Socio-economic and cultural problems facing female Students’ performance in secondary schools: a case of schools in Temeke municipality, Tanzania.
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Date
2011
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
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.
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Female Students’, Temeke municipality, Cultural problems, Secondary schools