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The study was conducted to examine the Influence of Principals’ Decision Making Strategies on Students’ Discipline in Bauchi State Public Secondary Schools, Nigeria. The study was guided by seven research questions. This study was based on the Contingency Theory developed by Fielder’s 1970 which says that leaders’ ability to lead is contingent upon various situational factors. Descriptive research design was used in this study and Proportional stratified random sampling techniques was...

Introduction Despite the high burden of hearing loss (HL) globaly, most countries in resource limited settings lack infant hearing screening programs(IHS) for early HL detection. We examined the feasibility of establishing an IHS program in this setting, and in this pilot program measured the prevalence of infant hearing loss (IHL) and described the characteristics of the infants with HL. Methods We assessed feasibility of establishing an IHS program at a regional referral hospital in...

As teachers in Kenya begin to migrate from the classroom to virtual learning spaces following COVID 19 pandemic, there is pressing need to realign Teacher Education to requisite Knowledge, competences, skills, and attitudes that will support online teaching. This chapter explores these needs using a combination of lived experiences and literature review that captured a meta-analysis of research trends on e-learning. While trends in Teacher Education indicate progression towards adoption of...

This study investigated the influence of peer group on motivation towards chemistry and academic performance of Chemistry students in secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The research design used for the study was survey design of the descriptive type of research. The sample size of two hundred and ten (210) respondents was sampled for the study using random sampling technique. The respondents were selected from six (6) public secondary schools in Ikere...

Public and private universities in Uganda have been using Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) since early 2000s to support delivery of blended learning owing to the increased uptake of technology in many aspects of life, and the benefits of blended learning/eLearning. eLearning is of particular benefit to people with disabilities, since they may find it difficult to attend classes on a university campus. Accessibility of a VLE has a strong impact on user engagement and adoption and...

This paper investigates the contributions of community stakeholders in the co-production of female child education in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Female child education in Nigeria is associated with some complex issues, like cultural barriers, religious misinterpretations and poverty among rural dwellers, which pose serious challenge for policy makers and public managers. The idea of engaging citizens to make contributions in the design, management and implementation of public polices is called...

The study investigated influence of sports facilities and equipment on sports participation among secondary schools students in Ijero-Ekiti local government area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The design for the study was descriptive survey type of research. The target population for the study comprised of all public secondary schools students in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select fifty  (50) students from each of the five (5)...

This paper seeks to contribute to the droughts discourse through explaining the vulnerability of women to droughts by analysing the different livelihood strategies employed by women and their responses. The conservation of resources (COR) theory and ecological theory was applied to understand the issues of vulnerability, adaptation and coping with droughts. A qualitative approach was utilised through the application of semi-structured interviews, observation and document review tools....

The knowledge economy expansion has significantly affected the methodologies of knowledge transfer and skilling of human resource. The demand for skillful workforce is significant to the development of an ingenious educational approach to teaching and learning engineering. Integration of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning provides a number of endless interactive modernizations of training approaches to engineering processes and applications. The purpose of...

There is an upsurge in the use of mobile phones among higher education students in Ghana, which may result in the nomophobia prevalence with the students. Therefore, the need to assess the influence of nomophobia within the student population in Ghana. This descriptive cross-sectional study investigated the prevalence of nomophobia and the sociodemographic variables, and the association with academic achievement of the understudied population. A self-reporting nomophobia questionnaire,...

Although most micro-level studies show the positive impact of adaptation on food security and household income, these are only a few of the outcomes adaptation is intended to achieve. Farmers’ livelihoods function in complex ways such that an understanding the multidimensional outcome of adaptation is important. These necessitate the use of multiple indicators in the evaluation of the impact of adaptation. Based on data collected from 810 randomly selected households in central Ethiopia,...

completing education may have long-term negative effects on adolescents and younger children who may be greatly impacted by food insecurity and reduced dietary diversity

This chapter presents the analysis of the interactions in the context of knowledge acquisition and learning. Despite the different contesting approaches to knowledge acquisition, this chapter unveils the confusion prevailing in classrooms concerning the gaps and questions arising from knowledge that is asserted to be empirically verified. The observation sheets and notes were the primary sources of data gathered from the evaluation of lesson presentations conducted in classrooms, with the...

In the South African context, children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities are not accommodated in the compulsory education system, although steps are being taken in this direction in acknowledgement of their right to education. Critical to this development is the training of educators and caregivers. There is a paucity of studies from South Africa addressing the training of educators and caregivers. The Teacher Empowerment for Disability Inclusion (TEDI) project developed a...

This study aims at identifying the current cultural content in the first grade of high school English textbook (ordinary level) in Egypt & modifies it through extra educational values. This is because these values could protect our students according to the continuous emerging in our daily life. The method of utilized in this research is “critical discourse analysis” in order to trace extracted the footprints of the educational values & the cultural content that conceded in that...

This paper examined the attitudes of secondary school students towards the use of saying and words of wisdom in learning English as a foreign language in secondary schools in Gaza. Saying and words of wisdom play a significant role in language learning as a part of gaining cultural knowledge. In addition, this study attempted to find out whether they could motivate students to learn English then improve language acquiring through time. 40 secondary female EFL learners were assigned in...

La présente étude, menée au cours secondaire dans la commune de Parakou, a pour but d’étudier les réels mobiles de la faiblesse du niveau de langue des apprenants d’Anglais, langue étrangère en matière d’expression orale. La population cible de l'étude était composée des élèves de la classe de 2 nde , sélectionnés au hasard et de...

Before implementing the Competency-Based Approach (CBA) in 2003, the Algerian educational system was based on traditional teaching methods that focused mainly on acquiring the knowledge about language delivered by the teacher and the amount of information the learner could accumulate to pass the exams. Although CBA has shifted the teacher’s role from a knowledge transmitter to a facilitator and the learner from a passive recipient to an active participant, the teacher-centered paradigm still...