Abstract
Empowerment of parents and community members improves accountability and monitoring of
schools. Nevertheless, accountability relationships need to be accurately defined for
decentralization to improve schools’ performance. This study, therefore, aims to explore
educationists’ and Parents Teachers Council (PTC) members’ perceptions of local accountability
and monitoring of elementary schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A semi-structured
interview of two provincial and five district educational administrators, five school principals, and
six PTC members inform this phenomenological study. Participants’ responses were coded to
identify emerging themes and patterns. The analysis reveals that PTC can become a part of the
accountability and monitoring system of the public schools through empowering PTCs, awareness
of the community, sharing information with PTC members and its community, and trusting the
potentials of the community. This study recommends that principals and parents should be
empowered and accountability procedures should be devised for an effective local accountability
and monitoring of the public schools.
Nasrullah, Sham Haidar, Kamal Ahmed Soomro. (2019) Decentralization, Effective Accountability, and Monitoring of Public Schools in Pakistan: Community Awareness and Reliance Indispensable, Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-29, Issue-2.
-
Views
379 -
Downloads
47
