ABSTRACT This study conducted a psycho-social analysis of breast cancer focusing on variables such as prevalence of the disease within the study area, awareness and perception about it and perception of the various intervention techniques designed to control the spread of the disease. The research work was limited to Lagos State, using selected local government areas in the State. The research designs employed were the descriptive survey design coupled with the qualitative research design. A...
Background to the Study Availability of information resources plays a major role in teaching and learning. For effective teaching to take place information resources must be provided and teachers must have access to various types of resources particularly in their areas of specialization. This will not only broaden their knowledge base but also prepare them ahead of the challenges that may face them in the course of imparting knowledge. A variety of activities that are performed by teachers ...
Abstract This study investigated the assessment and remediation of some perceived difficult concepts in mathematics among selected students in some Lagos State Senior Secondary Schools.
ABSTRACT The study undertook an assessment and management of commitment and conflict experienced by educated stay-at-home mothers in Lagos state, Nigeria. It is pertinent to note that conflict refers to low self-esteem, lack of effective family relationship, loss in terms of identity and financial independence. A quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, control group design was adopted for the study. The initial sample consisted of 150 educated mothers comprising 75 working mothers and 75 sta...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of two behaviour modification strategies namely: Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Life Skills Education on assessment and management of psychosocial and academic problems of working secondary school students in Lagos State, Nigeria. A total of one hundred and eighty working secondary school students (84 males and 96 females) with mean age of 13.78 years were identified from the initial sample of six hundred stude...
Abstract The main objective of this study was to investigate the awareness and adoption patterns of adult education teaching methods, use of
Abstract Guidance and Counselling is usually designed to achieve certain ends for a particular society. It is therefore practised within a frame work of values and goals. Guidance and Counselling cannot therefore successfully be practised in the Nigerian setting without a synthesis of the values and ultimate goals of its services. The major problem tackled by the present study is what Guidance Counsellors' value commitments are in the Nigerian setting where Guidance and Counselling has been w...
ABSTRACT The need to produce an enriched uniform curriculum with a view to replacing the existing curricula of the private Islamic schools located in the South-west of Nigeria served as the impetus to carry-out this study. In addition, the study came up as a scientific procedure initiative to facilitate the integration of the private Islamic schools as stipulated in the National Policy on Education. Having elaborated on the need in terms of justification, the study took two giant steps, namel...
ABSTRACT The study ascertained the extent to which Non-Governmental Organizations' culture influence on staff quality (i.e., commitment and motivation) as well as to determine the contributions of NGOs culture and effective programme delivery and achievement of non-formal education goals. The study was limited to sixty non-governmental organizations involved in non-formal education delivery in Lagos State, with the management and staff of these organizations serving as respondents. The bene...
Abstract This study investigated the implementation of the Junior Secondary School (JSS) music curriculum in Kwara State, Nigeria; determined the extent to which the Junior Secondary School (JSS) music curriculum has been implemented and how far it had achieved it desired curriculum aims and objectives. The study also identified problem areas 111 implementation of music as a school subject in the JSS curriculum and prescribed constructive strategies for curriculum improvement 111order to prod...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of this study was to investigate factors and challenges that hindered effective teaching of mathematics for understanding in senior secondary schools in the Omusati Education Region. The study investigated the way teaching mathematics for understanding approaches were applied in the teaching of mathematics classrooms in selected senior secondary schools. Further, the study attempted to establish necessary support and / or training opportunities that mathematics tea...
ABSTRACT Several countries recognised the importance of websites usage in education for teaching and learning. In Namibia, the use of websites in teaching remains limited. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of usage of websites to teach the topic of transport system in humans in Biology as a school subject at a selected rural high school in Omusati Region in Namibia. The study adopted a qualitative approach using single case study. A sample size of three Biology teach...
ABSTRACT Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.), an indigenous African legume valued for its drought tolerance, is popular in most parts of Africa. The study aimed to study environment effects on six landraces of Bambara groundnut (Nam 1759/3, Uniswa Red, S19/3, KFBN 9709, KFBN0105 and KFBN 0116) and to evaluate their molecular and nutritional compositions. The effects of different sowing dates and watering regimes on the growth and development of the landraces were studied. There...
ABSTRACT The application of computers has become an integral part of the present-day society, including Namibia, to the extent that the skill to use a computer is a major requirement for many vocations and it contributes to efficiency in many others. The introduction of computers in education is a large-scale complex innovation in which many obstacles need to be overcome before successful implementation can take place (Plomp & Pelgrum, 1993). The MBESC (1999: 2) introduced the Computer Pract...
ABSTRACT The need to explore the Vakwangali traditional clothing as an inspiration for designing fashion clothing arose from acquired knowledge and understanding that intersections exist between traditional clothing and fashion design. It also began from observations that while such intersections seem to have resulted in the development of fashion clothing from traditional clothing among, for example, Ovaherero and Aawambo of Namibia, it is puzzling as to why the same have not occurred among...