Challenges hindering public secondary Schools in Incorporating Sports and Games into Students’ Learning Process: A Case of Bukombe District, Tanzania

Abstract

This study investigated on the challenges that hinder public secondary schools in incorporating sports and games into students’ learning processes in Bukombe District, Geita Tanzania. The study was guided by Social Learning Theory by psychologist Albert Bandura in (1977). To get the required respondents the researcher used purposive sampling to select all participants. On other hand, to obtain enough information in a study. The concrete and detailed data was acquired through non-participant observation whereby a researcher observed sports and game activities without actively participating. Interview guide was also used to collect information from District Secondary Education Officer, Heads of Schools, Teachers and Students. The qualitative information was analyzed through thematic analysis. From the field of data collection and analysis the findings revealed that, the challenges faced by public secondary schools in incorporating sports and games into the learning process as analyzed by the District Secondary Education Officer, heads of school, as well as sports and games teachers were like, lack of experts teachers on sports and games at the schools, Inadequate of sports and games facilities, poor motivation to the sports and games teachers, few time provided to engage in sports and games programme in many public secondary schools. The study further clinched that, low budget and limited resources, were the challenges faced by public secondary schools in incorporating sports and games into the learning process.Therefore the government is supposed to integrate the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) and the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports to set standards and approaches to make sure that sports and games is well practiced in different public secondary schools.