MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OGUN STATE (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
According to research, Ehindero, Aladejana and Jegede (2009:12) define education as a process of critical, analytical and continuous re-assessment, readjustment and rediscovery of self, society and culture in the total contexts of life and living”. Education should enable those who consume it learn marketable skills to earn a job, learn to think, have an informed decision making which is cognizance of moral ethics as the component of life. It also entails personal development, and not just knowledge orientation or vocational. Relatedly, education is a process of providing knowledge, skills, competence or desirable qualities of behaviour or character being so provided especially in a formal course of study, institution or training (Akpa, 2002). Education goes on all through one’s life, deepening and broadening one’s vision with expectant benefits to him as a person and the entire society. The individual’s advancement in education is without doubt improved knowledge, skills and capacities on which the roots of development are anchored. The development of society is therefore couched on the level of its educational attainment. Martin Luther King Jr. is quoted by Akpa (2002:25) as saying “The prosperity of a country depends not on the abundance of its revenues nor in the strength of its fortification. It consists in the number of its cultivated citizens in its men and women enlightenment and character”. The natural resources are mobilized, exploited to create a market by the humans. Thus economic development of any society begins with the mind of men and not with goods through education, organization and discipline (Udoh and Akpa 2001). Without education, all other resources remain latent untapped potentials; thus it is an indisputable tool for national development.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria (2004) defined secondary education as that form of education children receive after primary education and before the tertiary stage. Precisely, it has a planned diversified curriculum to cater for the differences in talents, opportunities and future role among other objectives. Secondary education is expected to groom the individual culturally, scientifically, technologically and commercially. It is to expose the school leaver to be creative and critical, and opportunities to acquire reasonable skills among other benefits.
The secondary schools have been besieged by a lot of challenges which are administrative, political, socio-cultural, demographic, environmental, economical, and technological and so on. This research is set to determine the effects of administrative problems on the management of secondary schools and goals achievement. Two administrative problems will be examined to see the extent to which they have affected the delivery of secondary school objectives. These are students’ population explosion, and information and communication technology (ICT). The secondary schools have suffered a pathetic population explosion which has affected proper implementation of its programmes which in turn has affected the achievement of its basic objectives.
