Citizenship Education in the Management of Deviant Behaviours among Tertiary Institution Students in North Central Nigeria

Abstract

Deviant behaviour among students in the institutions of learning is on the increase and it is obvious that any country that abandons her youths to be involved in deviant behaviour produces societal unrest, economic wastage and indiscriminate destruction of lives and property. This research will examine Citizenship education in the management of deviant behaviour among students in tertiary institution in North Central, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for this study and The population for the study comprises of all the students in the three university in the North Central geo-political zone of Nigeria, a sample of eight hundred (800) respondents was used for the study and the purposive and multi-stage sampling was used to ensure that both Federal, State and Private university were selected, each institution have an equal and independent chances of being selected for the entire population. The research instruments for data collection in this study was questionnaire and interview, Citizenship education in the management of deviant behaviour among students Questionnaire (SCEMDBASQ) was designed by the researcher to investigate Citizenship education in the management of deviant behaviour. The questionnaire was in the form of structured responses where strongly agree (SA), agree (A), disagree (D), strongly disagree (SD) and to a very great extent (VGE), to a great extent (GE), to a moderate extent (ME), to a little extent (LE) were used. The researcher design interview questions for respondents on Citizenship Education in the management of deviant behaviour among student’s oral interview (CEMDBASOIQ). The data collected were analysed using the descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage, means and standard deviation. The inferential statistics of Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the null hypotheses stated. The level of statistical significance will be set at α = 0.05. The data will be analysed using Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) Version 16.0 while discussions of the findings and recommendation will follow immediately.