Limiting Forces to Successful Implementation of Adult Education and its Intended Outcomes in Morogoro Community in Tanzania

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Pdagogik - Erwachsenenbildung, University of Dodoma (College of Education), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ABSTRACT
The major purpose of this research article was to determine limiting forces/factors to successful implementation of adult education and its intended outcomes. The study was inspired by the belief that through its findings useful data can be generated for guiding improvements of adult education in the community. The specific objectives of the study were to: assess adult educators' perceptions on the intended outcome of the adult education programmes, determine the limiting factors to successful implementation of adult education campaigns for community development in Morogoro Region. The research involved a cross-sectional survey design and data were drawn from 80 adult educators by means of self developed questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was performed to determine frequencies, percentages and mean and rank of the items studied. Data from focused group discussion were manually analysed. The findings show that there are some forces or factors in Morogoro which hinders implementation of adult education and also, they don't believe in the intended outcomes of adult education as being trans formative in terms of development. In addition generally few of the educators were found to be not sure of adult education's relevance. These findings imply that more efforts should be made to re-educate adults.

Key words: Limiting forces/factors, adult education, adult, outcomes, community, implementation