Teachers’ Experience and Teachers’ Competency Needs in the multidisciplinary approach to implementation of environmental education curriculum in Cross River State, Nigeria

The study was undertaken to determine teachers experience and their competence needs of teachers in the multidisciplinary approach to implementation of environmental education curriculum in Cross River State, Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The sample consisted of 737 teachers proportionally sampled from 67 public secondary schools in the three education zones of Cross River State. The teacher competence needs questionnaire in the implementation of environmental education curriculum containing competency needs items was used for data collection. The data were analyzed using means, standard deviation and t-test. Teachers’ experience (F=5.292; p<.05) significantly influenced their competence needs. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others under the multidisciplinary approach experience teachers should be well trained and retrain to be able implement EE curriculum

Unemployment, Curriculum Outcomes, Psycho-social Characteristics, and Entrepreneurial Skills of Polytechnic Graduates.

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationship between and among gender role-stereotype, personality traits, common business practices, curriculum outcomes and entrepreneurial skills of polytechnic graduates. 60 Polytechnic graduates, 16 of whom were unemployed, 10 self employed, 14 organised private sector employed, and 20 government employed were used in the study. Those were purposively, drawn from Polytechnic graduates found in South-South Nigeria. The design was ex post facto and five questionnaires were used. Data gathered through them were analysed using Multiple Regression Statistic. Findings revealed that of the nine independent variables, psycho-motor curriculum outcomes, and masculine and feminine gender role-stereotype produced and contributed to the entrepreneurial skills of Polytechnic graduates

Influence of Festivals and Recreational Facilities on Tourism Development in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State.

This study examined the influence of festivals and recreational facilities on tourism development in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State. This Ex-Post Facto research involved two hundred respondents consisting of tourism operators, tour guides and tourism research officers selected through stratified random sampling technique. A questionnaire constructed by the researchers was used for data collection while Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical analysis was used for data analysis. The research findings revealed that there is a significant influence of festivals and recreational facilities on tourism development in Calabar Municipality.  Based on these findings, it was recommended that cultural and Christmas festivals should be expanded to cover every local government in the state in order to expose the rich tourism potentials of the state as well as promote tourism development across the state. It was further recommended that recreational facilities should be fully developed in Calabar Municipality and other parts of the state as a means of attracting visitors both locally and internationally to such facilities, in order to promote tourism development

Entrepreneurial Perceived Material Well-Being Of Unemployed Tertiary Institution Graduates in South-South Nigeria

The study examined psycho-social abilities and their relationship to perceived entrepreneurial material well being of unemployed tertiary institution graduate through output and income stabilization. Variations in the contribution of specific predictors were noted both for the overall and discrete tertiary institutions’ models. But under the overall model, common business practices and personality traits accounted for a large amount of variance in unemployed graduates’ perceived entrepreneurial materials well-being; while among the discrete models of the University (UNI), only common business practice; College of Education (COE), personality traits and common business practices and College of Agriculture (COA), perceived curriculum outcomes, personality traits, and gender role stereotype respectively did. However, neither these nor others did under the discrete models of the Theological Seminary (TLS) and Polytechnic (POL)

Adequacy of Knowledge of Environmental Concepts among Junior Secondary School Teachers for the Multidisciplinary Approach of Implementing Environmental Education Curriculum

The important attributes of Environmental Education include the creation of environmental awareness, sustained concern for the environment and active participation in promoting environmental conservation.  It is a subject necessary for every individual in the society, since every member of the society has something to do with the environment. This is perhaps why Gifford, Hay and Boros (1982) opined that a well-educated populace is the best insurance for  preservation of  the environment. Similarly, Ezeanya (1999) asserted that environmental education is essential to change the destructive relationship between human and the rest of nature. Ukpong (1993) emphasized the importance of environmental education in achieving the goals of environmental protection and management. He stressed various educational strategies such as analysis, sensitization, information and education among others that can provoke knowledge that would change the attitude and values towards the environment. To prepare students with positive attitude towards the environment underscores the advocacy for Environmental Education curriculum (EEC). Essentially, Environmental Education is seen as a viable means of solving environmental problems. Jacobson (1985) summed up the aim of Environmental Education to include: helping individuals to acquire an awareness of and sensitivity to the total environment and to develop a basic understanding, skills, values of the total environment and the interrelationship between human and the environmen

Academic Domains As Political Battlegrounds: A Global Enquiry By 99 Academics in The Fields of Education and Technology

This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars' reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political actors', just like their human counterparts, having agency' - which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) battlefields' wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. For more information about the authorship approach, please see Al Lily AEA (2015) A crowd-authoring project on the scholarship of educational technology. Information Development. doi: 10.1177/0266666915622044.Wo