From Classrooms to Politics: Teachers’ Perceptions of Political Activities in Peshawar Schools

Abstract

Politics have devastated the educational institutions, teacher and students’ performances became zero, respect for teacher got finished and even teachers themselves became enemies of one another and pull one another legs for personal benefits. The school is not more an educational body but it is like a parliament. The overall purpose of the proposed study was to analyze the perception of teachers on the politics in the educational institutes of district Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objectives of the proposed study were to explore the political activities and their impacts on teachers, students, and overall body of educational institutions. The target population was teachers both male and female, from the public and private Secondary Schools of District Peshawar. A sample of 200 teachers was selected conveniently from district Peshawar. Questionnaires containing 20 items were prepared and data was collected, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted. It has been concluded that majority of the teachers are involved in politics in educational institutions which have affected the performances of the teacher, students and overall performance of educational body badly. It is recommended that teachers may be recruited only on the criteria of merit so that we may have politics free environment in our educational institutes.