Technology is now the real environment shaper of school design.-Spurgeon, 1998: 46a. Architects, designers, and facility planners are under both societal and academic pressure to design and build university classrooms that support rapidly emerging "technological learning environments" (Carlson, 2002; Kettinger, 1991; Report of the IT Review Committee, 2001; and Zandvliet and Straker, 2001). Their major goal is to consider "providing an environment designed to enhance a student's ability to under... read more

Language is a code, a vehicle through which thoughts and creativity are conveyed. English language is not an exception. The arrival of Europeans at Badagry in the early 18th century marked the beginning of modern or western education in Nigeria. The Europeans were mostly English speaking concentrated on enlightening the people, teaching them to read and write. As a means of spreading the gospel, they therefore built school wherever land was available and there was adherents. The primary objecti... read more

Poverty is human condition characterized by hunger and malnutrition, poor health, lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation, lack of participation in education, lack of marketable skills, insecurity and vulnerability. These hardships have subsequent resulted in high scale of poverty. To look at the majority of the people show wide spread miserly because their standard of living has deteriorated due to low income and hunger, only few people have opportunity to acquire educ... read more

The background of a child in primary school can affect the child’s study behaviour in one-way or the other. The pupils who came from education and rich home will have interest in their studies with the hope to perform excellently well in their examinations. The status of the family determines the types of education of a child can receive from the parents. The child can become a deviant or a good child in development which is factors for school education could be g... read more

The researcher intends to assess the roles of Social studies teacher in the introduction of sex education to Junior Secondary School Students in selected Local Government Area of Lagos state. It is fact that when parents send their children to school, they have something in mind. An average Nigeria parent regards education of his child as a means to and end and not an end itself. This implies that education is viewed in term of the economic benefit to be derived from it. The aim of ... read more

Marriage is an institution ordained by God which has been in existences since creation. It is an essential step towards family formation. However, it varies from one culture to another. It is through marriage that new rights roles and new social relationship are formed between families of the spouses. Family systems past and present are established on their performance of the basic social functions of child bearing; child rearing and the regulations of sexual behaviour. In a tradition... read more

Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State. The instrument use is questionnaire to elicit information from one hundred and twenty pupils randomly selected from the six schools in Egbeda Local Government. The researcher made use of the percentage method to analyse the data collected for the study. The following research questions were also asked. i. Is there any relationship between child labour and pupils academic performance. ii. Is there any relationship be... read more

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This study analyzed the effects of teaching techniques on effective teaching and learning of English Language in Osogbo Local Government. The specific objectives were to identify the effects of teaching techniques with emphasis on demonstration and discussion methods and analyzed the effects of teaching techniques among the junior secondary school students. Three schools were chosen purposely for this study. From each of these schools, twenty students were chosen at random making a total of sixt... read more

This research was carried out to analyse the effects of instructional materials on the academic performances of students in secondary schools in Olorunda Local Government of Osun State. For the study, the sample consisted of one hundred and fifty students were randomly selected from five different secondary schools with ten students representing each class of the junior secondary schools and each class in the senior secondary schools. The data collection instrument was the questionnaire and per... read more

In-service Teachers refers to teacher involves schooling and working at the same time. An inservice program is a professional training or staff development effort, where professionals are trained and discuss their work with others in their peer group. It is a key component of continuing medical education for physicians, pharmacists, and other medical professionals. It is also common among public servants including educators and public safety officials. In-service program also refers to ... read more

It is a widely accepted fact that the main pointer to social and technological advancement of any community is the level of educational development of its citizens. The role that education plays in the improvement of the quality of people’s lives, acceleration of economic growth, harnessing of human intellect and potentials, realization of political stability, appreciation of tolerance and the institution of peace and unity, cannot be quantified. (Jasada, 1999). Education is an important means... read more

The purpose of this study was to assess the factors responsible for pupils’ lateness to public primary schools, with particular reference to Makurdi local government area of Benue state, Nigeria. Three research questions were structured and analyzed using simple percentages for answers to the research questions. A Sample of 5 public primary schools comprising 250 pupils, 100 parents and 50 teachers were randomly selected with regard to their geographical location across the local government ar... read more

The teacher of Biology has been facing a lot of problems especially in secondary school in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. The problems at this level had resulted into many other problems confronting the students of higher institutions of learning, with what has been experienced in the past and present about the side of seriousness of the students to Biology motivated me to focus attention on the problems encountered by the students and teachers alike as regards Biology. Also, this... read more

One of the major problems facing Nigerian education especially in Konshisha Local Government Area today is search for accurate ways to learning. Education is taken to crises which very few of us seem to realize in Nigeria today. When one talks about education in Nigeria today, it is easily nearly the same with what Dore (1976) simply put “the diploma disease”. There is a very serious problem in a system secondary education where over 90% of the people are merely passing through education to ... read more

Education is a veritable tool for the survival and continuity of a people as a distinct group capable of asserting their identity according to Akume, G.T (2004). Orhungur (1990) maintained, the task of education belongs to the entire community where certain agencies are charged with the responsibility. Before the advent of Western education, the traditional society educational role was mainly handled by the home and family. However, modern civilization has changed the status quo by formalizin... read more

Illiteracy or an illiterate person according to Ralinema (1995) is one who lives in a state of primary or remote consciousness, subliminal of his roles in society. He is a passive object of history submerged by the exigencies of his daily life. He is paralyzed by his sense of importance an phobia and he is enslaved ignorance of his capacity and potentialities as a human being. He is unable to comprehend the situation or environment which envelops him therefore is powerless to act for his freedom... read more

Most people say that health is wealth; this means that, to be healthy means to be rich. However, it may sound mysterious how health is wealth. This can be seen in such a way that, many rich people spend huge amount of money to acquire health but end up in permanent sickness, then, it can be understand that, a person who is not rich will also be healthy. There exist numerous problems which are fighting against the effective teaching of health education in schools and colleges of... read more

History had it that, women in the past practiced family planning called “Natural method of family planning”. The method of family planning emphasized on observing the menstrual period and avoiding sexual intercourse until the menstrual cycle is over. In the modern technology, it has brought some other methods of family planning which the women and even girls are practicing them to the highest degree. However, it is impossible for illiterate women to adapt the modern method of family plann... read more