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Author(s):
Ndem Nsungo Udo, Bassey E. Eni.
Page No : 1-10
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Factors Responsible for Educational Wastages Among Senior Secondary School Science Students in Cross River State, Nigeria
Abstract
This study was descriptive survey study carried out in Southern Cross River State, Nigeria. The study has aimed at finding out factors that influence educational wastages among senior secondary school science students in Cross River State. Three hundred science teachers were randomly selected from secondary schools in the study area. The instrument for data collection was the Determinants of Educational Wastages in Secondary Schools Questionnaire (DEWSSQ). The instrument had a construct validity of 0.76 using Cronbach Alpha. The instrument was administered on the respondents and the data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and chi-square. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the chi-square was used to test the hypotheses. The results of the study showed that economic-related factors, government-related factors, school-related factors, home-related factors and gender-related factors were found to have accounted for educational wastages. All the hypotheses were rejected at 0.05 level of significance because in all the cases, the calculated chi-square were higher than the critical value. The paper thus recommended among others the recruitment of qualified science teachers into the school system, adoption of innovative teaching methods in the classroom and the provision of instructional materials in the secondary schools.
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Author(s):
Festus Moses Onipede, Victoria Oluwakemi Olofin.
Page No : 11-26
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Spellings, Pronunciation and CMC: A Study of Selected Nigerian Tertiary Institution Aspirants’ Facebook Group Posts
Abstract
This paper examines the linguistic features of spelling and pronunciation of Nigerian tertiary institution aspirants' facebook group posts. The features of the spelling and pronunciation are analysed based on phonetic spellings, colloquial spellings, prosodic spellings, and homophone spellings. It uses Herring's (2004) theoretical framework. The data were gathered from different facebook groups of different tertiary institutions (Polytechnics and Universities). The findings showed that the aspirants used different styles of spellings and pronunciation, which could not be found in their mother tongue (MT) or English Language. And the causes of nonstandard spellings and pronunciation are mother tongue interference, aspirant's individualistic style of writing variation and creativity, which feature under phonetic spellings, colloquial spellings (phaeresis, syncope, apocope, acronyms), prosodic spellings, absence/presence of contraction, epenthesis (prosthesis), homophone spellings, phonological spellings, and metathesis.
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Author(s):
C. S. Herrman.
Page No : 27-47
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John Mackey’s “Conscious Capitalism”: A Discursive Statement with Cross-Cultural Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Abstract
This paper draws attention to cultural typology as a factor relevant to the stewardship of offices – in particular those of the business community – and within that focus the notion of dignity is upheld as against that of cynicism. The arguments are developed in the context of entrepreneur John Mackey’s “conscious capitalism”, the best canopy label under which to include more specific endeavors such as ‘social entrepreneurship’ or ‘creative capitalism’ because it implies a known and considered responsibility to certain normative, chiefly ethical, ends.
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Author(s):
Adepoju Banji Marcellinus (Ph.D), Akinola Olanrewaju Victor.
Page No : 48-56
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Duty of Confidentiality and Office Administration: A Moral Consideration
Abstract
The paper attempts a moral consideration on confidentiality and office administration. Confidentiality is seen as a major theme and ethical code in office administration cum public administration; it is a duty an administrator not to disclose or relate some confidential information to public or third party without receiving the consent of the higher or topmost officer (issuer of the information) of the organization. It could be infer from the foregoing that duty of confidentiality constitutes a moral dilemma in office administration especially public office where conflict of interest emerges between the employer and employee, and the relationship between one employee and the other is of great essentiality. Now, the question is, what obligation an office officer/administrator has to protect the image of the organization? What role should one play on duty of confidentiality as an administrator where there is conflict of interest; for instance, a situation when an office secretary was asked to type a retrenchment letter for his husband who happens to be an employee in same organization? What should be an action of this officer? In this regard, this paper thrust is to critically examine the paradox of the duty of confidentiality and, the justification for the duty of confidentiality. Also, we will discuss various limitation to the duty of confidentiality on office administration. For methodological purpose, the paper shall employ critico-expository approach to examine the subject matter, since man is a product of his experience.
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Author(s):
Utalor Jennifer Chidinma.
Page No : 57-116
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Influence of Broadcast Media Messages on Awareness, Perception and Attitude of Maternal Health Among Reproductive Women in Ilorin
Abstract
Poor knowledge and insufficient information about maternal health among women have been identified as some of the factors responsible for increasing maternal mortality in developing countries. Since the broadcast media is regarded as one of the effective means of communication in such countries, this study examined perceived impact of broadcast media messages on knowledge, attitude and perception of maternal health among women in Ilorin. The objectives of the study were to (i) find out women’s level of exposure to broadcast media messages, (ii) investigate the level of awareness of women about maternal health messages on broadcast media, (iii) examine women’s perception of maternal health messages on broadcast media (iv) and investigate the influence of maternal health messages on broadcast media on women’s attitude towards maternal health. Using survey quantitatively, a sample size of 382 respondents was selected for this study. While 400 copies of questionnaires were distributed to women in ancient and new settlements of Ilorin to anticipate return. Stratified sampling was used to allocate questionnaires equally between settlements while purposive sampling was used to distribute the questionnaires individually to female respondents. Data were analysed using frequency and percentage tables, mean, standard deviation, correlation and regression analysis.
The study concluded that broadcast media is popularly used by women and is a major source of enlightenment on maternal health issues but radio was identified as more effective than television in disseminating maternal health messages. It was therefore recommended that television should be properly used for maternal health campaigns for its advantage of sound and motion picture and that maternal health messages should be promoted through broadcast media programmes such as drama, documentary and news.
