DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AS PREDICTORS OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NSUKKA, ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Education has remained the most outstanding priority in the world today and human development remains the purpose of education. This explains why researchers in the world over have continued to seek ways of improving human development through knowledge acquisition. The major goal of the school is to enhance emotional and intellectual growth as well as moral and social competence of the students. Principally, children are sent to school to acquire functional literacy and social competence, and also to develop emotional intelligence that would make them competent in the society. The National Policy on Education (Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004) recognized the role of schools when it stated that schools provide children the opportunity for The acquisition of appropriate skills and the development of mental, physical and social abilities as well as the competences for the individuals to live and contribute to the development of the society; the training of the mind in the understanding o...