning. Data indicate that there had been some improvements of pupils’
performance in Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) in the beginning
of the PEDP implementation (2002-2006). Recently, the available evidence
suggests a declining trend of the pass rate in this examination for three years
consecutively from 2007-2009. While involvement of the community in the
school development plans may be important, there is a need for the government
to intervene where it seems to be some problems in order to safeguard the
pupils. I argue in this paper that, what is regarded as free education for all in
primary schools is likely to create more harm than what is expected. For
Tanzania to achieve its vision of 2025 that stresses on the learned society and
preparation of people who are conscious about their own environment and be
able to solve their problems encountered in their daily life class size has to be
controlled and the provision of teaching and learning materials is vital
Description
Abstract. Full text article available at https://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_6_No_1_January_2016/22.pdf
Keywords
Primary school, Decentralisation, Primary education, Management, Primary school management, Primary Education Development Programme, PEDP
Citation
Matete, R. (2016). Challenges facing primary education under decentralisation of primary school management in Tanzania. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 6(1), 175-184.