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Influence of Environmental Factors on Career Choice of Secondary School Students in Ilorin Metropolis: Towards Enhancing Emotional Well-being of Adolescents
Get PDFThis study investigated the influence of environmental factors on careerchoice of secondary school students in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state. Thestudy also examined whether moderating variables such as class level, classtype and gender would affect the respondents’ views. The populationconsisted of 800 secondary school students that were randomly selectedfrom Ilorin Metropolis. The researchers employed descriptive survey methodfor the study. The instrument used was a self-designed questionnaire titled“Career choice Questionnaire (CCQ).The t-test and Analysis of Variance(ANOVA) at 0.05 alpha level were used to test the hypotheses. The resultrevealed that environmental factors have a positive influence on career choice of secondary school students in Ilorin Metropolis. Also, there was nosignificant difference on the influence of environmental factors on careerchoice of secondary school students in Ilorin Metropolis on the bases ofclass level, gender and class type. Secondary school Counsellors shouldprovide career guidance to learners on a continual basis during theirsecondary school education, so as to make adequate career choices and toenhance their emotional well-being, was recommended. 
An Exposition of The Relevance of Local Governments in the Administration of Grassroot in Nigeria
Get PDFThe focus of this paper is to reiterate the need for the existence and notscrapping of Local Governments as the third tier of Government in Nigeria.There are presently three levels of governance in the country today. Due tothe way Local Governments are being handled by the politicians, especially,the State Chief Executive, Governors and the leadership of political parties,which has made this third tier of Government to be almost irrelevant, a lotof debate is going on concerning whether to scrap the Local Governmentsystems completely and concentrate on the remaining two tiers viz; Federaland State or not.This paper looks into the origin of the local governments as aconstitutional creation and examined its sources of funding as well as broughtout the special duties statutorily allocated to this third tier, in comparisonwith the three arms of government – Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary– each working without disturbing the others. Problems with the localgovernment system as currently ran in Nigeria and why they are seeminglyineffective was also expensed. The piece finally submits that since theLocal Governments as the statutory third tier of Government in Nigeria isthe closest to the people at the grass root, and democracy has been defined as government of the people, by the people and for the people, the armmust rather be strengthened instead of being scrapped. 
Personal and Socio-Economic Factors and Women’s Participation in the Administrative and Planning Process in Nigerian Universities
Get PDFInvestigations into factors that affect the administrative and planning processon women participation in Nigerian universities have attracted the interestand concern of researchers, university administrators, educational plannersand stakeholders in educational sector in Nigeria. Different factors arecapable of influencing the administrative and planning process of womenparticipation such as home-school conflict, professional leadership styleand financial constraints. One research question was posed and four researchhypotheses were formulated while a total number of 120 femaleadministrators and planners were randomly sampled from four (4) publicuniversities in Nigeria. A questionnaire was designed and used to collectdata from the sampled respondents. Pearson Product Moment CorrelationCo-efficient and multiple regressions were used to analyze the collecteddata at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that there was asignificant relationship among professional leadership styles, home-schoolconflicts and financial constraint at 0.543; 0.467 and 0.515 respectivelyand women’s participation in administrative and planning process in Nigerianpublic universities. It is, therefore, recommended that women should gain leadershipexperience on how to organize themselves better for effective contribution towardsadministrative and planning processes in Nigerian universities
Addressing Academic Stress with Emotional Intelligence: A Counsellor’s Perspective
Get PDFStress is a state of physiological and psychological disequilibrium whichhas devastating and debilitating effects on individuals. Students experienceacademic stress with the great source from test-taking, studying forexaminations, grade competition, completion of assignment, workload etc.Inability to manage stress effectively results in prevalence of failure, poorperformance, truancy, drop-outs, lack of motivation, feeling of inadequacy,frustration and dejection among students. In view of this, the emotionalintelligence competencies of self-awareness and self-management areconsidered for managing academic stress under this study. This papertherefore examines the concepts of stress, academic stress, emotionalintelligence and its competencies. Finally, the paper recommends that allstudents should be equipped with emotional intelligence competencies soas to manage academic stress in a healthy manne
Gender and Occupational Tenure as Correlates of In-Service English Language Teachers’ Interest in their Professional Development in Selected Nigerian Schools
Get PDFNo educational system can rise above the quality of its teaching force. Teacherslacking in enthusiasm for professional development cannot be expected toperform their duties satisfactorily in the face of the myriad of challenges ofand rapid changes in the characteristics of the 21st Century students. Amongthe factors found in literature to influence language teachers’ interest in theirprofessions are gender and occupational tenure. This study thereforeinvestigated the relationship between each of the two selected variables(gender and occupational tenure) and the interest of the English Languageteachers in Ibadan metropolis in pursuing professional development. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to get a total of one hundred andthirty-three teachers served with copies of a fifteen-item questionnaire titledTeachers’ Perception of Teaching adapted from Faniran and Olatunji2011. Frequency Counts, percentages and chi-square statistical tools wereemployed to analyse the data collected in testing the two null hypothesesformulated. Findings from this study have shown that though more of the maleEnglish Language teachers than their female counterparts have higher degrees,the former are less enthusiastic about professional development. Also, most ofthe teachers lose more interest in their jobs as they grew older in the professio
Appraisal of Tablet of Knowledge (Opon Imo) New Digital Concept of Reading: Issues and Perspectives
Get PDFThis study seeks to evaluate what the Education Managers termed “unusualtransformation” of education in Osun State, Nigeria and looks at itspracticality in view of the past and existing challenges confronting educationin the State. A look was made into the reading habits and the reasons studentsare not reading as well as the need for the new concept of e-learning adoptedby the State Government of Osun State (Nigeria) Secondary Schools. Afterappraising the new concept, probable challenges were highlighted andsolutions were made. Recommendations as to how the new program couldbe handled better for general acceptability among the stakeholders were given. 
Comparative Analysis of Social Studies Academic Achievement of Private and Public Junior Secondary Schools’ Students in Ibadan North Local Goverment Area of Oyo State, Nigeria
Get PDFAcademic performance which is the outcome of teaching-learning processcould be influenced by many factors including school ownership. This studycomparatively analyzed Social Studies students’ academic performance inprivate and public secondary schools in Ibadan-North, Oyo State (2007-2011). A descriptive survey design using pro-forma on Junior Secondary SchoolSocial Studies results from 2007 to 2011 was adopted for the study. Asample of three thousand two hundred and forty-four (3,244) studentswas selected from both Public and Private Junior secondary schools in IbadanNorth Local Government through simple random sampling technique. Threeresearch hypotheses were set for the study. It was found that there was asignificant difference in the performances of private and public schoolstudents (3.88> 1.96),there was significant difference in the performanceof male and female students (0.29 <1.96) and there was significantdifference in the performances of male and female students in public Juniorschools (0.09 < 1.96). It was therefore recommended that all JuniorSecondary School teachers should see results of their students inexaminations as challenges and try to improve on that especially on SocialStudies. Comparison of students’ results should be encouraged by school administrators and proprietors to ensure better academic performance infuture
Training the Trainer: Preparing Teachers for Effective Implementation of Drama in Education as Methodology
Get PDFTeacher training is a very germane prerequisite for anybody that intends tobe a teacher, especially currently that professionalism in this field is theorder of the day. Since the abolition of the Grade 1 and 2, National Certificateof Education (NCE) has become the minimum requirement in teaching.While some teachers proceed to universities to obtain Degrees (B.ED),others are comfortable in their practice with the NCE. To bridge this gap,the government and relevant bodies organize periodic trainings to renew,revitalize and re-engineer the enthusiasm and zeal of teachers. This hasbecome necessary to meet the mounting needs and demands of the learner,technology and other social factors. This was the background for carryingout this research in Badagry Local Government of Lagos State. The study isset out to re-introduce Drama in Education (DIE) and ensure its effectiveimplementation in select schools. Subsequently, training sessions will beorganized to rekindle latent talents and creativity in teachers participating inthe study by encouraging them to adopt DIE as a viable tool during teachingand learning sessions. It is also expected that there would be a considerableimpact of this methodology in the academic performance of learners. 
Critical Discourse Analysis of The Punch and The Guardian Newspaper Reports on the FOI Bill
Get PDFThis study investigates the way news writers in selected Nigerian newspapersemployed language to express their underlying interests in the Freedom ofInformation (FOI) bill which engaged Nigerians’ attention from 1999 to2011. For the bill’s social relevance, the media and other pressure groupsdemanded that it should be signed into an Act by the Federal Governmentbut the Government refused because it perceived information as a meansof power control. Nigerians canvassed for the bill’s approval in order to beempowered to ask questions about the way they were governed, while theFederal Government believed that the Act would make journalists haveunhindered access to information which they might deploy indiscriminatelyin exposing perceived corrupt practices in the country. Data for the workwere derived from The Punch and The Guardian newspapers which widelypublished reports on the Bill between 2007 and 2008 and Critical DiscourseAnalysis (CDA) was engaged as the theoretical framework because of itspotential to reveal the news writers’ ideological positions on the bill. Analysisshowed that framing, idioms, rhetoric, referencing and words and expressionsof anger, doubt and rejection were among the linguistic strategies deployedin the news writers’ reports to help accelerate the bill’s approval. 
Eradicating Examination Malpractices in Nigeria: Theatre/ Drama as a Panacea
Get PDFExamination malpractice or academic dishonesty is a major challenge toexamination and examination administration all over the world. It is anepidemic in Nigeria. This affects the standards of education, the worth ofcertificates issued at the end of the examinations and the integrity of Nigerianeducational institutions’ products. Examination malpractices’ impacts andimplications go deeper into the society’s core and last for a very long timewhile its consequences are debilitating and all-encompassing. As a resultof these factors, there have been many efforts and measures taken to tacklethis menace but all seemed not to have been able to tame this monstrousexamination malpractice bogey. This paper explores the possibility ofthinking outside of the box in tackling this problem. It suggests using theatre/drama as means of combating this challenge. This will be done through thevehicle of schools’ drama, television drama, drama texts and feature films.