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Educators' perspectives of the implementation of a classroom based, educator led occupational therapy intervention for fine motor skills by Damonse, Shireen
Published 2022“…Conclusion The South African Educational Policy encourages therapists working in schools to integrate their services into the classrooms as well as the homes of learners by means of contextual interventions implemented in partnership with educators and parents. …”
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Literature between two worlds : the first fifty years of the Xhosa novel and poetry by Zotwana, Sydney Zanemvula
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Pure and Fresh: A Typology of Formal Garden Scenes from Private Eighteenth Dynasty Theban Tombs Prior to the Amarna Period by Reichart, Jayme Rudolf
Published 2021“…Additionally, these formal gardens and their production were established, constructed, cultivated, maintained, overseen, and administered by intricate networks of individuals who worked in and/or liaised with them directly or indirectly. …”
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- Phonological processes constitute a veritable means to tracing language development, especially in children. Extant studies on Nigerian children’s phonological processes have examined errors and deviations, with little attention to language as an instrument for measuring children’s linguistic development. Therefore, this study was designed to examine children’s phonological processes and the constraints ranking responsible for them, with a view to tracing their linguistic development. Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky’s Optimality Theory was used as the framework, while the descriptive design was adopted. One hundred and two participants were purposively selected. Seventy-five and twenty-five children from primary schools in Lagos and Oyo states, respectively, were selected because of their age range of four to six years, and they read a prepared text. The choice of the states was motivated by their proximal, cosmopolitan and multicultural features. Also, two children, named child A, aged one year-three months, and child B, aged four years-three months, were observed in their homes in Oyo and Lagos states, respectively, for six months for the purpose of longitudinal observation. All utterances were audio-recorded. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics, perceptual and acoustic analyses. The phonological processes identified were substitution (28.8%), vowel strengthening (23.2%), monophthongisation (15.7%), deletion (15.4%), assimilation (6.6%), gliding (4.3%) and yod coalescence (2.7%). Utterances were slow-paced, with an average of 4.8 minutes per participant, and phonemes were often singly produced. Constraints ranking favoured markedness over faithfulness constraints, such as *SCHWA >> αF, NODIPHTHONG >> MAX, *Ct#C >> *COMPLEX >> MAX and AGREE(PLACE) >> IDENT-IO. The participants’ linguistic development was noticeable in the instantiations of their processes, which were similar to the ambient variety of Nigerian English. The instances were very intelligible and significantly manifested beyond word level. They were also functional for achieving juncture prosody, cluster reduction and gemination. However, non-adult instances, like morphophonemic deletions, persisted, showing that the participants had not fully attained the adult level of phonological processes. In the longitudinal data, child A acquired voiced and labial consonants first, and codas suffered deletion more than onsets in monosyllables. By age two, child A had begun to produce polysyllables and closed syllables, and deletion changed from whole syllables to only phonemes. By age five, child B’s processes had begun to resemble adults’ and, more energy-demanding processes like epenthesis, voicing and vowel strengthening emerged. Tonalisation of English words and indigenous interference occurred in their utterances. The spectrogram showed that the outset of acquisition with child A featured weaker energy, like in unaspirated plosives; however, energy increased and stabilised as the participant got older, as indicated in the darker shades. The formant values of the participants’ vowels on the acoustic chart showed similarity to the cardinal vowel chart in terms of height and position of the tongue. Phonological processes in Nigerian children’s spoken English emerged through constraints reranking and increasingly become more like adults’ as the years pass by. 2 results 2
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- The need to work and increase the economic status of families has resulted in both parents working for long hours and this has reduced quality time that should have been hitherto spent with their toddlers at home. Toddlers therefore are left with care givers or some forms of electronic media (television, movies, video games, cell phones, and computer networks) not only for entertainment but also for instruction. Electronic media have indeed assumed central roles in the daily lives of our toddlers and have become an alternative for practical learning. The effect of electronic media could be both positive and negative, on children's cognitive, social, and behavioural development. Most of the health and safety habits imbibed during the toddler years can be viewed as a set of habits that exist on a continuum developed and nurtured by parents. “Can the media replace parents in building healthy and safe lifestyle habits in children?” the answer is in the negative as this article reviewed the risks in exposing children to electronic media especially at their formative age without guidance. It concluded that it is important to minimize the negative outcome of electronic media on toddlers’ health. In recommendation parents need to spend more time with their toddlers to reverse the negative impact of electronic media and take the responsibility of initiating early healthy and safe lifestyle habits in their toddlers by serving as models and positive motivators. 2 results 2
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- Adolescence is a distinct stage of life that has attracted the attention of researchers globally. In 1904, Hall presented the idea of adolescence as a period of storm and stress. Sequel to this idea, increased empirical data caused this notion to stagger. However, the internalizing and extemalizing problem behaviours of adolescence indicate that this idea cannot just be discarded in the tight of modem psychology. Stress, which is the physical, mental and emotional human response to a particular stimulus, can arise In adolescents with reading disabilities as a result of hormonal changes of adolescence and the increased demands of school. Stress can actually exacerbate signs of learning disabilities that adolescents were able to manage or mask when they were younger. Some adolescents encounter problems with decoding, fluency and comprehension. Others may exhibit motivational issues, behaviour concerns and self-concept problems that may result in dropping out of school. This present paper therefore recognized and described the storm and stress of adolescents with reading disabilities. Teaching and parental role implications of the present concept were discussed. In the same vein, strategies for fostering reading skills of adolescents with reading disabilities at word recognition level, language comprehension and the use of self-regulatory and executive processes were discussed. Above all, it was emphasized that for adolescents with reading disabilities to become competent readers, teachers should provide a balanced reading instruction by ensuring that instruction is explicit, scaffolded and sequenced. Parents should support, encourage and assist adolescents' reading development by acting as teachers, showing parental love and care, encouraging uptake of challenges and participating in in-school programmes 1 results 1
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- Assessment is a systematic basis for making inference about the learning and development of students towards increasing students' learning and development. Teachers should therefore realize that assessment is the quickest strategy to improve student learning, hence this study examined an assessment strategy on Upper Basis School Mathematics achievement. The subjects in this study were upper basic school students from four Mathematics classes. All the students were taught by the same teacher, and the experimental duration was for three months or equivalent of one term. The four classes comprise two control groups and two experimental groups. In the control group, students took weekly tests every Friday, and in the experimental groups, students took daily tests during the last twelve minutes of the stipulated forty-five minutes allowed per period of the class teaching. The researcher examined whether the daily tests had significant impact on students' mathematics achievements as measured at the end of term examination. The researcher also examined whether daily testing had any effect on students' homework grades. The study found that daily testing significantly improved students' mathematics grades/score and home work grades. 1 results 1
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- Background. Vocational skill acquisition constitutes an important component of the educational process of training both young and old adults including out-of-school children. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which vocational skill acquisition training programme impacted the lives of beneficiaries taking into consideration the influence of socio-cultural and environmental factors on peoples’ participation in vocational skill acquisition training programmes in Ibadan Metropolis of Southwestern Nigeria. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 220 learners aged 11–50 years with at least two years of learning experience. Data were collected with a questionnaire and analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and chi-square analysis. Results. The results indicate that the majority of participants 41.3% (n=83) possesses National Diploma were unemployed youth graduates while 27.4% (n=55) possesses secondary education were out-of-school youth. A significant proportion of the age group 21 to 30 years constitutes the largest 65.7% (n=132) participated in vocational skill acquisition training programmes. The three socio-cultural important factors predicting peoples’ participation in skill acquisition training were cultural value system, social networks (family, friends and relatives) and customs and tradition disposition to vocational training programme. Again, the results also revealed that the three main environmental factors that influence learners’ participation in skill acquisition training were home environment (location of the training centres), society success stories on vocational skill acquisition and overemphasizing on skill acquisition to complement formal schooling. The main challenges facing learners to engage in vocation skill acquisition training programme were lack of motivation from the society, lack of modern machines and tools to work with after graduation, limited availability of industries for employment after graduation, limited opportunities for establishment after graduation and poor government policies on vocational skill acquisition programme. Conclusions. The out-of-school youths and unemployed youth graduates who participated in the study are willingly enrolled in vocational skill acquisition training programme based on the socio-cultural and environmental factors with the intention to acquired one skill or the other to be self-reliance. Having identified the importance of socio-cultural and environmental factors on peoples’ participation in vocational skill acquisition training programme will enable government put into consideration these factors in planning, organizing and implementing their vocational skill acquisition training programme in order to achieve desirable results on the citizenries. However, there are critical perceived barriers that need to be addressed, to enable more out-of-school youths and unemployed youth graduates with the desire to participate in vocational skill acquisition training programme to reduce unemployment rate in the country. 1 results 1
- Background: The growing number of people living with life-limiting illness is a global health concern. This study therefore aimed to explore the involvement of pharmacists in selected tertiary hospitals in Nigeria in palliative care (PC). It also sought to evaluate their knowledge and attitude to PC as well as factors that hinder pharmacists’ participation in PC. Method: Questionnaire-guided survey among pharmacists working in three-tertiary hospitals in southwestern Nigeria. The self-administered questionnaire comprised 18-item general knowledge questions related to PC, attitude statements with 5-point Likert-scale options and question-items that clarify extent of involvement in PC and barriers to participation. Overall score by pharmacists in the knowledge and attitude domains developed for the purpose of this study was assigned into binary categories of “adequate” and “inadequate” knowledge (score > 75% versus≤75%), as well as “positive” and “negative” attitude (ranked score > 75% versus≤75%), respectively. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney-U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for analysis at p < 0.05. Results: All the 110 pharmacists enrolled responded to the questionnaire, given a response rate of 100%. Overall, our study showed that 23(21.1%) had adequate general knowledge in PC, while 14(12.8%) demonstrated positive attitude, with 45(41.3%) who enjoyed working in PC. Counselling on therapy adherence (100;90.9%) was the most frequently engaged activity by pharmacists; attending clinical meetings to advise health team members (45;40.9%) and giving educational sessions (47;42.7%) were largely cited as occasionally performed duties, while patient home visit was mostly cited (60;54.5%) as a duty not done at all. Pharmacists’ unawareness of their need in PC (86;79.6%) was a major factor hindering participation, while pharmacists with PC training significantly felt more relaxed around people receiving PC compared to those without training (p = 0.003). Conclusion: Hospital pharmacists in selected tertiary care institutions demonstrate inadequate knowledge, as well as negative attitude towards PC. Also, extent of involvement in core PC service is generally low, with pharmacists’ unawareness of their need in PC constituting a major barrier. Thus, a need for inclusion of PC concept into pharmacy education curriculum, while mandatory professional development programme for pharmacists shouldnalso incorporate aspects detailing fundamental principles of PC, in order to bridge the knowledge and practice gaps. 1 results 1
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- Clothing rite, a major aspect of the culture that affects Nigerian in the new drive towards a better Nigeria via change mantra has not received much attention in the previous scholarly works on how to achieve the so much change in Nigeria. This is the gap this paper filled as it adopted interview, observation and focus grip discussion as research methods at tools to probe the ' wearing Cloth Religious Rites’ among the Igbo people of Nigeria. Consequently, it underscores the trust of the tradition which consists of some socio - religious activities such as dedication to duty, honesty in social relations, participation in community development and shunning all indecent behaviour often associated with youthful exuberance. Leaning on Durkheim theory of functionalism of religion, the paper proves that integration of the tradition as a home grown agent of change would help drive home the philosophy of Buhari’s change agenda. This is predicated on the fact that the youth are energetic, aware of the importance of socialization and building friendship using modern technologies and communication facilities to advance change and development 1 results 1
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- Contamination of petroleum products in groundwater in Baruwa community, Lagos has been widely reported, as a result of ageing pipelines and vandalisation. Information on the types, nature of hydrocarbon and other contaminants that could assist in assessing the level of contamination is lacking. This study was therefore designed to assess the hydrogeochemical settings (delineate aquiferous units, quantify contaminated unit and define types of hydrocarbon present) in the groundwater resources of Baruwa community, Lagos state Nigeria. The study was also carried out to estimate areas that require remediation in the groundwater resources. Based on preliminary studies, two boreholes (depth 36-42 m), one each in uncontaminated and contaminated areas were drilled to determine hydrogeological sequences in the Baruwa community. Twenty four sediment samples from the drilled boreholes were purposively selected for sedimentological analysis and determination of some hydraulic properties using standard methods. Thirty groundwater samples were collected purposively from the two drilled and other available boreholes and were analysed for heavy metals, cation / anions and the hydrocarbon content using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometric, Colorimetric and Gas Chromatography- Mass Spectrometric methods, respectively. Data were compared with the WHO standards for potable water. Various thematic maps were developed using appropriate software. The area of contaminated land and volume of water that would require remediation were estimated hydrogeologically from the thematic maps. Three aquifer units were identified at depths 9.0, 21.0 and 30.0 m. Aquifer grain size graphic mean was 1.64 indicative of medium to coarse grained moderately sorted leptokurtic sands. These were suggestive of materials deposited under low energy condition in a fluvial or tidal environment. The porosity ranged from 15.9 to 19.9%. The permeability coefficients of the aquifer were 9.469 x 10-5, 4.105 x 10-5 and 5.102 x 10-5 mm/sec, respectively. The range of total hardness and pH were 2.6-248.6 mg/L and 4.4-6.7. Heavy metals, cations and anions concentration (in mg/L) in the groundwater samples ranged from 0.0-0.4 (Zn), 0.1-1.6 (Mn), 0.1-2.6 (Fe), 0.4-77.8 (Mg2+), 0.25-13.20 (Ca2+), 24.5-286.3(Cl-), 0.1-1.2 (NO3 -), 1.4- 88.2(SO4 2), 0.0-0.2(PO4 3-), Lead, chromium, cadmium, nickel were below the detection limits. The samples from the contaminated area revealed enhanced concentrations of hydrocarbon, metals and anions when compared with the uncontaminated borehole samples. Data fall within the WHO limits except for Fe and Mn. Compounds identified were C20H34O8, C27H56, C21H44, C24H50, C21H34O3 indicating heavy oils. The estimated area in need of remediation was 9.9 million metre square with an approximate volume of 89.1 million cubic meter of water. Groundwater contaminants in Baruwa community were mainly heavy oils and heavy metals. The area of contaminated land that needs remediation has been calculated and volume of water that needed remediation had also been determined. Keywords: Aquiferous units, Sedimentological analysis, Groundwater Contamination, Hydraulic properties Word count: 428 1 results 1
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