Prospects and Challenges of Learners’ Early Specialization in Tanzanian Secondary Schools Education: Evidence from Stakeholders’ Voices

This study explored prospects and challenges of learners’ early specialization in Tanzanian secondary school using qualitative methods. Where interview and focus group discussion were the guiding tools of the data collection. The study discovered that early specialization helps in career preparations, talents identification, reduce burden to learners by not concentrating on the things that a learner is not interested. Yet the challenges identified includes: few resources in schools, teachers were not well prepared for guiding learners in early specialization, learners need enough time for them to explore the careers because carrier guidance services are not provided at schools. The study concludes by calling upon the government to provide in-service training to teachers for them to guide well the learners in early specialization.