Quality school management and prevention of violence in school milieu: case study of Government high school Ngoa-Ekele.

Abstract

This project aims to restore the former Cameroonian educational system glory/dignity by measuring and enhancing the influence of quality school management on the school violence prevention which departs from the observation for decades already, the violence issue in our schools milieu becomes as endemic as it is taking a worrying and dangerous proportion. School violence arises from the context of the advent of the democratization progressive movement initiated by John Dewey (1920) and adopted by Human Rights and UNESCO. In Ngoa-Ekele GHS this violence issue has reached a historical record, despite the reforms carried out by the State, which led to the shifting from the new curricular and managerial paradigm. Due to the major systemic problem of managerial failure/defect linked to the incompetencies of school managers, this alarming situation calls out and challenges the minds of thinkers on daily basis. Aware of the consequences and threats that weight on society as well as schools, remaining indifferent, skeptical and insensitive to it would be a heresy. That is why they have been proactive by concocting the conative (Spinoza,1677) and criminology theories Godfredson & Travis Hirschi, (2002) stipulating a priori that the management style influences on the increase and reduction of school violence. As a result, they suggest a posteriori the paradigm of quality school management as a panacea, capable of delivering our schools from the chains of violence and preventing the rise of the said phenomenon in order to improve school climate, the performance of educational system. Hence the research hypothesis; quality school management influences the school violence prevention in Ngoa-Ekele GHS, from which is derived 4 specific hypothesis; SH1: Efficacious school planning influences the prevention of violence in Ngoa- Ekele GHS. SH2: Efficient school organization influences the prevention of violence in Ngoa- Ekele GHS. SH3: Relevant school administration influences the prevention of violence in Ngoa-Ekele GHS. SH4: Effective school control influences the prevention of violence in Ngoa- Ekele GHS. The research action design is the typology of research which is convened, then the method for data collection is quantitative, and the use of stratified random sampling technique. After administrating the distantial closed-ended questionnaire to our target population, including 76 individuals, as a sample size constituted of 5 personnel and 10 students in each class except those of form1 who were 11. The data collected were submitted to the STATA software for analysis via Chi-2 and Cramer's V tests who unfortunately abuses with dichotomous and uncorralated results. Immediately, we have not hesitated to refer to the binominal logistic regression which on 4 specific hypothesis, two have been validated (SH1 & SH3) and the two others have been invalidated (SH2 & SH4). Therefore, our general hypothesis that quality school management influences the school violence prevention on Ngoa-Ekele GHS milieu has been validated partially, and some relevant recommendations that go in the sense of strengthening and improving quality school management and its 4 operationalizations on the prevention of violence in Ngoa-Ekele GHS milieu have necessarily been suggested.