Constraints in managing community secondary schools in the Morogoro municipality, Tanzania
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Date
2011
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
This study aimed to find out constraints in managing community secondary schools in
Tanzania with specific reference to Morogoro Municipality. Specifically the study
intended to; (i) identify constraints that school heads experience in managing
community secondary schools in Tanzania with specific reference to Morogoro
their administration experience in managing community secondary schools and link
these variables to their effectiveness in performing school management responsibilities
and finally, (iii) examine the impact of constraints on management of community
secondary schools in Morogoro Municipality.
The Open system model by Hoy and Miskel (2001) formed the conceptual framework in
this study. The study employed a descriptive survey design to 73 purposively and
randomly selected the school heads and other education coordinators in Morogoro
Municipality. The findings indicated that, the inadequacy of the school heads’ academic
qualifications; interference from political leaders, delayed responses, lack of
participatory decision making, low cooperation with teachers and unfriendly working
environment were the major constraints facing the school heads in managing community
secondary schools. The study concludes that, the identified constraints have resulted into
ineffective management of community schools. The study recommends an urgent need
to review procedures and criteria of appointing the school heads as stipulated by the
1995 Education and Training policy which was reviewed in 2009.The study further
argues that politics should not interfere school heads’ authority.
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Community secondary, Constraints, Morogoro municipality