Effect of Politics of Education on Management of Schools: An Analysis of Military Regime in Nigeria

Abstract

Politics is one of the integral parts in developing as well as manipulating the individual psychological needs and the society at large; it has been in a long term system of formalizing any constitutional believed about the right of the citizens. It has been deeply makes effect by the economical, educational and social conditions of our time. As education is one of the major factors that develop the society, education has also been manipulated by the politics especially under the military regime. Therefore this paper intended to examine the politics of education under the military regime, the methodology used in this was quantitative method using correlation analysis, and questionnai rewas used to find out politics of education under the military regime in Nigeria. The population of the study were retired managers of school; they were selected because they had best experience a sample of 20 out them was purposely selected to participate. The study found out that politics of education under the military regime had an influence positively as well as negative influence. Therefore it recommended that there is need to reinstall the meaning of politics specifically in education so that to change the attitude of the current generation of management.