Abstract The study focuses on the different approaches used by indigenous practitioners, Johane Masowe church and AFM in the management and treatment of nhova in Zvishavane. It is a comparative study that seeks to impact and interrogate the convergences and divergences among the Christian churches and indigenous practitioners. The study was guided by Afrocentricity particularly Karenga (1993)‟s ideas on multiculturalism. Utilising interviews questionnaires and focus group discussions, the s...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to assess the contribution of Teachers‟ Resource Centers in improving teaching and learning in primary schools in Shinyanga rural district. The study employed qualitative research approach with descriptive research design Data collection methods involved the use of questionnaires, interviews and researcher‟s personal observation of the TRCs in the area of study. Qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis The findings from the study indicated that TRC...
ABSTRACT This study examined the factors for job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers in Tanzania using Kongwa District as a case study area. The researcher used purposive sampling strategy to get eleven schools involved in the study as well as convenience sampling strategy to get the required sample. Participants were 180 public secondary schools teachers. Mixed methods of data collection were employed. The data for the study were analysed using multiple statistical procedure...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the role of career guidance and counselling services in enhancing employability skills among students in higher learning institutions in Tanzania based on experience from The University of Dodoma (UDOM) and St. Johns‟ University of Tanzania (SJUT). It employed a descriptive research design using qualitative and some aspects of quantitative research approach. A total of 123 respondents including lecturers, wardens and students from UDOM-CoED and SJUT were involv...
ABSTRACT The study examined truancy to illuminate the aspects of its causes, educational effects to students, and intervention strategies in four selected government secondary schools in Tanga City. The study sought to answer three research questions that aimed at identifying causes of truancy, educational effects of truancy to the students, and intervention strategies practised in the four selected government secondary schools. 136 participants were involved in the study. These included eig...
ABSTRACT This study investigates teaching and learning methods that enhance reading among pre-primary children in Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were: to identify the common teaching and learning methods used by teachers to enhance reading skills among pre-primary children, to explore when teachers assess the ability of pupils and help them and to examine the challenges encountered by preprimary teachers in teaching reading skills. The study was conducted in Chamwino Distric...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship that exists between some selected psychosocial variables and intention to abstain from sex among secondary school adolescents in Dodoma region, Tanzania. Particularly, the study investigated the likely relationship that might exist between intention to abstain from sex among adolescent secondary school students and the four psychosocial variables (sexual education knowledge, perceived attitudes, perceived social norms and...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to find out factors influencing students‟ drop out in higher learning institutions and its emanating consequences. It employed a cross-sectional research design, in which mixed research approaches were employed. A sample of 91 respondents which comprised 6 heads of departments, 2 academic staff, 2 deputy deans of students, 75 continuing students, and 6 students who dropped out from studies. The study had three objectives: first to find out the factors influencing...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to assess stress factors and coping strategies among primary school adolescents in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. Both purposive and stratified simple randomly sampling procedures were used. An overall number of 108 respondents made up of 18 primary school teachers and 90 primary school adolescents were involved in this study. Data were gathered through, interview, questionnaires and documentar...
ABSTRACT Reading and writing is critical to a child’s success in school and later in life because, it is one of the predictors to ascertain whether a child will function competently in school and actively engage and contribute in increasingly literate society. Despite many government initiatives, teachers have been reported to perform unsatisfactorily in classroom practices in reading and writing. The situation has led to 64% and 54% of standard 2 and 3 pupils unable to read and write as i...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the perceived adherence to expected social manners and academic performances among students in selected secondary schools. This study was guided by three research objectives namely; to investigate particular expected social manners among students, to examine the extents to which students adhere to expected social manners in different situations at schools also to explore the extent to which students‟ adhere to expected social manners influence academic perf...
ABSTRACT The study focussed on the understanding of head of schools’ experiences on the influences of parental involvement on students’ academic performance in community secondary schools in Namtumbo District. The study used qualitative research approach under the phenomenology study design. Data was collected using in-depth interviews from five head of schools in five selected community secondary schools. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, verbatim and analysed systematically. Basin...
ABSTRACT This study mainly sought to assess teachers’ working conditions and their job satisfaction in community secondary schools in Nachingwea district, Tanzania. It employed a descriptive survey design, dominated by qualitative research approach and supplemented by some elements of quantitative research approach. The study was guided by Herzberg’s Motivation Hygiene Theory, and Adam’s Equity Theory. It was conducted in 4 community secondary schools in which 4 school heads were purpo...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the impact of the school head's instructional supervision practices on quality teaching of ICT in public schools in Tanzania the case of selected schools in Dodoma city. The specific objectives were (i)to identify the head of schools’ instructional supervision practices used in improving ICT teaching; (ii) to examine teachers’ perceptions on instructional supervision; (iii) to assess the impact of instructional supervision practice on teaching effec...
ABSTRACT This study investigated factors hindering the development of English language speaking skills among secondary school students in Tanzania. The study employed phenomenological design which included qualitative approaches in data generation. A total of thirty eight (38) participants were involved in the study whereby six (6) of them were secondary school English language teachers and the rest thirty two (32) were secondary school students from four public secondary schools. Participan...