Effects of teachers' unethical conduct on primary pupils' academic performance in Temeke municipal council, Tanzania
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2010-05
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A research report submitted to the College of Education Open and Distance Learning in partial fulfillment for the award of a Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Education, Kampala International University
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This study was conducted in TEMEKE municipal council, Dar-es-salaam Tanzania. The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of teacher unethical conduct on primary pupils' academic performance. . A total number of 259 respondents were involved as follows; Pupils Officers Teachers Male 91 6 11 female 109 11 31 total 200 17 42 Data was collected using questionnaires and oral interviews. The forms of ethical conduct included teachers, pupils sexual relationships, teachers' selling things like breads, sweets in classrooms, teachers making pupils especially girls as their cook by commanding them to cook for them tea or sending them for short errands during school hours. The effect of such an ethical conduct included; poor performance in Summative and formative tests, pregnancy in early age, poor academic evaluation and bad relationship between the teacher and the pupils. It was thus recommended that the TSD department of teacher should enforce the law and punish the culprits severely so as to serve reformative and deterrent purposes; to teachers' pupils' relationships and ethical conducts of teachers.
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A research report submitted to the College of Education Open and Distance Learning in partial fulfillment for the award of a Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Education, Kampala International University
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teachers, unethical conduct, primary pupils', Tanzania