WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (WJSS)
ISSN: 2504 – 9232
Volume 4, No. 1 & 2, September 2019
Pages 69-83
DOI: 10.36108/wjss/9102.40.010250
PRINCIPALS’ PERCEPTION ON THE INFLUENCE OF VALUES EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS ON GOVERNANCE IN BAYELSA STATE
NANIGHE BALDWIN MAJOR & KOSIOMA E. OWEDE
Abstract
The study examines the perception of secondary school principals on the influence of value education on governance in Bayelsa state. The research design adopted for the study was the descriptive survey. The instrument for data collection was a researchers’ structured questionnaire named “Value Education and Governance Questionnaire (VEGQ)” made up of twenty items and formatted on a four-point Likert type. To determine the reliability of the instrument, the test-retest method was used; scores paired and computed using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation to obtain a reliability coefficient of 0.72. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions with a criterion mean score of 2.50 as basis for accepting or rejecting responses. The simple regression statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of statistical significance. The results showed that the teaching of value education in secondary schools influenced governance in Bayelsa state on all the variables measured in the study. It was therefore recommended among others that regular workshops and seminars should be instituted and made compulsory for concerned teachers and principals to properly reposition the teaching and learning of value education in secondary schools to serve as a tool for the actualization of good governance in Bayelsa state.
Keywords: Principals, perception, value education, influence and governance.