Managing Sustainable Education for Social Studies and Economics Reactive Students in Post Covid 19 Era: A Case Study of Public Schools in Orlu Senatorial Zone, Imo State, Nigeria
The researchers investigated managing sustainable education for economics and social studies reactive students in post COVID 19 era: a case study of public schools in Orlu Senatorial Zone, Imo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey design carried out in public secondary schools in Orlu Senatorial Zone, Imo State. The population of the study consist of 201 (103 economics teachers and 98 school administrators) from the 98 public secondary schools in Orlu Senatorial Zone. The entire population was used for the study. The instrument for data collection in this study is a researcher made rating scale titled: Managing Sustainable Education for Reactive Students Teacher Scale of Secondary School Education for HIV Students Principal and Teacher Scale” (MSERSTS) with 20 items. Cronbach alpha statistic was used to determine the reliability of MSERSTS with index of 0.81. Mean score and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. The findings of the study show that the result also showed that this both the Social Studies and Economics subject teachers do not have adequate knowledge of reactive students enrolled in school, and that there is no significant difference between the mean ratings of Economics and Social Studies teachers on the extent of their knowledge of reactive status of their students. It was recommended that principals, teachers and the Ministry of Education should provide a legislation that protects disclosure of HIV reactive students’ status to the school.