Teachers’ Misconduct and Corruption in Educational Leadership: Causes and Remedies A case of Morogoro region – Tanzania

Abstract

With an emphasis on socioeconomic, institutional, and cultural issues, this mixed-method study explores the underlying reasons of teacher misbehavior and corruption in educational leadership. To give a thorough grasp of the problem, the study integrates quantitative information from surveys with qualitative insights from focus groups and interviews. It has been discovered that the results guide evidence-based regulations and workable plans to lessen these difficulties and encourage moral behavior in academic settings. Nevertheless, the study uncovered the corruption to educational leaders is initiated by the school heads, mistakes done in procurement procedure, obeying unethical orders from their top leaders, and sometimes is the system established by the educational leaders. In turn this has resulted to poor performance of the general teaching in schools, poor practice of the formative assessment, underperformance of the government funded school projects. The study suggests that all government leaders apart from signing leadership ethical rules they should also be subjected to serious measures once malpractices in their area of educational leadership has been noted. Also formulate policies that govern teachers conduct and anticorruption.