Correlates of Citizenship Behaviour of Nigerian Secondary School Students |
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| Authors: | Samuel Folorunso Ogundare |
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| Institution: | Department of Social Studies , Oyo State College of Education , Ilesa, Nigeria |
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| Abstract: | This paper examined the extent to which gender, academic achievement in social studies and the occupation of the parents of the students may be intervening variables in the citizenship behaviour of students within the school purview. An observational scheme, using Mehlinger's and Okunrotifa's posit, was used to observe 60 students for 3 weeks by trained raters. While the general picture appears satisfactory and gender has no significant influence, academic achievement in social studies and the occupation of parents are significant variables associated with student degree of citizenship behaviour. Therefore, in all school work dealing with civic competence, moral education concepts should be used and students should be associated heterogeneously across sex, intellectual capability and parents’ status. |
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