ABSTRACT This study was conducted to investigate the strategies for enhancing community participation in funding of secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone. The purpose of this study was to find out the constraints that face community participation in funding of secondary schools, community school relation of activities, methods of contribution that would be adopted by the community and policies that should be initiated by the government to enhance community participation in funding of secondary schools. The population of the study consists of all the public secondary school principals, teachers; and community representatives in Nsukka Education Zone. The sample size for the study was six hundred and nineteen (619) respondents in Nsukka Education Zone. The zone was stratified into local government areas using simple random sampling techniques. For fair representation of population, forty (40) percent of the principals and teachers plus (50) percent local government areas of Nsukka Education Zone were used as the sample for the study. This gave 471 principals and teachers plus 148 community representatives which now gave a total of six hundred and nineteen (619) sample size. Four research questions and two null hypotheses were used to guide the study. The reliability of the instrument was determined at 0.871 using crobach Alpha test of reliability. Mean and standard deviation was used to test the two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study was to determine the constraints facing of community participation in funding of secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone, school Community relations of activities, methods of contribution that should be adopted by the community and policies that should be initiated by the government to enhance community participation in funding of secondary schools. Based on the findings, it is recommended that government at all level; communities and private sectors should make adequate provision for the successful funding, implementation and actualization of secondary school objectives.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ................................................................................................. i

APPROVAL PAGE ...................................................................................... ii

CERTIFICATION ....................................................................................... iii

ACKNOWLEDGMENT ............................................................................. iv

DEDICATION ............................................................................................... v

ABSTRACT .................................................................................................. vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................... vii

LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................ x

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 1

Background of the Study ................................................................................ 1

Statement of Problem .................................................................................... 11

Purpose of the Study ..................................................................................... 12

Significance of the Study .............................................................................. 12

Scope of the study ......................................................................................... 15

Research Questions ....................................................................................... 15

Hypotheses .................................................................................................... 16

CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ................................... 17

Conceptual Frame Work ............................................................................... 18

Theoretical Frame Work ............................................................................... 24

Review of empirical studies .......................................................................... 35

Summary of the Reviewed Literature ........................................................... 41

CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHOD ........................................ 43

Research Design ............................................................................................ 43

Area of the Study .......................................................................................... 43

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Population of the Study ................................................................................. 44

Sample and Sampling Technique.................................................................. 45

Instrument for Data Collection ..................................................................... 45

Validation of the Instrument ......................................................................... 46

Reliability of the Instrument ......................................................................... 47

Method of Data Collection ............................................................................ 48

Method of Data Analysis .............................................................................. 48

CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF

RESULTS .................................................................................................... 50

Research question one ................................................................................... 50

Research question two .................................................................................. 51

Research Question three: .............................................................................. 54

Research question four .................................................................................. 55

Hypothesis one .............................................................................................. 57

Hypothesis two .............................................................................................. 58

Summary of Major Findings ......................................................................... 59

CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION, IMPLICATION, RECOMMENDATION

AND CONCLUSION .................................................................................. 62

Discussion of Findings .................................................................................. 62

Implication of the Research Findings ........................................................... 68

Recommendations ......................................................................................... 70

Limitation of the Study ................................................................................. 71

Suggestions for further Research .................................................................. 71

Summary of the Study................................................................................... 72

Conclusion .................................................................................................... 73