TITLE:
Life Cycle of Private Schools Experiencing Failure in Democratic Republic of Congo
AUTHORS:
Corneille Luboya Tshiunza, Landry Kinkani Batekele, Jean Paul Yawidi
KEYWORDS:
School Failure or School Bankruptcy, Private School and Life Cycle of an Organization
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.10,
October
31,
2017
ABSTRACT: Over 217 private schools were surveyed on bankruptcy or failure in the Educational
Province of Kinshasa-West between 2007 and 2012 in DR Congo.
This particular situation needs to be studied. This mixed methods study with
triangulation allowed collection and exploitation of two types of data separately.
The qualitative data were made up by the archives documents of the
140 schools. The quantitative data collected by survey (questionnaire) with
420 actors from these private schools respectively ex-schools’ promoters,
ex-teachers and ex-schools’ principals. This sequential exploratory mixed
methods study describes briefly some determinant factors of failure and categorize,
classify and describe the characteristics of life cycle stages of these private
schools’ experiencing failure.