Reframing Administrative Strategies on Community Participation in Primary Education towards Sustainable Child Development

The paper explained how administrative strategies on community participation can be reframed and used to ensure sustainable child development in primary schools. A conceptual definition of reframe, strategies, community participation, primary education and development has been elucidated and situational theory was used and identified that administrative action depends on the circumstances within a given situation. Strategies for community participation include encourage community use of school facilities, development of physical projects, identify the areas where community needs the school help, newsletters, career day etc. But administrative strategies that ensure child development include teamwork and trust between the schools and families they serve, employ effective organisation and teacher training, link community participation to learning etc. It is suggested among others that teachers should be properly trained and provided with necessary materials and proper planning for community participation should be done with all commitment and seriousness. The paper concludes that for active and total community participation in primary education in Nigeria there is the need to reframe, rethink and revitalise the administrative strategies on community participation keeping in mind sustainable child development.