Browsing by Author "Malekani, A."

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Challenges of school libraries and quality education in Tanzania: A review
(2019) Mubofu, C.; Malekani, A.
Quality education is fundamental for pupils’ advancement in any country. School libraries are said to be the second class for pupils because of the important role they play in enhancing the quality of education. School libraries are the avenues for cultivating pupils’ morals, the important facade for improving pupils’ education quality and for effective facilities for developing special technical education, serving as a friendly place for increasing pupils’ total education quality. The general idea for school libraries is to intensify the quality of education in schools through provision of adequate facilities such as chairs, tables, textbooks and qualified library staff to guide pupils in appropriate usage of libraries for better performance and hence lead to quality education in the country. Despite of the tremendous contribution of school libraries in increasing the students’ performance it has been discovered that this role is not recognized by most of the government officials. The challenges such as staffing, funding, lack of standard library building and frequent change in curriculum that affects collection development need to be addressed by the government if at all the country has to provide quality education to her citizens.
The Use of information and communication technologies for improved rural agricultural productivity in Tanzania: challenges and opportunities
(Institute of Continuing Education, 2008-12) Chailla, A. M.; Malekani, A.
Many constraints that hamper the performance of agriculture in Tanzania are aggravated by poor agricultural information services, a situation which should no longer be on development agenda because, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can improve availability, access, use and sharing of agricultural information among rural communities for increased agricultural productivity and food security. However, given its potentials and applications in all economic sectors, the role of ICTs has not yet been given due attention in agricultural sector in Tanzania. The country has not done much to integrate ICTs into strategies and policies for increasing agricultural performance. Agricultural research findings available in libraries and research institutions are in inappropriate formats, languages and technical levels for adoption by both extension workers and farmers while such findings could have been repackaged using appropriate ICTs and disseminated to users for use. Thus, this paper highlights possible opportunities, potentials and challenges of investment and promotion of ICTs in rural agriculture for productive extension services, increased, sustainable agriculture, food security and poverty reduction. The paper calls to undertake a project that aims at investigating and taking interventions to enhance the use of ICTs in sharing agricultural information in rural communities in Tanzania to complement extension services, which have so far been inadequate to meet the diversified information needs of farmers. In conclusion, the paper calls for a closer collaboration among researchers, extension personnel and information personnel through capacity building to increase the level of awareness of rural communities to seek, access and share agricultural information through use of ICTs.