Civil War Experience And Effectiveness Of Teaching Staff In Secondary Schools In Oyam District, Northern Uganda, 2007 – 2016.
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2022-03
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Kampala International University, College of Education and Management
Abstract
The study aimed at assessing the effects of civil war experiences (2006-2016) on effectiveness of teaching staff in secondary schools in Oyam district in northern Uganda. The study was guided by the following research objectives; to examine the effect of civil war experiences in terms of psychological, socio-economic and Environmental effects, to assess the effectiveness of teaching staff in terms of lesson delivery, absenteeism and punctuality at school, and to examine the relationship between the effects of civil wars experiences and staff effectiveness in secondary school in Oyam district. The study was underpinned by the use of descriptive and correlation design this was to project and relate the findings to other entities. In order to get valid data on the research, all respondents in the nine secondary schools were used to get the data. In order to adequately address the research objectives, primary and secondary data was used to relate the information. The researcher used a closed questionnaire as a tool to collect data from the respondents. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences and Regression Analysis was used to test the relationship between the study variables. The study finding on the effect of civil war experiences in terms of psychological, socio-economic and Environmental effects was very high in the way that civil wars experiences left teachers with no morale to teach as most schools up-to-date are not yet rehabilitated, and the effectiveness of teaching staff was very low as the willingness to go to school to teach was low hence high rate of teachers absenteeism, poor lesson delivery and lack of punctuality attributed to effects of civil war. The study concluded that much as the war ended in Oyam district, schools are still facing the problem to revamp the system since most of schools closed during the war and took time to re-establish themselves again, the effectiveness of teaching staff was also poor as most schools still face the problems of high rate of absenteeism, lack of lesson plan and punctuality is still problematic and the study concluded that civil war experiences had a strong connectivity to staff ineffectiveness in Oyam district as up to now few teachers have managed to cop up with the environment, Arising from the findings and conclusion, the researcher recommended that stronger support from government, NGOs and politicians is needed to improve the effectiveness of teaching staff in war torn areas through providing them with additional financial packages backed up providing security personnel’s to each school, more attention is needed from Government and Non-Governmental Organization towards the maintenance of school facilities and provide staff quarters for teachers and there is need for joint efforts from religious leaders, government, education department, security operatives, and other stakeholders to come up together and have a peaceful dialogue” on how to end/address the impact of civil war since a lot was destroyed, teachers resigned from teaching, children were abducted and others totally left school during and after the war, less has been done to help these schools which were destroyed during the way and government has not properly re-staffed these schools for effective teaching programs in Oyam district which calls for special attention to end the problem.
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A Thesis Submitted To the College Of Education, Open, Distance and E-Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for The Award of the Degree of Master of Education In Educational Administration and Management Of Kampala International University.
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Civil War, Teaching Staff, Secondary Schools, Northern Uganda,