Effect of Public Secondary Schools Categorisation on Students’ Commitment to Democratic Values
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Date
2019-08
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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES
Abstract
Nurturing students who cherish commitment to democratic values remains to be one of fundamental desires on the
perpetuation of democracy in Kenya since independence. In pursuit for this desire, the categorisation of public secondary
schools have remained to be a cardinal instrument toward realisation of this democratic goal. This study was designed to
explore the potential of various categories of public secondary schools in influencing students’ commitment to democratic
values in Kiambu County, Kenya. In so doing the study sort to find whether there were significant differences in
commitment to democratic values between students attending; National schools, Extra-County schools, County schools and
Sub-County schools. The study was carried out among public secondary schools in Kiambu County, Kenya. A total of 384
students were involved drawn from target population of 28,213 Form IV students using stratified proportionate random
sampling procedure. The study results revealed that, there were statistical significant differences in commitments to
democratic values among students attending; National schools, Extra-County schools, County schools and Sub-County
schools at F (3, 339) = 16.73, p =0.001, p < 0.05 with Tukey’s test indicating National schools were significantly different
from other three categories of public secondary schools (which did not have significant difference among them).Multiple
regression on categorisation of schools yielded a significant regression equation (F (4, 338) = 12.790 p<0.001) with R2 of
0.131.Thus, confirming that, there were variations in influence of different categories of public secondary schools on
students’ commitment to democratic value
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National schools, Commitment to democratic values, Extra-County schools, County schools, Sub-County schools