Abstract
Education is an activity in collaboration. Without community participation, education cannot achieve its goals and without education society cannot think of development. A plethora of research exists on community participation in education and its outcomes. However, meager studies have been carried out to examine the relationship between community participation and quality of education. Although quality of education cannot be determined by one or two indicators. Research has already discovered many indicators of quality of education. But this study specifically investigated into three essential indicators which are contextually relevant to a developing country. The three main indicators investigated in relation with community participation were access, retention and attendance. The main aim of this study was to find out whether or not community participation in education reduces the issues of access, retention and attendance at secondary school level. To collect data, the study surveyed 200 (female) and 300 (males) total N=500 government secondary schools teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Data were collected, collated and statistically computed using Pearson Correlation and ANOVA to determine a correlation between the independent variable (community participation in education) and the three indicators of quality of education such as access, retention and attendance as dependent variables. Results of the study indicated a significantly positive correlation between community participation and all the three indicators of quality of education. The study proposes community participation in education as the high positive predictor of access to education, retention and attendance.
Highlights
Findings and Discussion: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of community participation in education on quality education and its three indicators such as access, retention and attendance
The study further discovered that a significantly positive correlation between community participation in education and retention. This finding is closely related to the earlier finding (Dash, 2004) that retention results out of community participation in education, because clear communication between school and community facilitates the process of education of the child
The study found that community participation in education is significantly correlated with attendance
Summary
Studies have further enumerated that retention and attendance in education can be enhanced by proper monitoring and follow up on absence For this purpose some efforts could be useful such as child-to-child strategies as well as home visits by the schoolteachers, head teachers, and other community member (Westheimer, 1998; Adam, 2005). Community participation in education greatly improves quality, relevancy, effectiveness and sustainability of all the educational initiatives that are undertaken to meet the needs of the communities. This can be done through transferring the funds to school boards and engaging the school community based management (Uemura, 1999; Romi, 2000)
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