Management of Inclusive Education in Public Primary Schools in Kilosa District, Morogoro Region in Tanzania.

Shayo, Remwald Alfred (2022) Management of Inclusive Education in Public Primary Schools in Kilosa District, Morogoro Region in Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study was on the management of inclusive education in public primary schools in Kilosa district council. The specific focus was on the role of head teachers in ensuring quality implementation of inclusive education; the modalities they use to involve stakeholders to support inclusive education; and the challenges facing them in coordinating stakeholders to support implementation of inclusive education in primary schools in Kilosa district. A total of 60 respondents represented by 30 heads of schools and 30 class teachers from 30 sampled public primary schools were purposively sampled and subjected to open interview with 20 questions. The data were analyzed, discussed and presented qualitatively. Results revealed that, the role of head teachers in inclusive education was to ensure the availability of human and material resources. Further, the results revealed that, the modalities used to involve stakeholders to support inclusive education include parents and community meetings as well as fundraising during schools’ ceremonies such as graduations. The study revealed that, the key challenges facing primary school management in implementing inclusive education lack of political will from the central government to the local and individuals to support inclusive education. This situation has led to schools facing acute shortage of teaching and learning materials for special needs pupils, unfriendly schools’ infrastructure to pupils with disabilities and high rate of school dropout and poor performance among the pupils with disabilities. The study recommends that, the government should make an intentional effort to support inclusive education. This wills tricle down to the local government and to individual people including parents of children with special needs. Further, it is recommended that collective effort should be done to raise awareness on the importance of education to children with disabilities and other marginalized children for the national development. For further studies, it recommended the same study to be done in public secondary schools. Key words: Roles, Stakeholders, Management, Education, Head teacher, disabilities

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