Livelihood and survival strategies among Gweru urban teachers and their implications on pupils' performance in the current Zimbabwe's flopping economy

Eresi Muzvondiwa ()
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Eresi Muzvondiwa: Midlands State University

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2020, vol. 7, issue 1, 74-85

Abstract: Currently, teachers' salaries in Zimbabwe are insufficient to sustain the harsh economic situation yet teachers seem to be meeting their monthly livelihood demands. A study to explore different survival strategies engaged by teachers under this current flopping economy was conducted in the Gweru urban. A total of 55 participants were randomly selected from five different schools. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics and Chi-Square test for association (SPSS version 21) were used to analyse the data. Findings revealed that teachers have adopted 15 survival strategies to augment their meagre salaries. Over 50% of the teachers indicated that borrowing money from banks/microfinance institutions, conducting extra lessons, poultry production, cross border trading, part-time teaching at private schools, production of horticultural produce and selling of goods (maputi "dried corn", sweets, peanut butter, snacks etc...) were pillars to their survival in this collapsing economy. Gender influenced the adoption of cross border trading (χ2 = 4.558; p

Keywords: Flopping economy; survival strategies; teachers; school; livelihood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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