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Socio-economic and cultural problems facing female Students’ performance in secondary schools: a case of schools in Temeke municipality, Tanzania.
(Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2011) Msigwa,Walter Joseph
The study on socio-economic and cultural problems facing female students' performance in secondary schools was conducted in Temeke Municipality. In spite of measures taken by key stakeholders including the government and the NGOs in Tanzania the problem of poor academic performance is still unsolved inTemeke Municipality. The overall objective of the study was to assess socio-economic and cultural problems facing female students in secondary school education in Temeke Municipality. The specific objectives were to examine female students learning environment at school, to identify socioeconomic and cultural problems that female students face in home environment and to identify strategics needed to address female students' socio-economic and cultural problems in secondary education. The cross sectional research design was adopted in this study. Four community secondary schools were randomly selected. In each selected school secondary 30 students were randomly selected. Data were collected using structured questionnaires for students, focus group discussion and key informant interview. The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 12.0 version computer software program. The results showed that, information on socio-economic and cultural problems that face female students were the root cause for poor academic performance in their secondary education. Among these were verbal harassment such as use of abusive languages, discrimination, living far from school premises, traditional ceremonies, having pre-marital sex and poor economic status of parents. There is a need of providing more education/information to the community and parents on the factors leading to poor performance of female students in secondary education.