School Overcrowding (Field Study in Baghdad)

Abstract

The problem of School overcrowding has become an unavoidable reality in most of Iraq's schools. This problem is becoming worse every year. It varies from one school to the next, and it increases in the popular neighborhoods, which are mainly populated. If absorption is the basis of the educational process, overcrowding is the most important factor facing This absorption and the achievement of the distinguished student, his family and the ministry, so we will try to highlight in this study on this problem because it is one of the main reasons that harm the educational process and the damage to the general public, whether student or teacher, Head to identify the most important reasons leading to the occurrence of school overcrowding and the negative effects of it, the study also revealed that overpopulation leads to school overcrowding, and also revealed the relationship between the school overcrowding and the leakage of pupils from the school. The first part included the general framework of the study, namely, the definition of the problem, the importance and purpose of the study and the definition of the concepts of scientific terms. The second axis included the factors affecting the overcrowding of the school, while the field side included the scientific procedures of the study methodology, The sample (type and size) was randomized and randomized at the same time. It was conducted on (50) subjects. The field side included the presentation of the data and its analysis, the main results reached and the most important recommendations made by the researcher which would contribute to reducing the phenomenon of School overcrowding, and the most important findings of the study is that there is a relationship between the school overcrowding inside the school and drop out of school for pupils from the school. Population overcrowding also causes overcrowding within the school. The most important recommendations made to address this phenomenon is the need for social and educational awareness of the negative effects of the educational level in the case of overcrowding, as well as the establishment of new and nearby schools that attract these huge numbers of students (Absorptive absorption(.