Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that are affecting implementation of cocurricular
education
in
Adiarqay
and Zarima
secondary
schools
of
Adiarqay woreda, North
Gondar.
In
order
to achieve
this
objective,
descriptive
research
was
used.
Primary
data
from
the
research
participants
including students,
principals,
counsellors,
teachers
and a
supervisor
were
used.
Both
Adiarqay
and
Zarima
secondary
schools
were
taken
and included
in
the
study using comprehensive
sampling
technique.
Besides,
the principals,
supervisor,
counsellors
and
club
coordinators
of
both
schools
accounted
for
25
(2
principals,
1
supervisor,
2 counselors,
and 20 club
coordinator
teachers)
were
included
using
comprehensive
sampling
technique.
Moreover,
students
were
312
also
proportionally
selected
from
both
schools
and
included
in the
study.
Data
to the
study were
collected
using
questionnaires
from
the
students, interview
from
the
principals and a supervisor
as well
as
focus
group discussion
from
club
coordinators.
In
this study,
both quantitative
and
qualitative
analysis techniques
were
used.
The
quantitative
data were
analyzed
using
mean
score
and standard
deviation.
The
qualitative
data
were
analyzed
qualitatively
using thematic
analysis
techniques
in accordance
with
the specific
objectives
of
the study.
The
results
indicated
that the
practices
of
co-curricular
education
in
the
selected
secondary
schools
were
not
performed
well.
Concerning
this,
there
were
also factors
identified
in the
study
related
to
the
schools’
principals,
teachers,
students
and
the
school
that
constrained
the
practices
of
cocurricular
education.
In
all,
the results
of
the
current
study
indicated
the
low
status
and
performance
of
co-curricular
education
in
Adiarqay
and Zarima
secondary
schools.
Generally,
co-curricular
education
has
been
bottlenecked
in practice
in the
selected
schools;
and
the various
students’
needs
of
co-curricular
education
were
left without
being responded
due
to factors
that
could
be traced
to the
principals,
teachers,
the
students and
the schools.
It
is
generally
concluded
that
co-curricular
education
was
inadequate.
Thus,
the
school
leaders,
the
teachers/coordinators
being
professional,
the schools’
teachers
and the
education
office
of the
respective
woreda
and the educational
professionals
and experts
serving
in
the office
are all
recommended
to consider
the problem
and to recognize
it
as one
major
part
of their
task
to
make
a difference
