Teachers’ attitude to work and students’ deviant behaviours in secondary schools in Pallisa District, Uganda
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2017-07
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Kampala International University. College of Education, Open, Distance and E-Learning
Abstract
The current study was carried out to: assess the level of the attitude of secondary school teachers in Pallisa district towards their work; to find out the magnitude of secondary schools students‟ deviant behaviours in Pallisa district of Uganda; as well as to find out the relationship between teachers‟ attitude to work and the secondary school students‟ deviant behaviours in Pallisa district of Uganda. This study employed a cross-sectional descriptive survey design, using the quantitative and qualitative approaches. The target populations of this study were 4,230 students and 286 teachers from the 14 Private secondary schools in Pallisa district and the seven public secondary schools in the district. These schools are found in the two counties, Pallisa and Agule which make up the district. A Sample size of 843 respondents was selected from 11 secondary schools whereby four were public and seven were private. All of these filled questionnaires, and in addition, 42 of the teachers (two headteachers and 40 classroom teachers), as well as 60 students were interviewed orally to get detailed data. The respondents were selected from these 11 secondary schools using the Morgan and Krejcie (1970) method of determining the sample. The findings revealed that the level of the attitude of secondary school teachers in Pallisa district towards their work was good, given the grand mean of 3.03 on all the three categorized work of teachers; the students‟ deviant behaviours were conceptualized in terms of social misbehaviour, sexual immorality, as well as school-related indiscipline. The findings revealed that the general magnitude of secondary schools students‟ deviant behaviours in Pallisa district of Uganda was low, given the grand arithmetic mean of 1.96; and there is no significant relationship between teachers‟ attitude to work and the secondary school students‟ deviant behaviours in Pallisa district of Uganda, as shown by the sig-value of 0.13. It was concluded that whereas there are many challenges in the teaching field and whereas there are many social, political, scientific and technological changes in society, secondary students in Pallisa are generally well behaved and teachers in the district love their teaching job. Students‟ low magnitude of deviant behaviours in Pallisa district can mainly be attributed to other reasons or factors, not teachers‟ attitude to work.
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A research report submitted to the College Of Education, Open, Distance And E-Learning in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Master of Education in Educational Administration And Management of Kampala International University
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Teachers’ attitude, Students’ deviant behaviours, Secondary schools, Pallisa District, Uganda