ABSTRACT

This research work was on the community participation in the Administration of secondary school in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State. The purpose of the study was to determine the extent community of participation in secondary school administration in the zone and then x- ray the need for their active participation. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. In order to focus the study, five research questions and five null hypotheses were formulated and used to guide the study. The population of the study comprised all the sixty two (62) principals and one thousand and four (2004) secondary school teachers in Nsukka Education Zone. Stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select sixty two (62) principals and four hundred and sixty six (466) teachers. The research developed a 43 – items questionnaire titled community participation in the Administration of Secondary School in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State (CPASSQ) which was used to illicit responses from the respondents. The reliability of the instrument was determined at 0.96 using Cronbach Alpha technique. Mean (x) and standard deviation (SD) were used to answer the research questions while t – test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings from the data analysis showed that several roles which the communities were expected to participate in secondary schools administration are done at minimal level and therefore are not do adequately. There is need for the communities to be actively involved in finding, decision making, infrastructural facilities provision, control of acts of indiscipline and security of the schools.