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Special education and sustainable development goals in Africa
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- 'Theatre Arts' is essentially a visual arts discipline in which the elements of architecture, scenography and technology play very significant roles. However, these areas and aspects have suffered neglect, in the past, in the arena of Nigerian scholarship. Consequently, the present study aims at a historico-critical evaluation, analysis and documentation of the development and functions in the contemporary Nigerian theatre, as witnessed especially in and at Ibadan in the past twelve decades in broad terms and since 1948 (the founding year of the University of Ibadan) in particular. If there was in the pastan authentic African (especially Nigerian) theatre, then there ought to have been a corresponding typical and unique African theatre performance space form. Therefore there is a need to rediscover that form. But if the traditional African-particularly Nigerian theatre had had no unique and typical performance stage or space form, other than the village square, market place and the Kings' palaces, then it has to be accepted that the modern (present-day) architectural theatre forms of Africa and in particular of Nigeria have been imposed or have evolved from the cross currents of contacts with Western civilization and foreign influences and, therefore, they are basically foreign and of non- African origin. Consequently, the present search for a new theatre form, architecturally, would yield better results if the merger of the traditional and western modern architecture employing modern technology in equipping them to achieve flexibility, adaptability and timelessness could be pursued. In order to achieve that, what one has to do now is to critically examine the functionality of the present spaces and modify or refurbish them to suit the demands of the contemporary Nigerian theatre. However, most ideal would be the conception, design and realisation of new structures along the lines of new and long attested aesthetic principles and the results of technological researches arising from age-old experiments, new aspirations, current trends and future speculations. Since the arts and the sciences have always been the bedrock of human spiritual, psychological and economic development, and since technology has always aided the attainment of socio-political growth, technology, borrowed or developed, invented or transferred, has a great role to play in the development of Nigerian theatre. Hence, the investigation of its impact in the Nigerian theatre is a necessary and perhaps an inevitable task. The objects of the study are contained in an Introduction covering the purpose, scope, limitation, Overview of Literature, Methodology and Definition of Terms: while the findings in the three respective areas are presented in nine Chapters. Chapters One to Three contain review of literature, overviews of studies and projects in the three areas of study. Chapters Four and Five present, in chronological order, the historical development of theatre in Europe, America, Asia and Africa, especially Nigeria. Chapter Six looks at the genesis of theatre education, scholarship and practice, especially in the western world and recommends a model of training and desirable lines for the future development of theatre in Nigeria. Chapter Seven considers concepts and aesthetics of theatre arts forms and styles and relates these to the contemporary Nigerian theatrical endeavours, especially in the scenographic spheres. Chapter Eight treats the analysis, scenographic and technological executions of the production of the selected illustrative plays. Chapter Nine pursues the search for new physical theatre forms in their various parameters for Nigeria and examines the present state of the physical theatre structures and venues in and at Ibadan. The thesis sees architecture, scenography and technology as prime levers of the development of theatre arts in Nigeria. 1 results 1
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- Fine and applied arts provide the aesthetic and non-aesthetic necessities that enrich individuals’ quality of life. In recent times, the persistent students’ poor performance in the subject has been attributed to inadequate facilities, use of traditional classrooms and inappropriately designed learning environment in schools and institutions where teachers are being prepared. Researchers have focused on improved methodology and classroom practices but not on classroom and learning environment for teaching the subject. There is also a dearth of studies on influence of classroom design and learning environment on students’ performance in fine and applied arts. Most of the studies do not provide standardized classroom design and learning environment guidelines that could improve students’ performance in fine and applied arts. This study, therefore, determined the extent to which classroom design variables (spatial configuration, visual effects, thermal condition, acoustics factor, facilities and equipment) and learning environment variables (students’ perception, seats arrangement and class size) predicted pre-service teachers’ performance in fine and applied arts in colleges of education in Southwestern Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. Two hundred and fifty final year fine and applied arts pre-service teachers and 70 lecturers selected through stratified random sampling technique participated in the study. They were drawn from 10 colleges of education purposively selected from Southwestern Nigeria. Instruments used were: Teachers’ Classroom Design Checklist, Teachers’ Classroom Acoustics Design Questionnaire (r=0.84), Lecturers Inventory for Facilities, Equipment and Materials, Learning Environment Questionnaire (r=0.81) and Teachers’ Fine and Applied Arts Performance Test (r=0.84). Nine research questions were answered and eight hypotheses tested at p<.05. Data were analysed using Pearson’s product moment correlation and multiple regression. The eight classroom design and learning environment variables taken together, have significant correlation with pre-service teachers’ performance in fine and applied arts (R=.407;F(8,249) =5.99; p<.05).They explained 13.8% of the variance in the dependent variable. The two factors that predicted pre-service teachers’ performance in fine and applied arts are facilities and equipment (β=1.088; t=4.43; p<.05) and seats arrangement (β =3.76;t=-3.19; p<.05). The five classroom design variables (spatial configuration, visual effects, thermal condition, acoustics factor, facilities and equipment) significantly correlated (R=.335; F(5, 244) = 7.03; p<.05) with pre-service teachers’ performance in fine and applied arts and explained 10.8% of the variance in the dependent variable. The three learning environment variables (students’ perception, seats arrangement and class size) correlated significantly (R=.23;F(3,249)=6.11;p<.05) with performance in fine and applied arts and 5.8% of the variance was due to the three factors. Seats arrangement had the highest relative contribution (β=.21). Out of the eight factors, four had significant relationships with the dependent variable. These are: acoustic factor (r= .154;p<.05), facilities and equipment (r=.284p<.05), students’ perception (r=.147;p<.05) and seats arrangement(r=-.222;p<.05). Facilities and equipment as well as seats arrangement predicted pre-service teachers’ performance in fine and applied arts. Hence, the use of adequately designed classroom and appropriate learning environment has become necessary. Therefore, appropriately designed art classrooms and relevant facilities should be provided to enhance performance in fine and applied arts in Nigerian colleges of education 1 results 1
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- In Africa, as in many continents of the world, education as one of the social institutions has been a subject of constant debate and discussion among stakeholders. It has continued to attract the attention of everybody and its importance to any nation in the world cannot be overemphasized. Special education which is an aspect of education has always been viewed as a tool for sustainable development in Africa. For this reason, this paper examined special education and sustainable development goals in Africa. Special education is the education of special needs person who have some forms of disabilities that are capable of frustrating them in benefitting fully from the regular physical education programme meant for those children without disabilities. Individual with special needs include those with one or more of the following: learning disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, auditory impairment, speech impairment, orthopeadic and visual impairment. In this paper, it was stressed that in spite of the limitations identified with such special needs persons, they still possess the ability to acquire education, and this will go a long way in making them globally useful and give them a better chance to contribute their own quota to the growth of Africa's economy. This paper further discussed the fact that for special education to continue to be a tool for reaching sustainable development goal in Africa it has to be repositioned. Finally, it must be noted that disability is referenced in various parts of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and specifically in parts related to education, growth and development, inequality, accessibility of human settlements, as well as data collection and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is recommended that as persons with special needs are increasing in our society education should be made accessible to them so that they can give back to the society their own contributions for sustainable development. It is also recommended that persons with special needs should be involved in making decisions on issues that concern them. 1 results 1
- In this study, an attempt was made using machine learning techniques to discover knowledge that will assist policy makers in taking decisions that will ensure that the sustainable development goals on Health is met. Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering was used to cluster the states by personnel information (number of doctors, community health workers, nurses and midwives), this was visualized using a dendrogram. The Exploratory analysis revealed that it is only community health workers that are well distributed in all the states, the North West states have the least number of hospitals offering ante-natal services. Random Forest model was used to generate a feature importance to determine the important attributes that determined the availability of maternal health delivery services in a hospital, an important discovery was the fact that the availability of doctors does not in any way determine the availability of maternal health delivery services but rather community health workers, nurses and midwives are the major determinants. Random Forest algorithm was also used to classify hospitals offering maternal health delivery services and the result compared with Logistic Regression, Bagging and Boosting. The evaluation metrics used were accuracy, precision and recall. For accuracy and precision, Random Forest performed best while for recall it performed poorly compared to all the other algorithms. 1 results 1
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- Refract : An Open Access Visual Studies Journal 6 results 6
- Hemisphere : Visual Cultures of the Americas 5 results 5
- The STEAM Journal 3 results 3
- Glossa Psycholinguistics 2 results 2
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- Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 1 results 1
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- Conservatorium / Konservatoryum 1 results 1
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- International Journal of English Language Studies 1 results 1
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- Medieval Review 1 results 1
- Online Journal of Music Sciences 1 results 1
- Review of Artistic Education 1 results 1
- Review of Irish Studies in Europe 1 results 1
- SANE journal : Sequential Art Narrative in Education 1 results 1
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 1 results 1
- Transmodernity : Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1 results 1
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