ABSTRACT Orthodox medical practice has brought about access to diagnosis and modern healthcare through the palliative care system to treat the terminally-ill, thereby improving their quality of life. This treatment of the terminally-ill utilises medical diagnostic interventions with little or no consideration for psychosocial supports and family integration which are at the core of the palliative care system. This study, therefore, investigated the psychosocial supports (diversional, behavio...
ABSTRACT Chemistry is one of the science subjects which are taught in Kenyan secondary schools. One of the objectives for teaching chemistry is to enable learners to use knowledge and skills acquired to solve problems in everyday life. Achievement of this objective depends on the methods and techniques employed by teachers during instruction. The method used can either enhance or hamper the learner’s interest in the subject and hence affect the overall performance of school learning. The K...
ABSTRACT Children born with HIV survive with the pain and fears that come with it. They face many challenges some of which may even be life threatening. This therefore, requires them to have a clear understanding of their status and an effective and reliable support system so that they can effectively deal with these challenges. Mashonaland West Province is one of the Provinces with the highest HIV prevalence, prostitution, early marriages and pregnancies, hence this research intends to bette...
ABSTRACT The focus of this research was on exploring the phenomenon of domestic violence perpetrated by men towards women. The research was inspired by the increasing incidences of women at State Universities and Zimbabwe as a whole who are being abused by men and therefore sought to get an understanding of the dynamics and trends of the phenomenon. The descriptive research design was used in order to describe the situation of domestic violence that is perpetrated by men on their spouses and ...
ABSTRACT This study‟s main focus area was to investigate the socio- economic effects of company closures. This research study is based on the background of numerous company closures across the globe and in Zimbabwe. Data was collected from the workers, company management, social services, nurses, police, councilors and teachers. Interviews and questionnaires were employed in the collection of data. The collected data was examined and interpreted. The study found out the majority of skilled ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the management effectiveness of continuing education centres in Ogun state. Basically, it focused on ascertaining the level of effectiveness of the coordinators of continuing education centres in managing learners' time, instruction process, human and material resources and its influence on learners' academic performance. In pursuance of the aim of the study, five research questions were raised and five hypotheses formulated and tested in the course of the stu...
Abstract This study was conducted to assess the impact of past adult literacy programmes on the educational attainment of the indigenes of the ten (10) villages of Gumbi District in Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Three populations were used. The first population was 361 educated persons in the ten villages; the second population was 425 ex-literacy programme participants, while the third one was 57 officials/community leaders. Three instruments were used in data collection. Th...
ABSTRACT This study sought to explore the implementation of health education to psychiatric patients in St Joseph Central Hospital in Bulawayo Metropolitan Province. A purposive sample of thirty participants from St Joseph Central Hospital out of a total of two hundred and fifty seven health care professionals who deliver health education to psychiatric patients was used. The qualitative research approach was employed in conducting the study. Thirty health care professionals were interviewe...
ABSTRACT HIV and AIDS have devastated many lives in various ways including nutrition deficiency but nutrition gardens can provide a rock solid solution to nutrition problems of PLWHA. Identified problems include frequent illness which are nutrition related, failure to send children to school, inability to sustain the general needs of families and failure to contribute to community development meaningfully. Data was collected from nutrition garden participants, city council officials, NGO rep...
Abstract This research study, “An investigation into Job Satisfaction and how it Impacts on Job Performance” focused on Bikita Rural District Secondary Schools. It was guided by the following objectives: to identify the effects of teacher attitudes to job performance, and to establish the influence played by both motivation and schools’ working conditions to teacher job satisfaction and teacher job performance. A qualitative approach to the study was adopted where both questionnaires a...
Background to the Study The modern foundation of adult education in Nigeria was laid by the British in 1941, in the account of Anyanwu (1980:17-18). He states that the outbreak of the Second World War brought a change in the attitudes of the British Government towards literacy education. His Majesty's Government decided to extend education to a large number of Nigerians. Then, on the 13" of July 1943, the British House of Commons was formally informed by Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, the Secretary...
ABSTRACT This study was primarily aimed at assessing the organisational effectiveness of the National and State Agencies for Mass Literacy Adult and Non-formal education in Nigeria which have been established to bridge the access, cost and quality gap that existed in the Nigerian educational sector. The study examined the extent to which some identified organisational / management variables have determined the level with which these agencies have been performing towards achieving their organi...
ABSTRACT The girl child is still facing serious challenges after dropping out of school. To gain an insight on the problem, the study sought to investigate the problems faced by the girl child after dropping out of school. In carrying out the study, the problems faced by the girl child, implications after dropping out, policies in place for retention girls in school, as well as the possible solutions were explored. From the review of literature on school dropout in relation to the girl child...
Abstract The study evaluated prison education in Lagos State, examining the factors, appropriateness and adequacy of the curricula with regard to motivating the inmates to learn the use of appropriate methods, adequacy of learning and teaching materials, effects of funding on the advancement of prison education goals and the types of prison education available, and proposed measures for making the prison education system in Lagos State more goal-oriented. The study population consisted of inm...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to compare the programmes available in Anglophone and Francophone Africa for the training of adult educators. Ghana and Nigeria were selected representative Anglophone Countries, and Zaire and the Congo were chosen from among Francophone Countries. The study focussed on the following aspects of the training of Adult Educators: The major policies underlying the training of adult educators in the selected countries. The roles assigned to formal and non-fo...