IDENTIFYING SPATIAL, FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL MODIFICATIONS AND GUIDELINES TO COPE WITH EDUCATIONAL CHANGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

Abstract

The study identified spatial, functional, and technological
modifications and guidelines to cope with educational change
and contemporary challenges. The study adopted survey
research design in which (600) secondary school teachers were
purposively selected from thirty (30) secondary schools in southwest,
Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was a selfdeveloped
questionnaire divided into four sections with 28 items
based on the research topic. Four research questions were raised
and two hypotheses were generated and answered. The study
revealed that majority of the respondents agreed that learning
spaces influence teaching and learning process in the
educational change of twenty-first century. The study also
revealed that majority of the respondents agreed that technology
modification of twenty-first century influence change and
continuity in educational planning, The study further showed
that the issues and challenges to effective implementation of
educational planning in educational changes of twenty-first
century includes, blindness to the existing educational culture
and teaching learning conditions, insufficient understanding of
what change is like, lack of adequate planning skills,
misappropriation of development funds, lack of in-service
training on educational manager and failure to involve the key
stakeholders among others. The result also indicated that there
is strong significant influence of learning spaces on teaching and
learning process in the educational change of twenty-first
century and there is a significant influence of technology
modification of twenty-first century on change and continuity in
educational planning. Based on these findings, the following
recommendation among others was made: effective and efficient
educational planning should be built on sound decision in order
to strengthen educational change of twenty-first century.