Promoting Leadership, Value Re-orientation and Sustainable Development through Functional Secondary School Education

摘要

The study investigated ways of promoting leadership, value re-orientation and sustainable development through functional Secondary School Education. Three research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 308 teachers in all the 18 public secondary schools in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 respondents 10 each from the 10 secondary schools used for the study. Researchers-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Mean scores were used for data analysis. Results revealed that functional secondary school education helps to equip students with necessary qualities, knowledge and skills for effective leadership, value re-orientation and promotion of sustainable national development. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government should make secondary school education more functional in order to live up to its mandate of developing future leaders who will contribute in societal values re-orientation and sustainable development.