Strategies used to enhance safe school environment in secondary schools in Awendo district, Migori county, Kenya
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Date
2014-10-08
Authors
Aoko, Mildred Agutu
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
A comprehensive school safety is fundamental to students' school success and
achievement. School administrators are therefore advised to set up programmes and
practices that promote effective and safe learning environment. Various unsafe situations
in schools have been reported in our local media, for example fire outbreaks, violence in
schools, poor living conditions, unsafe physical infrastructure, bullying among others. It is
against this background that the study seeks to establish strategies schools should use in
ensuring the safety of students in public secondary schools with particular reference to
Awendo District in Migori County. The purpose of this study is therefore to determine
how schools are prepared in ensuring the safety of the students, considering the safety as
stipulated by the Ministry of Education. The objectives of the study are to identify
indicators of safe school environment, determine factors leading to unsafe school
environment and to establish strategies for promoting safe school environment with
particular reference to secondary schools in Awendo District. A descriptive survey design
will be used to conduct this study. The target population will constitute 22 public
secondary schools, 360 Teachers, 22 Principals and 6,852 students Awendo District. The
sample of the respondents will be 48 Teachers, 8 Principals and 160 students. Data will
be collected using questionnaires and observation schedules and presented in simple
tables. A pilot study will be conducted in one of the secondary schools which will not be
included in the final study sample. Data will be analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively.
Qualitative analysis will use descriptive technique and data narrations and quantitative
analysis will use SPSS, statistical technique, graphical and measuring of numerical values
to organize data