MAKING A CASE FOR ETHICAL AND MORAL LEADERSHIP IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: TEACHERS' PERCEPTION OF ETHICAL AND MORAL LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN EDO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined teachers' knowledge of ethical and moral leadership of secondary school principals in Edo State. It determined teachers' perception of ethical and moral leadership of the school principals in the region and as well examined the influence of
factors such as gender and years of teaching experience on teachers' perception of ethical and moral leadership of the school principals in the study area. The study employed survey research design. The population consisted of 296 secondary schools 3,321 teachers and 296 principals in Edo State. A total of 330 teachers constituted the sample size for the study using multistage sampling procedure. As instrument titled: “Perception and Knowledge of Secondary School Principals on Ethical and Moral Leadership Questionnaire” (PKSSPEMLQ) was developed, validated and used for data collection. Two research questions were asked and answered and two hypotheses were tested. The simple percentage, graph, t-test and ANOVA were the statistical tools used in the analysis of data. Furthermore, the results revealed that teachers had low knowledge (52.1%) of ethical and moral leadership of school principals in Edo State. Furthermore, The study also showed that there is significant difference of gender on teachers' perception of ethical and moral leadership of the school principals (t = 4.701; p<0.05). It was recommended that government should provide an enabling environment that will allow school principals to discharge their roles as expected