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Author(s):
Editor in Chief.
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British Journal of Contemporary Education, Volume 2 Issue 2, Complete Issue
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British Journal of Contemporary Education, Volume 2 Issue 2, Complete Issue
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Author(s):
Prof. P.C. Okwelle, Adiela Bestman Kilechukwu.
Page No : 1-16
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Managerial Strategies for Proper Handling of Workshop Tools by Building Technology Education Students in Rivers State
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The study investigated the managerial strategies for proper handling of workshop tools by building technology education students in Rivers State. Specifically, the study sought to investigate planning, organising, co-coordinating and controlling strategies for proper handling of workshop tools by building technology education students in Rivers State. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised 21 lecturers and 12 workshop attendants in state and federal institutions which encompassed Rivers State University, Port-Harcourt, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port-Harcourt and Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku. The population was manageable and hence the entire population was used for the study. Therefore, no sampling method was adopted. The objectives were formulated, answered and tested at a .05 level of significance. The instrument used for the study was a survey questionnaire. The instrument was face validated by two Vocational Technology Education lectures at Rivers State University, Port-Harcourt, and it was tested for reliability using the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient method. A reliability value of .82 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while the t-test statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses. The study found among others that planning out the required logical steps for students on the usage of workshop tools, arranging for proper integration of workshop tools in students' practical section, organising safety procedures for students on the usage of workshop tools, organising requisite guideline for students towards the handling of workshop tools. Co-ordinating students to secure workshop tools properly during practical activities, co-ordinating students to maintain a cordial relationship in handling workshop tools, controlling students to be violent free when handling tools in the workshop and overseeing students to avoid anxiety in the use of workshop tools are managerial strategies for proper handling of workshop tools by building technology education students in Rivers State. Therefore, it was recommended that educators of building technology should ensure that the required logical steps concerning general workshop tools management are assured because it will help in giving out requisite guidelines for practical activities.
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Author(s):
Philip Kuro Ikiyei (Ph.D), Imomoemi Donkemezuo, Munasuote Precious , Timiebi Ifidi Seribofa.
Page No : 17-32
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Out-of-School Children in Nigeria: A Creation by Society and its Implications for Nation Building
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Education is a major key to the development of any nation. The realization that education is an engine room to the advancement of both industrial and technological growth of nations has propelled the leadership and citizens of many nations to consider the training of their younger generations with seriousness. The school is a formal institution vested with the responsibility to ensure that children are properly trained in the methods, ways and means for the future progress of the society. In Nigeria, there are educational policies put in place in line with other international institutions to ensure that all children at least acquire the basic level of education. Presently, there are millions of children that lack access to basic education. These children are referred to as out-of-school children. The real statistical figure of these children appears obviously shady. With the rapid explosion of the number of out-of-school children, Nigeria has been described globally as the country with the largest population of such children. It is on record that one out of every child that is excluded from formal education in Africa is a Nigerian child. There are many reasons that evidently might be responsible for lots of these children being out-of-school. Among them are poverty, ignorance, insecurity, corruption, the devaluation of education and knowledge in the social system, materialism and many more. No one can expect to reap what he/she did not give or sow, subsequently the aftermath of leaving out these children without completing their education had multiple negative consequences to the child, the society and the country at large. For one, such children might become ready crop of adults later in life to serve in menial positions of responsibilities with low salary grades; experience marital instabilities due to their economic status and therefore become ready tools that could be ignorantly manipulated by the political elite in the society. They may also raise families without birth control, thereby extending a vicious cycle of people living in poverty and low self-esteem. Beyond being easily exploited, most of them become known for anti-social vices, such as cultism, criminals with tendencies as armed robbery, drug addicts, rapists, kidnapers, hoodlums, and sex workers (prostitutes). The implications of all these to nation building is stagnation and general insecurity to life and property. The article then proffered some likely suggestions that can assist the society to overcome some of these psychosocial challenges once taken into consideration.
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Author(s):
Abdulai Boare Iddrisu, Christopher Saaha Bornaa, Francis Xavier Adams, Bernard Kissi-Abrokwah, Stephen Atepor, Lloyd Owuba-Asiedu, Grace Monto Bawa, Dennis Offei Kwakye.
Page No : 33-57
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Predictors of Girls’ Performance in Mathematics among Senior High School Students
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The study employed the Explanatory Sequential design of the Mixed-Methods approach to investigate the factors that affect female students’ performance in mathematics. Stratified and Simple Random Sampling techniques were used to sample three hundred and fifty-six (356) participants from four different Senior High Schools within the Northern Region to participate in the survey while 12 key informants were selected using the Expert Purposive Sampling technique for key informant interviews. Questionnaires and interview guides were the main instruments used for data collection. Inferential statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data while inductive thematic analysis was used in analysing the qualitative data. The results of the analyses showed that gender stereotypes, the socio-economic status of parents, self-motivation by the female students, the social environment in which the female students find themselves and teacher efficacy were the main factors affecting female students’ performance in mathematics.
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Author(s):
O.M. Oyeyipo.
Page No : 58-71
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Nutritional Counselling and Rest/ Recreation Counselling Methods Among Mothers In Cross River State, Nigeria
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This study was undertaken to investigate Nutritional counselling and family planning counselling methods among mothers in Cross River State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were drawn to direct the variables under study, also relevant literature was reviewed in line with the research objectives with most of the reviewed study supporting the theoretical framework. Ex post facto design was adopted for the study. The selection was done through the sampling and purposive sampling techniques. The reliability estimate was established through sampling and the purposive sampling technique. The reliability estimate of the instrument was established through the Cronbach Alpha reliability method. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was the statistic analysis technique adopted to test the hypotheses under study. All hypotheses were tested using a .05 level of significance. From the data analysis, the researcher investigated the research and offered in agreement with the study that nutritional and rest and recreational counselling afford mothers the opportunity to survive the precarious time of pregnancy and delivery. The researcher admitted in the study that motherhood is the reproductive period for women whose age ranges from18 years to 49 years old. The researcher admitted that there is a vulnerable age for most mothers and reproductive-aged women. The researcher in consonance with Wilkinson (2010) that poor infant outcomes have been linked with poor maternal nutrition these include inadequate developmental trajectories, low birth weight, and an increased risk of developing chronic disease later in life. Gaston and Cramp (2011) as proffered by the researcher admitted that women who are unaccustomed to exercising prior to pregnancy would not likely engage in an active lifestyle or start exercising during pregnancy.
