Managing School-Community Cooperation for Sustainable Secondary Education in A Post Covid-19 Era in Bayelsa State

Akam Okon Udoh; Fredrick Akomaye Abang

Managing School-Community Cooperation for Sustainable Secondary Education in A Post Covid-19 Era in Bayelsa State

Akam Okon Udoh, Fredrick Akomaye Abang

Abstract

This study investigated managing school-community cooperation for sustainable secondary education in a Post Covid-19 Era in Bayelsa State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design was used. The population of the study comprised 207 principals in the 207 public secondary schools in Bayelsa State and 207 PTA chairmen plus 50 community development chairmen, making a total of 464 principals, PTA chairmen and the community development chairmen. A sample size of 464 principals, PTA chairmen and the community development chairmen representing 100% of the population served as respondents. Census sampling technique was used. A 12-item questionnaire titled: Managing School Community Cooperation for Sustainable Secondary Education in a Post Covid-19 Era Questionnaire” (MSCCSSEPCEQ) was used. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to obtain 0.73 reliability. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while z-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result amongst others revealed that, school-community have not cooperated in contributing financially to make provision of ICT facilities to encourage digital secondary education sustainable. Judging holistically from the findings of this study, it is crystal clear that for public schools to be able to meet necessary requirement to sustain secondary education pursuit in a digitally compliant education globally in Bayelsa State most especially in this post Covid-19 era, there is need for school and community to collaborate in a way to make necessary provision of some basic facilities and other things that the government has not been able to provide. It was recommended that, school-community should continuously tighten their cooperation to financially contribute to making sure their schools’ function in the direction of ICT so that the students and teachers will be firm in handling academic issues in a digital manner to sustain secondary education as practice in the globally

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School;community;cooperation;sustainable;post Covid-19 Era

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