Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate community participation in Basic School
development at Sekyere Central District of Ashanti Region of Ghana. The objectives of
the study were to access areas community leaders are involved in basic schools
development, identify factors that impedes community participation in basic schools
development and to find out measures to improve community participation in basic
school development at Sekyere Central District. Descriptive research design using the
quantitative approach was adopted for the study. The target population for the study was
all School Management Committee executives, Parent Teacher Association executives at
Beposo Circuit of the Sekyere Central District. The accessible population was 122
comprising 68 School Management Committee executives and 54 Parent Teacher
Associations executives Purposive sampling technique was used to select all the 122
community leaders for the study. Questionnaire was used to collect data for the study.
The reliability test yielded cronbach alpha of 0.82. The data were analysed using
descriptive statistics, such as, frequencies and percentages. The study found that
community leaders were involved in promoting access to education and repairing school
facilities. Political interference and loss of interest in community participation impeded
community participation. Scheduling of meetings at convenient times, clear roles and
responsibilities of local community were measures to improve community participation
development of basic schools. It is recommended that the Sekyere Central District
Directorate of education should entreat heads of basic schools to adopt the measures that
could help to improve community participation in the development of basic schools.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Educational Leadership, Faculty of Education
and Communication Sciences, submitted to the School of Graduate Studies,
University of Education, Winneba, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for
award of the Master of Arts (Educational Leadership) degree
DECEMBER, 2020