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Empowerment and effectiveness of school boards in managing secondary schools in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Maeda, Christina M.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-16T06:55:33Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-16T06:55:33Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Maeda, C. M. (2021). Empowerment and effectiveness of school boards in managing secondary schools in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences, 3(1), 188-199. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2714-2051
dc.identifier.issn 0856-9681
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/437
dc.description The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at: http//www.mocu.ac.tz en_US
dc.description.abstract The article reports on a qualitative study on empowerment and effectiveness of school boards as community representatives in managing schools where the main objective was to examine the access of school boards on financial and human resources of the schools managed together with finding out the level of autonomy possessed by board members in influencing the schools’ decisions. Primary data were collected from 34 respondents and secondary data reviewed from materials on empowerment and education policy of Tanzania. It was found that, school boards have been provided with the opportunity to manage school affairs and so far, they have helped the schools to excel in managing student discipline and community mobilization in improving school infrastructure. Level of empowerment and effectiveness remains questionable due to number of challenges including low resource capability, lack of managerial skills and low autonomy levels. It is recommended that; review of school boards powers is needed to ensure the use of decentralised framework to influence matters at school level. There is a need to improve skills and capacities of Board members to achieve higher effectiveness. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences (EAJ-SAS) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 3;No. 1
dc.subject Community en_US
dc.subject Empowerment en_US
dc.subject School en_US
dc.subject Management en_US
dc.subject Boards en_US
dc.title Empowerment and effectiveness of school boards in managing secondary schools in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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