Impact of Community Involvement in Development of Secondary Schools in Tunduru District Council

Social Science

This study concerned with the involvement of the community in the development of secondary schools at the Nakapanya ward, Tunduru district council. The main objective was to analyze the community involvement in the development of secondary schools and provide more insights into how to make community involvement effective and sustainable. The conceptual framework was grounded in school and the community partnership. The study was both quantitative and qualitative approach and it employed 109 participants, 48 communities, 40 students, 16 teachers, 2 village leaders, 2 schools’ administrators, and 1 district education officer. Empirical data were collected through questionnaires and structured interviews. The findings indicated that the community in Nakapanya ward secondary schools was aware of the need for being involved in the development of their secondary schools. The study revealed that poor involvement of the community in the development of secondary schools was the major challenge that mainly impacted students’ poor academic performance, inadequate and poor schools’ buildings, and shortage of teaching and learning materials. The findings also conveyed that, besides poor involvement of the community there were other challenges facing involvement like poor school administration, poor community participation in school meetings, poor cooperation between schools, administrators, and the teachers. It also mentions the importance of government, the community, school’s administrators, policymakers, teachers, and other stakeholders like NGOs to dialogue and come up with a sound conclusion and mechanism of sustainable ways towards effective involvement of all education stakeholders, particularly the community. It concludes that poor involvement of the community was a reality in the area under investigation. Indeed, inter-sectoral and collaborative, efforts are needed to help effective involvement to occupy its right place, hence the total development of secondary schools.

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