Coping with inadequacy
Understanding the effects of central teacher recruitment in six ward
secondary schools in Tanzania
Wilhelm L. Mafuru
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies
collection 32, 2011. Decentralization by devolution is the means to
transfer the responsibilities for service provision to the grassroots levels
in Tanzania. The aim of this policy is to deal with the stagnation in the
development of, among other things, secondary education. Despite this
policy, Tanzania still provides a strong top-down influence on education.
This study is about the effects of the central influence on the recruitment
of teachers in secondary education. For this research, six ward secondary
schools were visited. The dissertation reveals that the centralized teacher
recruitment within the initiative to decentralize secondary education has
failed to achieve its claimed objective of redressing the inequalities in
the deployment of teachers in the country. As a result, the schools have
structured their internal operations in order that they cope with
inadequacy. The dissertation recommends therefore that the actual needs of
schools in terms of the types of teachers required should be given
consideration when teachers are posted in schools.
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