The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of aesthetic nature of school grounds of Lagos state public schools: a step toward sustainable development. Two research questions were raised for the study. Multi-stage sample was used, where forty-six schools were purposively selected from two districts to participate in the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted, and checklist and questionnaire were used to collect data. The reliability coefficients of the instruments were found to be 0.85 and 0.84. The findings show that Lagos State Junior Secondary Schools did not regard the major relevance of the aesthetic nature of school grounds, such as good quality hedges; walkways, flower beds, ornamental trees, grassed fields, car parks and assembly grounds, therefore they do not have quality aesthetic designs for school grounds. On how schools were maintained with regards to floods during the rainy season, results show that the following categories of these agents participated in controlling flood: 22 (48%) schools enjoyed government intervention; 13 (28%) schools made use of students to control flood and 11 (24%) enjoyed no assistance from any quarters. None of the schools received parents’ intervention. It was therefore recommended that government should ensure that school grounds should be given special attention and should be designed to add befitting attraction to the school environment.
In this study, a survey on quality of school sites and locations of Lagos State public schools was carried out with specific focus on the level of availability of the facilities with reference to UNESCO prescriptions for school facilities supplemented with Commonwealth Department of Education. Two research questions were raised for the study. Forty-six (46) Schools were randomly sampled from 2 purposively selected educational districts of Lagos State. The study adopted a descriptive survey design because it was concerned with what was on ground and how they conformed to the standards expected of the facilities. The instrument used to collect data and establish the standard and quality of available of school sites/ locations in the sampled schools was Checklist of the Existing School Location and Site (CESLS), whose reliability was found to be 0.83. The data collected were analysed using simple percentages. The findings showed that 97.8% of Public Junior Secondary Schools in Lagos State were located at accessible areas. Between 73.9% and 89.1% of the school plants were averagely good in quality. However, about 37% - 41% of the schools sampled had poor topography, epileptic power supply and irregular water supply. Few of the schools were located far from noisy areas and external distraction. This falls short of UNESCO's standard of 183 metres distance away from sources of noise. Between 32% and 52% of the schools were located close to sources of noise such as hotels, market areas and highways.
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