ABSTRACT This study assessed the guidance and counselling services in senior secondary schools in Ohangwena region with the view to determine the teacher counsellors’ views on the factors impacting the implementation of guidance and counselling services. Literature shows that guidance and counselling plays a vital role in preventing educational, emotional, social, personal and other problems among learners. It was therefore important to the researcher to determine teacher counsellors’ vie...
ABSTRACT This qualitative research study was done to establish the quality of interaction that took place between Deaf learners and hearing learners in mainstream schools in Oshana and Khomas regions. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews and observations, with the help of video camera recordings to capture the data. Five Deaf learners, ten teachers teaching in the classroom were Deaf learners are mainstreamed and 30 hearing learners were interviewed separately. The resear...
ABSTRACT This study intended to address the contribution of teaching practice on teacher professional competence. The introduction of competence-based curriculum at all levels in education system in Tanzania brought challenges to teachers who are the major implementers of the new curriculum. Therefore the base of this study was on the change of curriculum from teacher-centered to learner-centered in education systems. Social constructivism theory developed by Vygotsky was used as theoretical ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the secondary school teachers’ perceptions towards school inspection in Zanzibar focusing on Mjini District of Unguja as a case study. The Scientific Management and Human Relation Theories guided the thinking of the study. The study was qualitative in nature with descriptive research design. The study involved seven secondary schools situated in Mjini District, Zanzibar. A total number of 71 respondents were involved. Data collection methods included the use...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to find out the perceptions of teachers and students on the use of English as the MoI in community secondary schools. The study employed a mixed method approach in data collection. The data were collected by using an interview, questionnaire and focus group discussion (FGD) from fives (5) sampled community secondary schools in Bukombe District. A total of 110 participants was involved in data collection whereby five (5) heads of schools and five (5)...
ABSTRACT The family context for child development has for ages remained one of the most important contributors to the quality of child development where marital stability stays at the core of this context. The study assessed effectiveness of premarital education towards marital stability and parenting in Tanzania based on experiences from the Sandawe community in Dodoma. It had five objectives which were: i) To ascertain premarital education practices adopted towards marital stability in the ...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of novice teachers in their first year of teaching after the initial training in schools in Ompundja Circuit (OC), Oshana Educational Region (OER) of Namibia. Although there is available literature to support the link between novice teachers’ preparation in universities and colleges, and their effectiveness, there is dearth of literature that particularly focused on the Oshana Educational Region. It appears that there ha...
Abstract This article proposes strategies for designing and evaluating curriculum materials for enhancing English language grammatical competence among Form One learners in Tanzanian secondary schools. Using quasi-experimental and phenomenological designs, the authors developed an exemplary Learner Centered Instructional Grammar Material (LCIGM) focusing on Form One learners. Materials design approach and Constructivism Theory of learning guided the exercise. The data for the study were colle...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to make a critical and in-depth analysis of the cultural identity and the socio-cultural statements of transitional and post-independent indigenous Namibian visual art. It aims to investigate how transitional and post-independent indigenous Namibian visual art is different from visual art developed during the colonial period, by focusing on issues of cultural identity and socio-political statements. For this purpose, three indigenous Namibian visual arti...
ABSTRACT The study is based on the anthroponomastics approach and investigated the significance of Oshiwambo combat names for the People Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) freedom fighters during the armed liberation struggle for Namibia’s independence. There is no comprehensive study that focused on the origin and significance of Oshiwambo combat names, hence, this study was conducted to investigate the significance, origin and meanings of Oshiwambo combat names for the former PLAN combatan...
BSTRACT This study investigates the literary portrayal of children as participants of the liberation struggle as illustrated in Ellen Namhila’s The Price of Freedom and Lydia Shaketange’sWalking the Boeing 707. The focus of the study was to investigate how the two Namibian autobiographical texts represent children in the liberation struggle. It examines whether children are portrayed as agents in the liberation struggle or simply objects of pity and victims in the exilic environment. The ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the roles of school boards in managing teachers discipline problems in secondary schools, where Rorya District was taken as a case study. The study was guided by McGregor Theory X and Y. The study adopted across sectional survey design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain five (5) schools and fifty six (56) respondents respectively. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods by the use ...
ABSTRACT This study reports on the material that were designed for enhancing students‟ attitude towards Mathematics through learner centered approach in Tanzania secondary schools. The main purpose was to support the implementation of Competence Based Curriculum in Form Two Mathematics syllabus. Constructivismwas usedto guide the design of instructional learning activities. The study concerted and adapteda quasiexperiment and phenomenology designs using an intervention and control schools. ...
ABSTRACT An overview of learners with special educational needs both internationally and nationally has been discussed. Initially, learners with special educational needs were catered for in special institutions. This situation seemed to discriminate against learners with special educational needs. With the call for human rights, there emerged the move toward inclusive education, which is based on a social justice paradigm of equal educational opportunities for all learners within the same cl...
ABSTRACT Many developing countries recognised the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education for teaching and learning. In Namibia ICT use in the classroom remains limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Namibian Life Science teachers’ use of ICT in their classrooms to promote collaborative and creative teaching. Activity theory was used as a lens to interprete Life Science teachers’ use of ICT. Activity theory promotes technological creati...