SOCIO-POLITICAL FACTORS AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN TEACHER PREPARATION AS DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

This study investigated socio-political factors and economic uncertainty in teacher preparation as determinants of effective teaching and learning in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Population of the study constituted 7,034 teachers from the 265 public secondary schools in the six education zones in Anambra State. Sample size of the study comprised 300 teachers selected out of the entire population at 5% (percent) using the stratified random sampling techniques. The scores obtained computed using Cronbach Alpha method which yielded internal consistency reliability co-efficient of 0.87, 0.089 and 0.85 for each of the three clusters and these scores equally added up to yield an overall reliability value of 0.98 showing that the questionnaire was reliable for conducting the study. Data collated were analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation while t-test was used to test null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that the socio-political factors and Economic uncertainty include type of teaching technique used by the teachers, issue of insecurity, unstable government policies, politicisation of infrastructures, political conflicts leading to industrial actions all these demotivates student-teacher ambition into teaching profession. Based on the findings it was recommended among others that the state government should involve the educational stakeholders to determine institutions objectives and delegate teachers on the major areas of responsibility, they should ensure equal distribution of infrastructure and instructional materials to schools, teachers should avail themselves equal opportunities to attend seminars, workshops and conferences that will refresh their mind on those concepts, ideas skills, methods and practices which they learnt in school.

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