The essence of education is for its recipients to employ knowledge obtained there-from to solve practical problems of their society. Yet, it has become ironical in Nigeria that both the huge expense on education and the innumerable certified persons in governance have failed to satisfactorily solve our many socio-economic and political problems, chief among which is bad governance. This sad fate has been traced to the lack of a defined philosophy in the provisions of the 2004 Nigeria National Policy on Citizenship education. This educational policy is laden with the theoretical nature of our inherited colonial authoritarian education with its oratorial and certificate overemphasis. It has failed to impart critical and pragmatic skills and values requisite for nurturing and entrenchment of democratic values among the citizenry. The result is the near war experience, loss of human lives and wanton destruction of property experienced during every political transition time in Nigeria. This, then, is where Dewey’s instrumentalism comes in to fill the ideological lacuna. Our paper therefore considers the application of the implications of Dewey’s instrumentalism to education as a portent tool for inculcating critical consciousness necessary for the cultivation of pragmatic and democratic values in the citizenry such that, they will be enabled to confront the challenges of democracy in Nigeria politics.

The chief aim of this study was to investigate the different strategies that can be adopted in exploring how mobile computing devices can be used in curricular delivery. The research site of our study i.e a college in Auckland, adopted a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) plan for mobile devices acquisition. Our research study focused on the mobile learning culture that has emerged in this school brought about by this BYOD policy and its impact on learning and teaching. A case study research methodology was adopted for this study. It was observed from the cases that students generally seemed more motivated in and excited about their learning when mobile devices were used during classroom curricular hours. However, the findings of this study also clearly attest to the fact that merely embedding technological tools within curricular design doesn’t necessarily transform teaching and learning to higher levels of pedagogical effectiveness. The teaching that was happening in the classrooms operated often at the elementary substitution level of SAMR model. It was obvious that technology needs to be wrapped around the critical core of effective learning design to match the affordances of the technology involved with the optimal learning pathways of students.

Internship has become a significant part of undergraduate training in the universities world over. It can be described as a window through which programme coordinators can see their programme-worth and improve them. This content analysis research focused on internship assessments of the Bachelor of English and Communication degree programme of one university in Zimbabwe. The study used internship assessment forms written by the supervisors of 28 students who have been on internship for 8 months from January to August of 2016 and 2017. The researcher collected and analyzed these internship supervisors’ assessment forms. The obtained data was categorized according to the themes that emerged. Finding showed that strengths of the internees, as exposed by the supervisors’ assessment forms, outweighed, by far, the weaknesses. The strengths of the students included: initiative and passionate for work; collaborative and time conscious; standard English language command; welcoming behavior; leadership qualities; professional dressing and potential to improve. An outstanding strength of the programme was the adequate internship period. The weaknesses revealed by the study encompasses: students’ incompetence in relation to other related activities, for instance, compiling statistical reports and local language barriers. Based on these findings of the study as well as the internees supervisors’ recommendations, this study recommends an increase from one to two of internship assessments. Also, the Communication component of the Bachelor of English and Communication degree need to be furnished with news writing, featured speech writing, video editing and filming as well as social media courses. The study also recommends that the university should have a radio station so that students have a fair experience of what they will encounter on attachment and job market. Finally, the university should broaden the general knowledge of the students on global events.

The study aims to describe the level of equivalence generated by a translation feature of social media Instagram. This study is a qualitative research in the form of content analysis with the aim of investigating the meanings of content or messages in a text. The data in this research are caption texts (title) in English taken from Instagram which serve as a source language and Indonesian language produced by the translation feature serving as the target language. The total data in this research are 138 caption texts. The research results revealed that 11 data or 7.98% of the data were categorized as equivalent translations, 61 data or 44,20% were categorized as less equivalent translations, and 66 data or 47,82% were categorized as unequivalent translation.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and organizational performances in selected private banks in Erbil. This research is applied an adopted questionnaire to measure and assess the mentioned relationship. The sample size is 144 persons who were chosen through random sampling technique. According to findings of empirical analysis, it is demonstrated that there is a significant and positive relationship between intellectual capital and selected private banks in Erbil. The results revealed that the highest value was for the relation between structural capital as intellectual capital dimension with organizational performance, and it was found that structural capital has significantly predicted organizational performance (P-value = .000 and the value ß = 0.378, as a result it can be concluded that structural capital will have a direct relationship organizational performance. It is followed by relational capital as intellectual capital dimension with organizational performance, it was found that relational capital has significantly predicted organizational performance (P-value = .000 and the value ß = 0.363, as a result it can be concluded that relational capital will have a direct relationship organizational performance, and finally the lowest value was for human capital as intellectual capital dimension and its relationship with organizational performance, moreover it was found that human capital has significantly predicted organizational performance (P-value = .000 and the value ß = 0.186, as a result it can be concluded that human capital will have a direct relationship organizational performance.

Teachers are at the forefront of improving the quality of education. Teaching and learning process is the beginning of the quality of vocational education. That is, the overall quality of education comes from the quality of the learning process conducted in the classroom. Quality improvement of human resources as early as possible can be directed in an integrated manner through various efforts by all components of the nation so that the younger generation can develop optimally in accordance with its potential. An educator should understand students’ differences in the learning process by involving a number of interrelated components. These components include vision and goals to be achieved, used approaches, applied strategies, methods, techniques, and selected tactic. In teaching and learning activities, students have different potential talents, interests, and intelligences. If all the potentials can be processed, nourished, shaped, and developed, indeed, all of that potentials become something of value and benefit to humans. The success of a learning process can be known to what extent the process provides significant for students on cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Therefore, the program development as an alternative is very much needed in improving the quality of service in vocational education.

The field of verb studies suffers from a shortage of research studies and this paper attempts to add some weight to these kinds of studies. Unfortunately, most dictionaries as well as ESL/EFL textbooks do not provide a clear picture of the semantic usage of words. This paper investigates the semantic level of the following verbs: collect, gather, put together, and assemble. While at first glance these words appear to have very similar meanings, and indeed can appear synonymous with one another, each encompasses a different gradient of meaning. The paper describes the semantic usage and different sense of connotation that belong to these words. Additionally, the aim of this paper would be to determine which of the aforementioned verbs American speakers often use in their casual speech as well as in other genres. The framework of the semantic description is laid through the comparison of the definitions of these words from several major dictionaries. Taking into consideration that this probably is not something one can definitely determine unless a large corpus of English is used, the framework of the semantic description is refined through the use of the online corpus collection: Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Many samples of each word have been collected as well as the collocations and contexts wherein they are found.

Second hand products are gaining more prominence in the present era of the world because there is an improvement in technology on a daily basis. This means that the products produced today will be outdated tomorrow and in order to go for an advanced version, there is a need to sell used products. The selling of second hand products makes today’s buyer to become a seller tomorrow, which are both profitable for the two parties. In this respects, there are certain factors influencing the purchase of these products considering the fact that they have been used before. These factors include; price, risk, market place and brand. Sometimes, we cannot say price is the only reason for purchasing these products since both rich and poor are now going for it. But definitely, price constitutes one of the main reasons because it is reasonable to buy a second hand product in good condition to perform the same task with the new product at a cheaper rate. Other influencing factors such as risk play a pivotal role as well because these products have been used before and they might be sold due to some faults, which could eventually make them useless for new buyers. The different roles played by these influencing factors have been well explained in this project using both primary and secondary data.

This study investigates parental roles as the implication for sustainable Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) development in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study employed cross-sectional survey research design method. A sample size of 100 families made of male and female in Kosofe Local Government Area, Lagos State were selected using four multi-stage sampling techniques to participate in the study. The questionnaire used for gathering data was a self-structured questionnaire. A Cronbach-alfa value of 0.88 was obtained from the pilot study carried out on the instrument. The data collected was analysed at univariate using simple percentage and bivariate using chi-square tool for hypothesis testing at the 0.05 level of significance. Finding from the study revealed that non-availability of a parent at home can significantly affect children’s effective learning in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). Also, findings revealed that parent supportive roles can influence effective learning in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). Based on the study findings, it was recommended that: parents should devote more of their time to the upholding of their children by providing academic imperative like textbooks, good nutrients, writing materials etc pay less attention to their business or other activities and that government should endeavour to make work-place policies accommodating for a flexible working hours in order to encourage nursing parents to bond with their wards.

This research mainly focused on the evaluation of the companies’ liquidity by using financial ratios analysis. One of the UK retail company has selected to be evaluated through analyzing their data which is available on their financial statements. Potentially, cash flow statement of this company has considered to be used for evaluating liquidity, because most of the important information for this purpose can be found in this statement. A hypothesis has been developed in which financial ratios analysis can help the investors to choose the company for purchasing their shares and it has been approved because the numbers indicated that liquidity is important as much as profit for attracting investors to purchase the company’s share owing to providing confidentiality for the company. More information has proposed in this research.

The present research is designed as an attempt to explore one of the most significant dimensions of child development, that is, adaptive functioning and the contribution of personal and familial demographic variables associated with it among children following typical developmental pattern. The sample comprised 239 children selected through multistage sampling from public and private mainstream schools of Lahore city, Pakistan. The data was analyzed through SPSS. Age, gender, marital status of parents, joint family system and family income turned out to be significant correlates of adaptive functioning. Family system, age and gender wise mean score differences were significant. Findings were discussed in socio cultural context.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship of three dimensions of organizational justice, namely, distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice with dimensions of employee performance, namely, task performance and contextual performance in three private universities in Kurdistan Region (KR). The study was conducted based on data gathered from 87 members from all academic and administrative staff. The current study used the primary data for allocating questionnaire and the secondary data which is required for conducting research study work was gathered through journal articles and books related to organizational justice dimensions and dimensions of employee performance. The research strategy is quantitative by using survey questionnaire in three private universities in Kurdistan. The findings of the study show that three dimensions of organizational justice, namely, distributive, procedural and interactional justice have positive correlations with task performance and contextual performance.

This study aims to examine the contributions of using corporate e-mail to educational institutions. The article is based on the benefits of corporate e-mail usage and management in all organizations and institutions and a detailed analysis of educational institutions has been provided. Moreover, the research is predicated on the projects offered by many important technology companies to educational institutions and offers solutions to the problems. In addition, the use of corporate e-mail in human resources, accounting, personnel records and the relationship between the student and teacher were analyzed. According to this analysis, the use of corporate e-mail has shown that all educational institutions have significant positive contributions.