2024 IJRSE – Volume 13 Issue 8
Available Online: 15 August 2024
Author/s:
N’hale, Ngika
The Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania (ngikanhale2@gmail.com)
Kairembo, Romwald*
The Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania (romwald.kairembo@gmail.com)
Abstract:
Mainly, this study aimed to explore researchers’ experiential perceptions about clandestine dominant socio-economic amplifiers contributing to lower equal girls’ opportunity to access Tanzania lower secondary school education in terms of rising drop out behavior and proposals to control it within Itilima district council. Specifically, one of its objectives had triple tasks: to determine social perpetuators rarely reported contributing girl students not to complete their compulsory four-year cycle in lower secondary schools in Itilima district council. Then, to determine rarely reported cultural perpetuators on the same. Finally, to obtain research participants’ way forward proposals to lower the dropout behavior rise. The qualitative approach and exploratory research design were used. It involved 40 research participants. It used multiple methods including: primary documents and semi-structured interviews along with interviews, documentary guides, and non-parametric Likert scale instruments to collect data. Sorting, coding categorizing, and thermalizing analyzed data. Descriptive analysis analyzed nominal and ordinal data like percents and frequencies implying categorical labels, were tabulated and constantly compared. Triangulation of multiple methods, techniques for data collection ensured trustworthiness and dependability of findings. The findings revealed common reported pertuators: pregnancy, marriage and peer groups. However, low parents’ education level and family divorce are rarely reported perpetuators for girls’ dropout trend in the area. The findings suggested a conclusion that the dropout behavior deters girl student’s noble goal of accessing secondary education. It was recommended that the ministry of education should involve educational stakeholders to educate parents on the importance of girls’ education.
Keywords: dropout, enrolment, retention, completion, a girl student
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2024.24071
Cite this article:
N’hale, N., & Kairembo, R. (2024). Exploring concealed socio-economic perpetuators for girl students’ drop out rising in Tanzania secondary schools within Simiyu region. International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 13(8), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2024.24071
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