Peace Management and Enhanced Academic Performance of Tertiary Institutions in South-South Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Obule Ebuara ◽  
Uduak Imo Ekpoh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
T Test ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Analyze Data

This study was embarked upon with a view to examining the need for peace in the management of tertiaryinstitutions towards enhancing academic performance in south-south Nigeria. Three hypotheses and one researchquestion guided the study. One thousand, two hundred and nineteen (1219) academic and non-academic staff wereselected for the study. A 31 item researcher developed questionnaire was used to collect data from the sampled staffin their respective institutions. Population t-test and mean scores were used to analyze data collected. Findings showthat peace was advocated but there were serious inadequacies in the implementation and enforcement process ofpeace. Proposed peace was scarcely enforced to the detriment of academic performance. The manner and approachto existing peace management does not actually address the issue of peace building. Based on the findings,recommendations were made which included among others, that conflict resolution and peace education coursesshould be introduced in the school curriculum.

BUILD PEACE EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF PAPUA, INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustinus Hermino
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Social Empowerment ◽  
Local Leaders

The purpose of this research is to describe about: peace building and child protection mainstreaming at the primary schools. This case will be examined regarding developing school curriculum that integrates values and principal of local wisdom as part of daily teaching and learning process; social empowerment to develop peace building and child protection. The main goal is to raise awareness of local leaders about the importance of safe and peaceful environment for the child development and growth; and improvement of government policy to foster peace and child protection. The result is expected to improve the capacity and commitment of local government to support and promote peace and child protection through regional law

Assessing Screenshots: An in-school evaluation of a middle-school digital citizenship curriculum (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Bickham ◽  
Summer Moukalled ◽  
Heather Inyart ◽  
Rona Zlokower
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
New England ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Online Bullying ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Post Test

BACKGROUND Screenshots is an in-school curriculum that uses aspects of digital citizenship to develop the emerging digital social skills of middle-schoolers with the long term goal of improving their health and well-being. The program seeks to create a knowledge base on which young adolescents can build a set of beliefs and behaviors that foster respectful interactions, prosocial conflict resolutions, and safe and secure uses of communication technology. Intervening in this way can improve mental health by limiting their exposure to cyberbullying and other forms of negative online interactions. This study reports on an evaluation of Screenshots conducted with 7th graders in a public school system of a mid-size New England City. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the Screenshots program in increasing participants’ knowledge about key concepts of digital citizenship and in shifting beliefs and intended behaviors to align with pro-social, respectful, and safe online interactions. Additionally, the study examines the extent to which the program has differing effects for boys and girls in terms of their conflict and bullying resolution strategies. METHODS This quasi-experimental evaluation was conducted in four middle schools in which one group of 7th graders received the Screenshots curriculum and another did not. Before and after the curriculum, all students completed a questionnaire that measured their knowledge of and beliefs about digital citizenship and related online behavioral concepts, their attitudes regarding strategies for stopping online bullying, and their intended online conflict resolution behaviors. RESULTS The sample included 92 students who received the curriculum and 71 in the comparison group. Pre- to post-test retention rates ranged from 52.4% to 84% varying by school and condition. Results showed an increase in knowledge about key curricular concepts for some students (F1,32= 9.97, P = .003). In response to some individual items, student increased their beliefs supportive of online privacy (F1,42= 4.389, P=.04) and safety (F1,76= 2.79, P=.099) compared to the comparison group. Gender moderated the results related to conflict resolution with some boys reducing their endorsement of an aggressive option (F2,40= 5.77, P = .006), and some girls increasing their tendency to pursue a non-aggressive option (pre-test=3.83, post-test=3.58). Participants, on average, reported learning something new from the classes. CONCLUSIONS This study represents a rare evaluation of an in-school digital citizenship program and demonstrates the effectiveness of Screenshots. Students’ increased knowledge of key curricular concepts represents a foundation on which to develop future beliefs and healthy behaviors. Differences in how boys and girls experience and perpetrate online aggression likely explain the conflict resolution findings and emphasizes the need to examine gender differences in response to these programs. Students high rating of the relevance of Screenshot’s content reinforces the need for this type of intervention.

Data science skills: Building partnership for efficient school curriculum delivery in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Nureni Olawale Adeboye ◽  
Peter Osuolale Popoola ◽  
Oluwatobi Nurudeen Ogunnusi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Open Data ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Data Description ◽  
Curriculum Delivery

Data science is a concept to unify statistics, data analysis, machine learning and their related methods in order to analyze actual phenomena with data to provide better understanding. This article focused its investigation on acquisition of data science skills in building partnership for efficient school curriculum delivery in Africa, especially in the area of teaching statistics courses at the beginners’ level in tertiary institutions. Illustrations were made using Big data of selected 18 African countries sourced from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with special focus on some macro-economic variables that drives economic policy. Data description techniques were adopted in the analysis of the sourced open data with the aid of R analytics software for data science, as improvement on the traditional methods of data description for learning and thus open a new charter of education curriculum delivery in African schools. Though, the collaboration is not without its own challenges, its prospects in creating self-driven learning culture among students of tertiary institutions has greatly enhanced the quality of teaching, advancing students skills in machine learning, improved understanding of the role of data in global perspective and being able to critique claims based on data.

Mediators and mentors: partners in conflict resolution and peace education

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela S. Lane‐Garon ◽  
Monica Ybarra‐Merlo ◽  
Joe Dee Zajac ◽  
Tekla Vierra
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Peace Education

scholarly journals Critical Analysis of Sociology and Social Research Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhidin Mulalic
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Law And Morality ◽  
Post War ◽  
Just Peace ◽  
Survey Approach

Although sociology is a modern discipline, sociologists in Bosnia and Herzegovina must consider distant past and present to tackle the questions of identity, nationality, ethnicity, language and religion. Sociological prominence had gained its focus in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina because of conflict resolution, peace building and overall social transformations and emerging challenges and issues. Such transformation of post-war Bosnian society coupled with a socio-political and economic crisis had opened the door for sociological and anthropological studies and research. Post-war society that eventually aims at a just peace, as Bosnia and Herzegovina where genocide had taken place, cannot without addressing sociological dimensions of war, justice, law and morality. Sociology as a discipline, within the institutional context, has also undergone significant changes and transformations. Using a survey approach, this paper aims to analyze why sociology is significant discipline in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Indeed, it is significant to analyze sociological and institutional transformations and their influence on the creation of new social models related to identity, nationality, religion, language, ethnicity, conflict resolution, war and justice.

scholarly journals ISLAM DAN PEACE BUILDING

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Deni Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Peace Building

Islam is the religion of dialogue that offers a variety of ways to create peace and harmony. Islam teaches compassion, tolerance, and the importance of friendship. Dialogue is a key concept in conflict resolution and peace building. This paper deeply discusses about dialogue in Islam as tool for building a peaceful civilization.

Tools Deepening Cross Cultural Collaboration and Leadership

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nancy D. Erbe ◽  
Swaranjit Singh
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field

The authors have led cross cultural collaboration in their organizations for twenty two and thirty years respectively. They have also been in a cross cultural partnership for the last decade. In this chapter they share the practices, attitudes and insights earned over years of cross cultural collaboration with an emphasis on professional reflective practice, or evaluation of impact, and tools and skills from the interdisciplinary field of negotiation, conflict resolution and peace building. Based on their experience, particularly author Erbe's work with those from an estimated eighty countries, they advocate these practices for all cross cultural collaboration and leadership in modern organizations. Rather than introduce relevant literature and research separately from pragmatic tools, the chapter integrates scholarship to help explain skills and empower readers to immediately begin practicing what is advocated here.

In Quest of Academic Achievement

2012 ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Nkem Ekene Osuigwe
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
The State ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
The Public

This chapter describes various readership promotion activities undertaken by a Nigerian State Public Library in partnership with schools, churches, and the state owned television house. Massive failures in O’ level national and regional examinations and the entrance examinations into the tertiary institutions have brought up the fact that the education sector in Nigeria is facing monumental challenges. This combined with a noticeable decline in user statistics, especially amongst school age children in Onitsha Public Library in South East Nigeria. This decline has long been associated with the school-boy drop-out syndrome. The State Public Library Board collaborated with agencies in its community to introduce intervention strategies to halt the trend. These were expected to increase usage of the public and school libraries, make reading attractive to children of school age, support school curriculum, and help students make better grades in examinations.

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