A history of modern education in limmu kosa District (1958 -1991)

Abstract

The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the history of modern education in Limmu Kosa Di1strict from late 1958-1991. The purpose of the study is to reconstruct a history of modern education in Limmu Kosa district, focusing on the periods between 1958 and 1991. They year 1958 was marked as the establishement year of the first Limmu Genet elementary school in the district, while the year 1991 is landmark due to the demise of Darg regime and the coming of Ethiopia people`s Revoutionary Demoracy Front (EPRDE) to power. Nevertheless its progress was much slower until 1975, when its expansion got a new momentum, and hence in 1977 more than 80% schools of all kinds were built in Limmu Kosa district. Much extraordinarily, modern education expanded exponentially in the postrevolution period and by the late 1980s the number of schools stretched to 15, while student enrolment, the number of teachers and the percentage of literacy significantly grew. In spite of expansion of modern education in Limmu Kosa District, it faced several challenges including shortage of teachers and other resources particularly in those early years.The study attempts to fulfill the existing historical gaps in the district during the period understand. This theis`s reconstucted the history of modern education in Limmu Kosa district based on revevant archivial, primary, secondary and oral sources. Appropriate data from different sources like archival matrials, government published reports, manscipts, interpreted and narrated chronologically. They study employs aqualititive approach of data collection and analysis by combining both thematic and chronological approaches. Accordingly, both primary and secondary sources obtain from the Ethiopian National Archival and Library Agency(ENALA), interviews of informants and seondary literature have been carefully examined and interrpreted in order to reconstruct of modern education of the area. Thus, this thesis argues that the socio-economic and administrative changes made by Emperor Haile Selassies government in the 1958 period brought little improvement in to provide primary education most of the local people of the district. The study also tries to examine developmenments that Limmu Kosa witessed during the Darg regime (1974-1991). The military regime`s attempts to place its power on a better position economic life of the people of Limmu Kosa. Moreover, the thesis accesses the perdominant reforms of imperial government in fields of school system. The study also to inspect and commencement, growth, emergence/expansion that obsereved in Limmu Kosa district during the regime of Darg. The fnding of this study confirm that the economical poor families got educational acess and their families befenef it to minimiazing the cost of rented house. They have had access to primary and secondary school in nearby