School-based managerial challenges of universal primary education in selected primary schools of Kabale Municipal Town, Uganda

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2007-09
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Kampala International University , College of Education, Open & Distance Learning
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The purpose of this study was to establish the school-based managerial challenges caused by excessive pupil enrollments to the control of the quality of education and to the motivation of teachers and pupils to respectively achieve the desired teaching and learning performance in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools in Kabale Municipal Town. This was prompted by the observation that although all UPE schools witnessed excessive pupil enrolments, not much was known about the challenges that such enrolments posed to school managers. The study was conducted as cross sectional survey. Its objectives were to establish the managerial challenges that excessive enrolments caused to the (1) control of educational quality; (2) motivation of teachers to achieve desired teaching performance; and (3) motivation of pupils to achieve the desired learning performance. Data were collected using questionnaires administered to purposively selected headteachers and to teachers and pupils selected using convenience sampling. Data were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis with the aid of Excel and the descriptive, Chi Square and ANOVA methods of SPSS program. Results indicate that the challenges caused by excessive pupil enrolment to the motivation of teachers included: : a leadership vacuum in the administrative relationship between headteachers and teachers; poor parent and government facilitation of the environment that supports headteachers to motivate teachers and inadequacy of the teachers needed to achieve the standard teacher-pupils ratios in UPE schools. The challenges caused to the motivation of pupils were: poor facilitation of pupils’ learning environment, failure to feed pupils when they are at school, inability to discipline pupils and shape their behavior as desired, and failure to do what pupils expect in order to feel adequately motivated to learn as desired. The challenges caused to the control of educational quality were: failure to maintain the desired learning climate in the oversqueezed yet poorly equipped classrooms; poor quality ofteaching resulting from inadequate and inadequately qualified and facilitated teachers; and overstretched supervision of teachers and pupils. The study therefore concludes by underscoring the need to address these challenges through government adequately facilitating the administrative environment that supports school managers to motivate teachers and pupils and control the quality of education in UPE schools. Headteachers should also effectively improve their supervision of teachers and pupils. Further research is also recommended into all the challenges of UPE right from the national to municipal levels.
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A thesis submitted to the school of postgraduate studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a master of arts in educational administration and management of Kampala International University
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School-based managerial challenges, Universal Primary Education, Uganda
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