Factors Affecting the Primary School Participation of Pastoralists: A Case Study from Ethiopia
The study investigated the status of primary school participation of pastoralist children. It was conducted in Bench Maji zone of the S/N/N/P/R/G in Ethiopia. The main focus of the study was to identify the major constraints that hinders the participation of pastoral Suri children. To this end, case study method was employed. Data were gathered from 20 teachers, 16 PTA’s, 20 community elders, 5 educational experts, and 2 administrators through in-depth interview and focus group discussion. Community elders, educational experts and administrators were selected by purposive method. Teachers and Parent Teacher Association [PTA] were selected by availability sampling. The data from documentary analysis indicated that the status of pastoral Suri children participation in the primary school is extremely low. Based on findings, school related constraints, socio-economic constraints and Socio – cultural constraints were found to be the major barriers to the educational participation of pastoral Suri children. Hence, it is concluded that the participation of pastoral Suri children in the primary schools was a function of school related constraints, socio – economic and socio – cultural constraints. Depending on the result of the findings, formulation of policy and strategy to pastoral Suri children was recommended. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p1386
Pastoralists, ethnicity and the state in Ethiopia.
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School Quality and Effectiveness
One of the most robust and consistent findings in educational research is that a child’s educational attainment is greatly affected by its family background. A crucial issue for policy is whether schools have any effect on children’s attainment or whether it is all determined by family background and personality traits. If schools are differentially effective then the school attended matters for children’s educational attainment and can reinforce or counter family influences. Another motivation for research on school effectiveness is to discover the factors associated with more effective schools so as to spread these more widely. The British state schooling system is centralised, with all pupils following a National Curriculum and sitting nationally set public examinations at age 7, 11, 14, 16, 17 and 18 1 . In this system all teachers are paid using a national pay scale. Each school’s budget is largely dependent on the number of pupils it has and this grant comes from the central government. However, it is administered by the Local Education Authorities (LEA), which may set their own educational priorities (financed by local taxation), thus variations in school funding between LEAs is possible (Figure 1). Furthermore, compensatory educational funding is given to geographical areas with a higher deprivation scores 2 . Various types of school co-exist in the UK. The distinction between the public and the private sector is clear. The private system of independent schools 3 is relatively autonomous