- Title
- Factors Influencing Enrolment In Rural Primary Schools In One Circuit, Port St. Johns Cmc, Or Tambo Coastal Education District
- Creator
- Lungu, Simlindile Humphrey
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing enrolment in rural primary schools in one Circuit in Port St. Johns CMC in OR Tambo Coastal Education District. The literature review looked into each of the following aspects of factors influencing enrolment in rural primary schools: challenges resulting in policy issues, the challenge of infrastructure, other factors that influence enrolment in rural school and strategies to overcome enrolment challenges in rural schools. The study was qualitative in nature and employed case study research design. Convenient sampling was used to select four rural primary schools in one Circuit in Port St. Johns Circuit Management Centre (CMC) in OR Tambo Education District. The principal, one (1) educator, one (1) parent and one (1) learner were purposively selected from each school and this made a total of sixteen (16) participants. Face-to-face individual interviews were conducted to gather data about the views and opinions of the participants. Data were analysed using the interpretational analytical strategies. Themes were drawn from the responses of the participants. The major findings were:When the number of learners decreases, the number of educators is also reduced proportionately as a results educators have to take more subjects.There was a negative effect of the relocation of parents, there was poor quality of teaching and learning, the effect of instability crippled normal functioning of the school, there was poor school management as the schools were hit by having no principals due to internal disputes, there were disruptions of teaching and learning due to instability in rural primary schools. The main recommendations are: Rural primary schools should gradually improve the quality of teaching and learning provisioning and arrest the decline in enrolment;At least each class should have an educator, so that discipline can be maintained in all classes; Given the highly technical nature of the process involved in determining the PPN of schools, the DBE, the Provincial Education Departments as well as educator unions should as a matter of priority engage in a massive campaign to capacitate principals on the application of the PPN and its related formula; An audit into the schools' physical infrastructure be conducted to redress the meaningful pedagogical environment of teaching and learning.
- Date
- 2020
- Subject
- Collaboration, school culture, school merger, rationalisation, educator attrition, enrolment, rural, educators, learners.
- Type
- Masters, Master of Education (M. Ed)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/6244
- Identifier
- vital:45343
- Format
- Contributor
- Mantlana, C.D
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University
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