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    Influence of Catholic Church sponsorship in management of student unrest: case of public secondary schools in Siaya County, Kenya
    (Strathmore University, 2021) Isalano, Makhungu Antonina (Sr)
    This study explored influence of church sponsorship in management of students' unrest in secondary schools in Siaya County. Explicitly, the study analyzed relationship between church appointed school administrative leadership and the management of students' unrest; determined relationship between spiritual guidance of students and management of students' unrest; and examined relationship between sponsorship of development projects and management of students' unrest. The study was unde1pinned on the structural functioning theory. The study targeted catholic sponsored secondary schools in the county from which the sample size was taken. The study adopted a pragmatic approach method therefore employing concurrent triangulation mixed method design. Questionnaires, interviews and document analysis were used as data collection methods. The quantitative data was analyzed descriptively through frequencies and percentages using SPSS Version 26. Qualitative data was transcribed and analyzed through content analysis approach. The outcome of the study was evidence of disparities between numbers of student unrest among the church appointed school administrator institutions in comparison to the government appointed school administrator institutions. The church appointed administrators had less incidences of student unrest in comparison to those schools with government appointed administrators and this difference was statistically significant. The findings indicated a positive and significant correlation between church appointed administrative leadership and sponsorship of development projects with the management of student unrest. The findings showed a negative but insignificant association between spiritual guidance and management of student unrest. An increase in church appointment. of administrative leadership and sponsorship of development projects yielded an increase in management of student unrest while spiritual guidance did not have any effect on management of student unrest. The study concludes that student involvement and inclusion in planning of development projects of church sponsors and students would contribute to the reduction of student unrest cases; that lack of appropriate spiritual care initiatives and inexperienced teacher’s in these schools means that there was an increase in student unrest; and that schools that have a government appointed administrator had more cases and violent cases of student unrest.