National Transparency and Citizenship Behaviour of Public Secondary School Teachers in Rivers State

Abstract

This study empirically examined the extent to which national transparency relates with citizenship behaviour. The study focuses on secondary school teachers in Rivers state. This study was inspired by the increase in juvenile deficiency in the state and the fact that most of the age bracket are secondary school students. The study was also inspired by the fact that both the teachers and even the government have become almost helpless in curbing this quagmire. The dimensions for national transparency are declaration of assets, access to information and independent judiciary/parliament. The measures of citizenship behaviour are altruism and sportsmanship. The respondents for this study were teachers from both federal and state owned public secondary schools in Rivers state namely, Federal Government College, Army Day Secondary School, Rumuokwuta Girls Secondary School, Rumueme Girls Secondary School and Nkpolu Oroworukwo Secondary School. Twenty five (25) copies of research instrument were distributed to each of these school making a total of 125 copies. Hypotheses were tested using Spearman Rank order Correlation. This was done with the aid of SPSS version 21. The findings revealed that national transparency has a significant relationship with citizenship behaviour with the relationship between declaration of assets and altruism being the weakest while the relationship between access to information and sportsmanship was the strongest. The study further recommends that government should understand the behaviour of citizens are reciprocal behaviour and their actions are modelled by the citizens especially teachers of public secondary schools.