Effects of parental migration on the education outcome of their children: a case of Sukuma Society in Tanzania
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Date
2023-10-30
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Publisher
AJESS
Abstract
The Purpose: To investigate the effects of parents’ migration on the schooling and education
outcome of their children. The study was guided by three specific objectives, namely: (i) to find out
the effects of parent migration on children's academic performance. (ii) to determine the awareness
of immigrant parents towards their children academic outcome and lastly (iii) to analyze the
strategies taken by different stakeholders to reduce the negative effect of migration towards
children schooling and academic performance.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried in Ifakala District in Morogoro region in
Tanzania from October 2022 to May 2023.
The Study Design: The study adopted a qualitative research approach with a case study design.
Research Methodology: Simple randomly sampling techniques with a total of 40 respondents
were used to get the respondents. Interview, questionnaire and documentary review were used to
get the desired information from the selected respondents. Questionnaire approach in data collection was used to collect information asking open ended questions to the respondents. The
quantitative data were collected using interviews and analyzed using descriptive statistics to
determine frequency, and percentage. Data gathered was presented in tables computed using
Microsoft excel.
Results: With regards to specific objectives of this study, findings of the study showed that the
main effects of parents’ migration on their children among Sukuma society at Morogoro Region are,
truancy, drop out from school, poverty, health problem, additional responsibility, suscept to victims
of crime, lack of appropriate care and low self-esteem and emotional difficult. It was concluded that
the government should put some strategies which can help the parents to overcome the effects of
parents’ migration to their children’ academic outcome through educating parents on how to live
with their children and motivate in their academic performance at school.
Description
Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies Page 61-70
Keywords
Parents' migration, Schooling outcomes, Education impact, Sukuma society, Truancy, academic performance, Government strategies
Citation
https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/107477