Socio - Institutional Factors Influencing Secondary Students’ Academic Achievements In Banda And Buyinja Sub-counties In Namayingo District

ABSTRACT ‘he term education has been defined in different ways by different scholars for instance Lccordrng to: .JJ Rousseau, education is the process of acquisition of knowledge, skills, beliefs, ralues and habits. According to MJ Langeveld, education is every interaction that occurs etween adults with children. According to Dr. John Dewey, education is a process of xperience. According to Wikipedia, education is a conscious and deliberate effort to create an ~tmosphere of learning and the learning process so that learners are actively developing the otential for them to have the spiritual strength of religious, self-control, personality, ntelligence, noble character and the skills needed by themselves and the society. According to rhomas and Marshall (1977), education is a social process through which one achieves social ~ompetence and individual growth, carried out in a selected, controlled setting which can be nstitutionalized as school, college or university. Through the term education has different lefinitions according to different scholars, they all agree that education involves interactions etween or among different persons, experience and brings over changes in one’s life and entire ociety. Today, every society upholds education where children and adults receive education tither formally, informally or none formally. The quality of education attained by learners is letermined by socio- institutional factors. By the words socio and institution factors, we mean he forces in society and areas where individuals attain education from. The word society is a ;roup of people with a common territory, interaction and culture. According to John Mbiti, the ~ontent of society defines humanity. All that goes to the making of man is incorporated in the :omplex unity of the society, outside of which all others are strangers and inferior if not enemies. )utsiders are considered enemies because their motives are likely to be aliens to the local ;ociety’s interest. He further says that it is not enough to be a human being unless one shares the ~ense of society. An education institution refers to an administrative unit with a principal or other iead, which has teachers and other personnels in its service, which is liable to keep books and ~ompile other documentations, in which students are registered, whose activities are regulated by ~ legal act or decree which follows a national curriculum and which is financed and controlled by ipublic authority. An educational institution does not only refer to a school building but also the eachers, scholastic materials like books, journals, and non-teaching staff