TITLE:
Politics and Educational Leadership in Nigerian Schools: Issues and Challenges
AUTHORS:
Njideka Gloria Ikegbusi, Uchenna C. Chigbo-Okeke, Melody Ndidi Modebelu
KEYWORDS:
Politics, Education, Educational Leadership, Nigerian Schools, Issues, Challenges
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.3 No.7,
July
26,
2016
ABSTRACT:
This paper intended to provide a brief overview of the issues and
challenges in the educational leadership in Nigerian schools and the political
involvement in the managerial structure. Tracing down the history of education
during and after the colonial era, were indications of types of schools within
the stated period, whether public or mission schools, and the political
involvement in the management, leadership and students' admission. Many
concerned citizens have written on the educational system and attributed its deploying
conditions to poor implementation of curriculum, inadequate funding and poor
monitoring or supervision. The paper concludes that the politics in the
educational sector was based mostly on quota system and godfathers, which
adversely affect educational leadership of the country. Based on these it was
recommended among others that politicians should allow the education
authorities to select leaders for schools with a stated standard. Again,
experts should be in the leadership positions of schools and should be made to
be autonomous.