The challenges Tanzanian schools face when tackling disruption to learning for vulnerable pupils during the cost-of-living crisis.
Stuart Busby: Exeter University
Abstract
This article will draw on research literature, my personal observations, and interviews with Primary Headteachers, to understand how schools in Tanzania are supporting child
development during the disruption to learning caused by the cost-of-living crisis. Some
headteachers have told me that their training had not prepared them to equip their staff with the skills required to address the daily challenges caused by the high levels of poverty within their local communities. My experience with these professionals led me to the view that there was a problem with the leadership training courses they had undertaken as the programme did not seem to be preparing them well. My chapter will strive to understand whether Tanzanian education policy has provided a successful response to the challenges caused by increasing levels of poverty. My initial research suggests that, despite the positive reception of the Tanzanian government’s education policies, schools’ responses to the country’s cost-of-living crisis are variable and still predominately determined by their local context and factors such as the quality of individual leaders.
Keywords: Tanzania, school, leadership, communities, resilience
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