Relationship between School Administrations and Secondary School Students’ Protests in Ilala Municipal Council in Dar es Salaam Tanzania

This study sought to investigate the relationship between School Administrations and Students’ Protests in Ilala Municipal Council in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A descriptive research design was employed in the study. For the purpose of this study, four objectives were targeted including examining the perception of school stakeholders on the frequency, magnitude and effects of secondary school students protest in schools; investigating causal factors of secondary schools students’ protests; investigating the relationship between the school administration and secondary schools students´ protests and identifying strategies that can be used to overcome the problem. The study found out that, there is a great relationship between school administration and students protests. In this aspect, it was found out that, students protests occurs when there is poor administrative response to students problems and poor classroom teaching and learning. On the basis of the study findings the following strategies were identified to overcome the problem, strengthening in-service courses on conflict management, increasing school budget so as to enable an effective running of school activities, having regular meeting with school stakeholders and involving student’s representative council. Finally the researcher recommends that heads of schools need to be committed to their respective responsibilities and they should have timely intervention to students problems so as to avoid unnecessary students’ protests; the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training should allocate sufficient fund for public secondary schools to enable school administrators to run school smoothly and the government should strengthen students counseling services in all secondary school in the country in order to maintain the students discipline.

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

masters

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

The Open University of Tanzania

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Mturi , K. Safi

• 370 Education

Language dc:language

en