Al-Hikmah University Journal

The educational sector in Nigeria has been experiencing increasing change. So, school reform and restructuring efforts in past few years have been emphasizing the imperative of new and more collaborative forms of school leadership as the public expectation in quality teaching, school accountability and divergent input became more challenging and complex. Therefore this paper examines transformational leadership practices on the goal achievement of basic education in Nigeria. The transformational leadership practices used in this paper were anchored on the Kouzes and Posner, transformational leadership practices which are challenging the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, modelling the way, and encouraging the heart, which can be used by the school leaders to attain the goal achievement of the basic education. The implication of this paper is that the school head teachers should ensure that their leadership performance is always kept high to have a significant relationship with the goal achievement of basic education through better engagement of school teachers’ as well as better academic performance of the pupils. It is therefore recommended that school head teachers should adopt Kouzes and Posner’s leadership practices and utilize such knowledge to shape their behaviours and professional growth and consequently, increase their effectiveness in the schools.