Administrative Challenges Faced by Primary School Head Teachers in Management of Pupils in Embakasi District, Nairobi County-Kenya.
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2013-08-15
Authors
Nyaga, Gladys Ngithi
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Abstract
The study was influenced by increased concern by the Head teachers and other
stakeholders of the increased myriad administrative challenges encountered in
Management of pupils following an enactment of Children Act 200 1, which banned
corporal punishment in all schools in 200 1 and also the provision of Free Primary
Education (FPE) in public primary schools in 2003. The study sought to establish the
following study objectives; determine the challenges public primary school head teachers
encounter in the management of pupils' welfare; assess whether there are' adequate
resources in schools to facilitate the proper learning of pupils; find out the strategies used
by head teachers to overcome the challenges of indiscipline among pupils; examine the
strategies used by head teachers to overcome challenges related to the lack of resources.
A sample of ten public primary schools from a population of forty two schools was
randomly selected for the study. The 'respondents were head teachers from the selected
(sampled) schools. The data collection was done by the use of questionnaires while data
was analyzed using descriptive statistics. From the findings, the study concluded that
majority of the head teachers had never attended any training on school administration
The head teachers faced administrative challenges in management of the pupils which
included lack of parents' cooperation in provision of pupils' requirements for learning as
parents believed that everything was catered for in the free primary education
programme, high school dropout rates, high teacher pupil ratio, high teaching load,
inadequate textbooks and other learning resources, lack of adequate classrooms and
furniture and poor sanitation. The study recommends that the government and other
stakeholders should address the bottlenecks in the implementation of school policies like
hiring of more teaching staff, building more schools which are major administrative
challenges facing head teachers in pupils management. Finally, the study recommends
that the government and other stakeholders should offer continuous training to the head
teachers on pupil management to keep them up-to qate. with skills that will assist them to
run their schools effectively.
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Department of Educational Management Policy & Curriculum Studies, 92 p. The LB 2970 .K4N93 2013
Keywords
Elementary school principals --Kenya --Nairobi County --Embakasi District, School management and organization --Kenya --Nairobi County --Embakasi District