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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: This study investigated the school climate challenges facing secondary school principals in Delta State, Nigeria. It was necessitated as a result of the increasing aggression, conflict, and indiscipline observed in secondary schools amongst staff, students, and the school administrators. Thus the findings will be exceptionally beneficial to principals, teachers, students and educational policy makers who are the major actors in the educational system. The feeling and attitude that are elicited by a school's environment are referred to as the school climate. A heterogynous stratified sample of 650 respondents comprising principals, teachers, and students was used in the study. The questionnaire used for data collection was structured on a 4-point Likert scale with mean scores of 2.50 and above as acceptable level. The questionnaire was validated in face and content by experts in Educational Administration. The reliability of this instrument was determined by Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient through the test-retest method to obtain a coefficient of 0.85. The data collected were analyzed using mean scores for the two research questions raised and One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for the two null hypotheses formulated and tested at 0.05 significant level. Results indicate that, there were no significant differences among the perceptions of principals, teachers, and students on school safety, teaching and learning, interpersonal relationship, the school environment, as well as on the possible solutions to the challenges of school climate faced by principals. Recommendations were made to enhance school climate and eliminate problems faced by principals to ensure effective instructional leadership. They include, among others, that school principals should increase safety by adopting violence-prevention and conflict-resolution programmes; increase students, teachers and non-teaching staff acceptance of diversity; ensure that students are treated with care, fairness and consistency; ensure that the school buildings are physically attractive and kept in good condition; that government should provide up-to-date learning materials and enforce the use of school climate as a central characteristic of school accountability and assessment system. |
| Keywords: school, safety, environment, teaching/learning, relationships, challenges, principals |
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