scholarly journals Science Education as an Instrument for the Enhancement of National Security in Nigeria.

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-209
Author(s):  
Regina I. E.
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
National Security ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

Education is conceived to be a life-long learning process that begins with the birth and ends with the death of a person. Education has equally been defined as a process by which individuals are assisted formally through proper direction and guidance to develop their capacities for their own benefit and that of the society. Science education on the other hand is a field of study that exposes learners to the contents as well as the methodology (processes) of acquiring scientific knowledge for practical application in relevant and applicable areas of life endeavours.This paper critically examined the dimensions of national security in Nigeria, the essence of government vis-à-vis citizens expectation, the definition of national security, the issue of insecurity, the many security challenges bedeviling the country and how Science education as an instrument can be used for the enhancement of national security in Nigeria. Since national security is important for national development, it is therefore meaningless to talk of development in the absence of national security. In otherwords, insecurity in a nation is a treat to development. In a state of insecurity, development is as elusive as a mirage. Useful recommendations were also made.

scholarly journals Utilization of Science Education for Promoting National Security in Nigeria: A Study of Ebonyi State.

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-253
Author(s):  
David A. U.
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
National Security ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
State College ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Science Laboratories ◽  
Research Questions

National Security has been a serious issue in Nigeria. The nation is faced with a host of complex security challenges, ranging from violent extremism and insurgency to piracy, kidnapping for ransom, herdsmen menace, attacks on oil infrastructure, drug trafficking, organized crime, etc. Several efforts have been made by national security agencies to provide effective and enduring security mechanisms, yet, the problem of national insecurity has remained unabated. This study examined the utilization of Science Education for promoting National security in Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted case study research design. The population comprised 322 students of the School of Sciences of Ebonyi State College of Education Ikwo. The entire population was used for the study. The instrument used for quantitative data collection was a researcher-made structured questionnaire which was validated by three experts in Science Education. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha reliability estimate with overall index of 0.77. The research questions were answered using mean with standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using t-test. The study found that Science Education can effectively be utilized (X = 3.78) in promoting National security in Nigeria. The study also identified some factors such as inadequate funding, lack of well-equipped science laboratories, among others (X = 3.89) that hinder effective utilization of Science Education for promoting National security in Nigeria. The researcher recommended among other things that Science Education should be given priority in the National education policy so as to enhance National security in Nigeria.

Socio-Scientific Issues and Model-Based Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-297
Author(s):  
Benzegül Durak ◽  
Mustafa Sami Topçu
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Scientific Phenomena ◽  
Hand Modeling

This chapter aims to provide a literature analysis on socio-scientific issues and model-based learning. The position of socio-scientific issues in the process of raising science literate students is indisputable. On the other hand, modeling gives students opportunities to construct their own models and use them through the learning process to formulate hypothesis, make investigations, explain scientific phenomena, and communicate and justify their ideas. Therefore, embedding modeling practice to SSI-based instruction through a framework is an innovative tool for scientific literacy in science education.

The Development of the Study of War in Greece Since 1989

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-139
Author(s):  
Zisis Fotakis
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Greek Historiography ◽  
The Many

This report focuses on the study of the – other than Naval – War History in Greece since 1989. It presents the corresponding work of the Greek Ministry of Defense and its associated bodies and that of the Greek academia and non-professionals, whose quantity has been overwhelming. It also points out the strengths and limitations of the corresponding Greek historiography, its utility for national and practical purposes and the neccessity for its thematical and chronological broadening. It concludes that the study of War in Greece is set to develop further, if only because of the many, chronic security challenges that this country is facing.

Ageing Accidents: Suggestion for a Definition and Examples From Damaged Platforms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Ersdal ◽  
John Sharp ◽  
David Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Failure Rate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Offshore Installations ◽  
Structural Failures ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Structural Engineers

An increasing number of offshore installations are in the life extension stage of life, resulting in a growing concern among structural engineers about ageing related issues. However, structural engineers are often asked if there is experience of any ageing accidents or if there are examples of such. A safety conscious person would then reply that theory points towards a growing failure rate and hence that ageing accidents will eventually occur. Good engineering practice would then imply that there is no point in waiting for the accident to occur. As responsible engineers we should investigate the hazards and avoid accidents without having to wait for a potentially fatal accident to lead to action. The other possible answer is to question the term “ageing accident”. What is the definition of an “ageing accident”? This paper will investigate into the term “ageing accident” and will propose a definition of this term. Further, this paper will describe some examples of ageing accidents, in particular the many structural failures that have occurred in the Gulf of Mexico hurricanes.

scholarly journals National Security and National Development: A Critique

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
JI Ebeh
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
National Development ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Primary Focus

This paper examined the prominent role played by security of life and properties in the development of the society. Its primary focus is that security is the major determinant of development of any society. It also critically examined the role of security in the development of the Nigerian nation. It ramified the concepts of national security and national development, how they are intertwined and linked them to the Nigerian society. The paper examined the causes of national security challenges in Nigeria such as corruption, injustice, poverty, poor health care delivery services, decayed and collapsed infrastructure, environmental degradation and socio-religious crises. The paper examined the correlations between all these causes of insecurity and the crises of underdevelopment in Nigeria particularly in the area of abject poverty, unemployment, lack of functional industries, low foreign investment, diversion of public funds, youth restiveness, religious and social violence, poor tourist attraction, and negative effect on the psychological wellbeing of the citizenry. It evaluates the issues raised and concluded that the issues are meant for pro-active reaction of the generality of the Nigerians and not the government alone.

scholarly journals The consequence of COVID-19: how the United States moved from security provider to security consumer

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 1253-1279
Author(s):  
Simon Reich ◽  
Peter Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Us ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Anthropogenic Threats

Abstract Deliberations over the COVID-19 pandemic's long-term effects on the global balance of power have spurred a large and rancorous debate, including speculation about a shift in the definition of national security and prescriptions about where it should focus. That argument will no doubt continue. But we argue that one consequence is already evident: the United States has spent the last seventy years portraying itself as a security provider in all key domains—for many an intrinsic component of its status as a global leader. One reasonable broad conclusion from the US struggle with COVID-19 is that it has further forfeited its broad leadership position on the basis of its behaviour. Yet that, although possibly true, would only portray one element of the story. The more profound insight exposed by COVID-19 is of a new reality: in a world where both naturogenic and anthropogenic threats pose immense national security challenges, decades of mistaken assumptions and policy choices have created a new environment, one where the United States has been redefined as a security consumer, at least in terms of international public health issues associated with the spread of deadly infectious diseases.

scholarly journals New Definition for the Celestial Pole and the Celestial Origin in the ICRS

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Nicole Capitaine
Keyword(s):  
Earth Rotation ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Reference System ◽  
Polar Motion ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Celestial Pole ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Celestial Reference System

AbstractTwo Resolutions have been submitted to the 24thGeneral Assembly of the IAU concerning the definition and use of the celestial pole of reference and the celestial origin. The aim of both resolutions is to provide new parameters for Earth rotation which are consistent with the properties of the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), adopted from 1 January 1998 as the IAU celestial reference system. The definition of the parameters have also to be consistent with the precision and the temporal resolution of the current Earth rotation measurements as well as with the theory for nutation and polar motion at the microarcsecond level. This paper explains the basis of the resolutions as well as their practical application. One of the resolutions defines the “Celestial Intermediate Pole” (CIP) in order to replace the “Celestial Ephemeris Pole” (CEP) for the new IAU precession-nutation model; its specifies the way for taking into account the constant offset from the ICRS and the high frequency terms in polar motion and nutation. The other resolution recommends the use of the “non-rotating origin” (Guinot 1979) on the moving equator, for defining Earth rotation and UT1; it also recommends the use of the celestial and terrestrial coordinates of the CIP in the transformation from the celestial to the terrestrial systems.

scholarly journals Science Education: A Panace for National Security and Economic Development.

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Ebeh Helen N.
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
National Security ◽  
National Development ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Functional Skills ◽  
National Integration ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literate Society

Education is a veritable tool for sustainable national integration and security especially in a country like Nigeria that is located in a region prone to conflict and insecurity. Education is aimed at developing the individual and the society. Science education encourages students to think and act as responsible scientists by providing opportunities for them to acquire and understand relevant issues. This paper examines the relationship between science education, security and national development. The paper also discusses the role of science education in achieving national security in Nigeria, such as minimizing superstition, inculcation of scientific and functional skills and knowledge among others. It also highlighted some problems that threaten science education in playing its roles effectively in achieving national security in Nigeria. To position science education for its role in the sustenance of national security, the researcher recommends that our nation should be a scientific literate society where students are acquitted with basic knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for development of the nation.

Education and Good Governance as Tools for Achieving Sustainable National Security in Nigeria.

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Mohammed M. ◽  
Mohammed Shehu T.
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Know How ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The People ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Huge Investment

Almost 60 years after independence, Nigeria is still faced with myriads of security challenges. This paper critically examined many security challenges bedeviling the nation‟s government, ethno-religious crises, insurgencies, armed robbery and border banditry, kidnapping, bunkering and so on. The crux of this paper is drawing a correlation between education and good governance on one side and national security on the other hand. Education is conceived to be a life-long learning experience that begins from birth to death, how education promotes national security as it inculcates desirable human traits like honesty, sincerity, hard-work, punctuality, productivity, innovations, patriotism, selflessness, brotherhood, friendship, etc. Furthermore, education empowers people by inculcating life-long skills and know-how, thereby liberating the individual from poverty and want. While good governance is expected to bring about leadership styles that will make the people centre of their policies and programmes. This paper concludes by asserting that huge investment in education to the benefit of its populace will greatly assist in promoting national security.

Intuition: Inferential Heuristic or Epistemic Mode?

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver W. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Completely Reducible ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cognitive Mode ◽  
Meyers Briggs Type Indicator

This study attempts to evaluate psychological concepts of intuition. Of the many definitions of intuition, two extremes emerge. One holds intuition to be an inferential heuristic, and the other defines it as a cognitive mode capable of immediate, non-inferential, holistic processing. Three inventories were administered that purport to measure intuition. The Intuitive Problem Solving Scale corresponds to the definition of intuition as inferential heuristic. The Psycho-Epistemological Profile and the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator define intuition as a non-inferential epistemic mode. Scores on these scales are correlated with scores on various inferential tasks, as well as with scores on measures of three traits usually associated with intuition (originality, private self-awareness, and creativity). Results indicate that intuition is not completely reducible to inference.

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