COMMUNITY STRUCTURES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO STATE

The study is intended to identify community structures and their areas of involvement in managing senior secondary schools for productive teaching-learning in Kano State, Nigeria. The study specifically intended to achieve the following research objectives: to identify community structures involved with the management of public senior secondary schools in Kano State; to identify the areas of participation of the identified community structures in the management of public senior secondary schools in Kano State. The population of the study comprised the teaching staff, non-teaching staff, officials of Parent- Teachers Association (PTA) and officials of School- Based Management Committee (SBMC) in public secondary schools in Kano State, Nigeria. The officials of the SBMC and PTA included: Chairman/ Chairperson, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Public Relations Officer (PRO) and Treasurer. The population of the study specifically is 20,106. This number 20,106 was obtained from the existing 945 public secondary schools in Kano State as provided by Kano State Secondary Schools Management Board (KSSMB, 2018).The sample size for the study was determined using Research Advisors (2006) Sample Size Table, where 378 respondents were selected. The survey design was used and the instruments for data collection were a questionnaire and an interview schedule. The findings of the study indicated among others that the community structures involved with the management of public senior secondary schools in Kano State are: old students association, community development association, women organisation, religious groups, youth’s clubs or association, Parent Teachers Association (PTA), School Based Management Committee (SBMC), Community Promotion Committee and Students association. The areas of community structures participation in the management of public secondary schools in Kano State include: planning for the development of the senior secondary schools, teachers training and professional development support, decision making, monitoring and evaluation. It is therefore, recommended among other things that: awareness campaign should be done by government and other stakeholders like community leaders on the importance of creating community structures in the management of public secondary schools. This could be done by the use of mass media and community leaders.