The Sense of Hope and Future Between Chinese Students and Tanzanian Students

Abstract

A sense of hope and aspirations for the future are often conceptualized as components of resilience for undergraduate students. However, less is known about the factors that may influence how these undergraduate students develop their sense of hope and future and how those aspirations may impact their experiences after school. The main objective of this study is to examine the sense of hope and future between Chinese and Tanzanian students. Specifically, the study examines the sense of hope of Chinese students and Tanzanian students, investigates the future of Chinese students and Tanzanian students, and compares the sense of hope and the future of Chinese students and Tanzanian students.

The study adopted a non-experimental correlational research design with mixed methods of both quantitative and qualitative data along with purposive sampling technique and simple random sampling technique to select 21 Tanzanian university students and 24 Chinese university students from each country; this, therefore, gave an overall total of 45 participants. The instrument (Questionnaire on Sense of Hope and Future between Chinese Students and Tanzanian Students) was developed and used for the study.

The study's findings revealed that Chinese and Tanzanian students had complete confidence in the future, and there is a high sense of hope between Chinese students and Tanzanian students. The findings also showed that Chinese and Tanzanian students energetically pursued their goals, and there was a high sense of hope between them. The findings revealed that the present ideal situation determined the future of Chinese and Tanzanian students; there is a high sense of future between Chinese and Tanzanian students. The findings again revealed a high sense of future between Chinese and Tanzanian students. The findings lastly indicated that there ‎is a significant difference ‎ between the sense of hope and the future of Chinese students and the sense of hope and the future of Tanzanian students. The sense of hope and future among Chinese students is higher than that among Tanzanian students, yet there is a positive sense of hope and future between Chinese students and Tanzanian students.

Some of the study's implications are creating awareness of the future among Chinese and Tanzanian students. Parents in both China and Tanzania need to become conscious of the sense of hope and future of their children and how these children can be affected. Government parastatals should enable proper planning by the stakeholders for these youths. This study finally has implications on how the policy documents were distributed to operators through school authorities, the government, the Ministry of Education, online, the board of education, colleagues, and the local Inspectorate of Education (LIE) bought from the seminar.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-34-04

Publication date: December 31^st 2023