Female Teachers' Perceptions of Quality Education for Adolescent Girls in Rural Bangladesh: A Case Study

The education of adolescent girls in Bangladesh must be pursued with the right combination of technology, practicality, and cultural sensitivity to achieve, among other objectives, the objectives of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The problem this study address is despite the availability of mobile-based curricula, such as video, mobile phones, and Short Message System (SMS) technology, female teachers in rural areas are not trained to plan and deliver curricula using mobile platforms. The purpose of this qualitative single case study is to explore barriers associated with female teachers’ training of the use of mobile-based technology in rural areas in Bangladesh. The sample is, randomly selected a minimum of eight local female teachers who had been teaching at least for two years in a rural school in Bangladesh. The data were collected to determine the local teachers’ perception on establishing quality education through virtual (email, mobile phone, IMO, zoom or Skype) interviews administered to these 8 local female teachers. The researcher gathered data from the local female teachers’ point of view based on their motivation to receive training in becoming proficient in English and the use of mobile technology in teaching. A content analysis tool was used for analyzing, interpreting, coding, and categorizing textual data where themes identified based on a comprehensive classification system. The findings from the data analysis would aid schools in recruiting, training, and retaining local female teachers to provide quality education to the adolescent girls. The data from the single case study provided information as to the use of mobile and web technologies in teaching and learning while local female teachers gain proficiency in the English language. The insight gained from this single case study may help develop future technology budgets, infrastructure, and curriculum needs. The findings from research revealed that the rural Bangladeshi school teachers noted that there is limited use of videos in the classrooms for teaching due to, in some parts, the lack of training by school administrators on strategies to use videos in their teaching. Some barriers to the use of videos is due to the lack of Internet connection, the lack of knowledge on the proper use of videos in their teaching, and the lack of administrators’ support for this type of curriculum change in the schools.