Slum Life and Learners' At Risk of School Failure: A Case Of Umoja Zone, Embakasi Division In Kenya
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Date
2010-12
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Kampala International University, bachelors degree of education
Abstract
This study set out to investigate on slum life and learners' at risk of
school failure. A case of Umoja zone, Embakasi division in Kenya. The
following objectives guided the study; to establish the prevalence of
learners who are at risk of school failure in Kwanjega slum; to identify
the dominant factors in the slum responsible for putting learners at risk
of school failure; to find out how these learners have been affected by
risk factors and to assess the way teachers have interviewed for these
learners who are at risk. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used
and respondents were picked at random.
Findings revealed that a number of learners who had the characteristics
that put them at risk of school failure although some were low. Research
revealed that among the pupils each teacher was teaching, a high
number of children were being exposed to drugs and substance abuse.
Research has indicated that many pupils in school were coming from
poor families, whose parents were unemployed and did not have high
educational attainments. Death of parents was also established to be
another way in which pupils are put at risk of school failure. With no one
to provide for the children's basic needs and security as well as social
needs. Recommendations were also made.
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A Research Report Submitted To Faculty of Education in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor's Degree of Kampala International University
Keywords
Slum Life, Learners, Umoja Zone, Embakasi Division