SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF CORRUPT PRACTICES IN NIGERIA: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELLING AND VALUE REORIENTATION

Abstract

Teamwork activities are becoming significant in higher education
system. Especially professors, lecturers apply teamwork
activities such as group assignments, group presentations
group discussion, seminars to help students comprehend
lectures easily and reveal students’ leadership skills such as
project planning, reflection, problem solving, team building,
decision making, goal setting, time management, project
management resource allocation, effective communication
networking, conflict resolution, diversity awareness, and selfconfidence. Universities, colleges prepare students to the
business life after the graduation, In order to preparing student
to their future career path, leadership skills play significant
role. The more student leadership skills develop, the more
students will adapt to real world situations. Teamwork
activities help to improve students’ leadership skills. Students
that participate group activities to collaborate their
teammate’s purpose of complete the course, assignments,
presentations will be having self-confident, effective
communication, decision making, problem solving, conflict
resolution skills so on. Students whose student leadership skills
improved might have chance to be successful at their future
occupations while they work as a part of team, collaborations
in organizations. The purpose of this study is to provide a better comprehension of the concept of student leadership
skills, teamwork activities at universities and colleges, link
between teamwork activities and student leadership skills. We
have done this by clarifying student leadership skills within the
teamwork activities context identifying the idea of relationship
based on project planning, reflection, problem solving, team
building, decision making, goal setting, time management,
project management resource allocation, effective
communication networking, conflict resolution, diversity
awareness, and self-confidence skills based on past studies in
the literature.