Challenges of family and teachers in educational practice: Urban and rural secondary school in Angola

Abstract

The research aimed to characterize the challenges of family and teachers during the educational practice carried out in the teaching and learning process in secondary schools in the urban and rural areas in Huila, Angola. The reason for the investigation lies in the fact that there are no studies that make reference to this theme in the educational context of Angola. This is a case study investigation of qualitative, descriptive and interpretative character, which analyzes a real situation in its real context. It had an intentional sample of 24 participants. The in-depth interviewing and content analysis were used to collect process and interpret the information. The results show many difficulties in the educational process, such as: predominance of traditional teaching methods, more precarious school network in the rural area, excessive number of students per class making it difficult to evaluate, mostly illiterate families and with unsatisfactory involvement in the educational process, deficient punctuality of the actors, there is not uniformity in teaching affecting the quality of teaching. Therefore, to improve the quality of educational practice it is essential to invest in the training of actors, build, equip schools and confer good participatory management.

Keywords

• secondary schools
• teachers
• educational practice
• family.