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Using Field Trips and Worksheets to Assist JHS 1 Learners of a Basic School in Assin Atonsu Address Their Refusal to Accept the Concept of Malaria Taught In School
Get PDFThe committee s commitments to visit basic school in the Assin community to strengthen good health led to the discovery of JHS 1 pupils misconceptions about the concept of malaria Mr Charles Nuamah the WASH committee chairman and Miss Ruby Jecty the secretary both of Foso College of Education observed Miss Linda Kwofie a student teacher on establishing teaching go through a hectic time facilitating the causes and prevention of malaria Despite the striking information on Malaria discussed with the learners these JHS 1 learners did not make the attempt to understand the concept of malaria taught in the school because of some superstitious beliefs about the disease held religiously in the community As malaria threatens human health and WASH has health component as its focus the authors saw it as a responsibility to research on Malaria and collate the information into a learner friendly package accompanied by appropriate strategies to challenge these misconceptions Action research design which concerns itself with investigating challenges faced by a group of people and finding immediate resultant strategies to remedy them informed the use of purposive sampling and census techniques to involve all twenty eight JHS 1 learner
THREE INNOVATIVE WAYS OF DEALING WITH SANITATION PROBLEMS IN BASIC SCHOOLS IN ASSIN CENTRAL DISTRICT, CENTRAL REGION, GHANA
Get PDFThis paper, initiated by three members of the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Health) committee in Foso College of Education, was aimed at examining how the implementation of three innovative ways will impact positively on school sanitational habits and their effect on teaching and learning. The study was conducted in three schools in the Assin North Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. The pupils were selected from different classes through the purposive sampling and census techniques to participate in the study due to the gravity of the problem identified there. Since the problem was a school issue that required immediate attention, action research design was used. The data collection procedure occurred in three stages; pre-intervention stage, intervention stage and post-intervention stage. A pre-intervention observation chart was designed to record the pupils’ attitude towards sanitation. Intervention activities were carried out after the pre-intervention observation using the following strategies: Introducing the Picking Sticks and Class Waste Bins, Recycling Empty Water Sachets into Raincoats to Enhance Punctuality to School during Rainy Seasons and Turning Decompose Waste into Organic Manure. Three student members of the WASH Club of Foso College of Education, an initial teacher training institution, were selected during their consolidating teaching implement the innovative strategies under the supervision of Miss Comfort Arthur, for the lower primary; Miss Ruby Jecty, for the upper primary and Mr. Charles Appiah Nuamah, for the junior high school. During the intervention stage, the pupils were taken through three weeks of sanitation-conscious activities to promote good sanitational hygiene through talk for learning, peer collaboration, hands-on activities to mention but a few. A post-intervention observation was conducted after the intervention to find out the impact of the intervention on pupils’ attitude towards school sanitation. This research type helped the study to identify the causes of pupils’ inability to maintain their environment clean as lack of waste bins, no strict measures to check it, lack of education and common practice in the nation. It was discovered that consciously making learners aware of good sanitational practices helped learners to maintain good sanitational hygiene. Apart from the observation, an interview was used to collect data on pupils’ perception and impression of the activities embarked upon. The data collected showed that when school sanitation practices are effective, learners’ health and academic performances are enhanced in a relaxed condition while their thinking ability is stimulated. Prior to the interventions, the pupils held the notion that there was no need to be particular about school sanitational hygiene. Apart from the peculiar sanitation problem identified in each school, in all three schools, there was an emission of a very strong stench resulting from open fluid excretion everywhere on the school compound. Because of the pressing demand of this fluid excretion, most pupils will be seen rushing out of their classrooms, or during break times and as characteristic of most of the basic schools, where there are neither no urinals or the places are woefully unclean, these pupils are left with no options but to expose themselves and urinate anywhere found convenient on the compound, most often visible to other pupils. This called for temporary washrooms to be constructed in each school. Miss Comfort Arthur who identified the problems researched into the causes, effects and the solutions, and organized the findings into this write-up, the intervention procedures were designed by Mr. Charles Appiah Nuamah designed the interventions to remedy each of the three problems and prepared the final script and finally the results from the pre- intervention, intervention post-intervention procedures were analyzed by Miss Ruby Jecty. The funding for publication was from the Book and Research Allowance paid by the government to tutors of colleges of education in November, 2019. Article visualizations
Mastering Adinkra Symbols: An Establishment of Positive Ghanaian Personality in the Next Generation
Get PDFAdinkra symbols one of the oldest of all art forms reaching back to prehistoric times are an important determiner of cultural mutuality among Ghanaians Adinkra symbols and their meanings have a positive impact on instilling in Ghanaians the pride of identifying themselves as Ghanaians and holding on to it Well-meaning Ghanaians and important stakeholders in education who are rooted in tradition are keen at being equipped with possibilities of providing a re-orientation of the cultural values among learners if there is the need to present what was good in ancient eyes and move forward undeterred to make a better tomorrow Human beings as products of the many different cultures which surround us can never be seen as culture free Adinkra symbols and their meanings if embedded in any form of teaching have the potential of fostering emotional and cultural intelligence in alienated Ghanaians to return to the glorious past so as to re-validate viable values contextualize and consolidate them for today avert the mistakes of the past and confront tomorrow with such lasting eternal values that can make the nation active in a world where values are no longer constan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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