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Title:Schooling and the drought in Zimbabwe: the views and reactions of primary school senior teachers
Authors:Pattman, RobISNI
Shumba, TamukaISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research (ISSN 1013-3445)
Volume:5
Issue:2
Period:July
Pages:190-205
Language:English
Geographic terms:Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Subjects:pupils
primary education
droughts
education
schooling
teachers
Abstract:This report presents the findings of a questionnaire survey carried out among a group of senior primary school teachers who attended an in-service course at Masvingo Teachers' College (Zimbabwe) in 1992. The survey sought their views about the effects of drought on the demeanour, behaviour, and performance of pupils in their schools, and the measures, if any, which they had taken and would want central government to take to alleviate the problems their schools were experiencing as a result of drought. According to the respondents, the impact of drought on schooling was most serious in rural areas. Respondents teaching in rural areas were more likely than their urban counterparts to report drought-related behavioural changes in pupils, curricular changes, higher absentee rates, higher proportions of children coming to school on empty stomachs and travelling long distances, and measures which the school had taken to alleviate the effects of drought. The respondents were unanimous in advocating forms of government intervention, usually related to the setting up of supplementary feeding schemes. App.: Questionnaire, sum.
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