Abstract COVID 19 has thrown a new challenge to tutors in the colleges of education in Ghana. The purpose of this study was to examine tutors’ readiness in the use of virtual/digital learning classrooms in the Colleges of Education in Ghana. The study employed an analytical survey design. The study targeted tutors in the colleges of education in Ghana. The sample size for the study was 590 (495 tutors and 95 students). Focused group discussion was used to validate the data obtained from the...
ABSTRACT This study aims to determine the effects of mobile phones utilization to the academic performances of students in Almeria National High School. There are 60 respondents compromising 10 randomly selected students from six sections in Grade 10. The researchers used survey method to gather information by giving questionnaires during their vacant time to avoid class disturbance. The data were statistically analyzed and descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage were consider...
The present study seeks to analyze Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novel The Doors ofEden (2020) to describe how posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism cango hand-in-hand in contemporary speculative fiction. The novel itself isa masterpiece in world-building where the action takes place against thebackground of an eternally proliferating multiversal reality. Parallel worlds,sentient monsters, posthuman, non-human entities abound in the novel, andthis will be seen as complementary and conducive to the ...
The study will attempt to analyze Ian McEwan‘s novel Machines Like Me (2019) to explore issues related to the question of whether it ispossible to found a meaningful relationship between man and machine in a culture which is inching towards a Transhuman or Posthuman state while also focusing on the issue that how the very definition of ‗human‘ is bound to undergo a radical shift in an environment where machines not just mimic and flawlessly replicate their human counterparts in many res...
The article endeavors to show how in post-apocalyptic fiction the traditional religious,historical and cultural tropes can prove to be powerful enough to capture and embody theenormously complex and extremely ambiguous worldview of the narrative. Despite most suchideas of the past getting gradually bracketed, effaced and relegated to the background thetraditional cultural religious and literary tropes often continue to exert significant influence oneven a post-apocalyptic world thus refusing ...
The present article endeavors to study Stephen Baxter’s two novels, namely World Engines: Destroyer (2019)and World Engines: Creator (2020), in order to analyze the role of agential realism of the autopoietic, selfaware machines in creating and sustaining a post-anthropocentric and posthuman world. Also, since the novelsare set against the backdrop of a continuously proliferating manifold of parallel worlds, the study will attemptto show how adopting a post-anthropocentric viewpoint can hel...
The study seeks to analyze Jeff Vander Meer’s ‘Borne’ (2017) and ‘Dead Astronauts’ (2019) to describe how the shaping power of monstrosity, weirdness, complexity, and grotesquery in a post-apocalyptic setting can best be appreciated once one applies certain religious tropes for the analysis of the unfolding of the events in the novel. In post-apocalyptic settings of the novels mentioned above, Biblical tropes can help connect the present situation to a past that otherwise exists as ...
ABSTRACT Degradation of local indigenous culture is a problem that is prevailing everywhere on the African continent, and other developing countries. There has been great loss of local indigenous culture in the developing countries and absorbing of the western culture. Media in itself is a ve1y powerful force in this 21 st centmy. Technological advancement of the media has made the world a global village, making interaction of people and culture much easier and faster. The western countries b...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of Guidance and counseling on academic performance of mentally challenged children in Ainabkoi Division, Eldoret East District Kenya. The specific objective of the study were to investigate the impact of guidance and counseling on academic performance of learners with mental retardation children; identify the methods of counseling that are effective on mentally retarded children; and identify the causes of mental retardation ...
Table of Contents Table of Contents ......... ............................... ..... ..................... ... .......................... .i Declaration .............................. ..................................................................... .ii Acknowledgement .................................................................................. .iii Dedication ................................................................................................... .iv Chapter One: 1.1 Back...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of community participation on performance of administration in Apac district . The researcher used the objective of the study to establish the findings on the ground which was to examine how decision making affect performance of school Administration and the effects of management committee on performance of school administration in Apac district. The study also found out the extend to the community resources affects performance...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the causes of primary school drop out. Specific Objectives of the study were to investigate the relationship between poverty and primary school drop out, Determine the school factors that lead to primary school drop out, Detennine the relationship between attitudes and primary school drop out, Investigate the relationship between cultural practices and school drop out, Determine the relationship between indiscipline and primary school drop ...
ABSTRACT The paper examines the role of the media in dealing with the problem facing street children. Taking Kinondoni district in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, as a case study. I contend that not enough has been done to address the problem of street children; the problem of street children is a nuisance and burden to many developing societies. Street children come as a result of poverty, broken marriages and homes, unwanted pregnancies, abandoning of babies at birth, prostitution and disabili...
ABSTRACT When the NARC government in Kenya assumed power at the beginning of 2003, after handing KANU a resounding defeat, it did make its pre~election pledge of Free Primary Education (FPE) a reality. This resulted in increased enrolment at basic education level with the numbers rising from 5.9 million pupils to 7.2 million by end of 2003. Though the move was applauded by many, key issues that seemed to reverse these gains is taking root in the zone, where children are abandoning school at w...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of television and drug consumption on secondary school students in Kiambu, central province. The main objectives were to examine the influence of television and drug consumption; to determine the challenges of television influence on drug consumption; to investigate the effects of drug consumption on the academic performance of students; and to suggest possible solutions that the television media can help improve the drug consumption. The re...