A HISTORY OF EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF SODO WEREDA, IN GURAGUE ZONE: HISTORICAL SURVEY

Abstract Historical survey of Education and Educational Institution of Gurage Zone of the Sodo Wereda"s the main objective of this Thesis. To this ending, the revise for the most part depends on the serious investigation of primary and secondary sources. Education for the initial point introduced interested in Sodo Kristine province"s a outcome of the Italian imposing livelihood, those the before occupation schools were closed. The schools established in 1933EC were partly the Vocational and non-secular School was opened for the various purposes. Though, modern education for the whole masses was introduced to when the first government school had been established at Sodo. From 1941-74 it saw considerable adjust, moreover in common service or school expansion. But the school expansion before 1974 was fundamentally limited toward urban centers. The express increase of schools from corner to corner from the Tekili gezat to the awraja had opened from 1974. During in this interlude, schools would be established, and starting from the late 1960s the expansion of modern education in Gurage had given away a sluggish development. In the Studies of the Southern Ethiopia particularly in the Gurage of sodo wereda the historical Survey was still at early life Stage. This is created a big gap in the Historiography of the Educational development of the not only the in the Sodo wereda but also in the Ethiopia in the generally. The Religious, Socio-Cultural, political and the traditional history was least Studies, but not the Researcher was studies the Education and the Educational institutions of the sodo wereda of the Gurage Zone. According to my view these studies fill the historical gape of the Education and the educational institution in the Ethiopian Studies. The thesis studies factors used on the primary and secondary sources, which are includes the Oral and the Archival Sources from the Sodo wereda Education office,CCF voluntary organization sectors and wereda administration Archival Center.