Background: Street hawking is one of the commonest forms of child labor in Nigeria. This study aimed at determining the social implications and factors associated with street hawking among children in Uyo, South-South Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional des...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19565
Aims: To critique, replicate and re-analyze Wainright and Patterson’s three studies of adolescents with same-sex parents, which conclude, based on representative population data, that such children suffer no disadvantages. Methodology: After replicating Wainright and Patterson’s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19337
The paper examined the impact of innovations and transformations in teaching and learning on educational sector in Nigerian Economic Growth. The paper employed the secondary data and sourced from the Statistical Bulletin of Central Bank of Nigeria. With the aid of statistical pac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14701
Aim: STEM has attracted great consideration. The purpose of research is: (i) study STEM education; (ii) explore STEM education with the creative and experiential activity; (iii) suggest applying STEM education by designing technical toys for the middle school student. Study Desig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19429
This study investigated the age, gender and parental socio-economic background as correlates of students’ demand for international passport. The study adopted survey research design of the ex-post facto type. Oyo State Command Passport Office of the Nigeria Immigration Service wa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18902
Background: Domestic violence is a universal phenomenon which affects all family members and specially children and women. Common reactions to domestic violence are post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Aims: The aim of this study is to find type and severity o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18960
Understanding what is happening with teachers’ availability, training and quality is one of the most pressing issues facing education in Africa today. Over the past decade many African countries have been reducing their investments in teacher training and recruiting nonprofession...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18207
Aim: There is dearth of research on the mental health correlates of bullying in sub-Saharan Africa. The current study aimed to determine the association between bullying victimization (being bullied) and the presence of emotional and behavioral problems among secondary school stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19295
Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of traumatic events due to eight days of military escalation on children PTSD, anxiety, resilience, relationship of between children mental health problems and resilience. Methods: This was descriptive analytic study. The s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19101
This study investigated the effects of using visualization tools in programming instruction on student success and motivation. The study also sought to determine courses that significantly correlate with elementary school students’ programming success. Two experimental groups par...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18316
Character construction in the novel presupposes the imaginative contemplativeness of the author as it is vital in the appraisal of its form, nay, the totality of the author’s intentions – a trajectory towards apprehending the ideological platform on which the novel is mounted. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18597
The study investigated the parental moral training and adolescents’ sexual values. The research assumption is based on Kohlberg’s theory of moral reason, which is at the conventional level for adolescents. At this level, parents play a significant role, and so the parenting style...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16746
This study is an attempt to reveal the underlying ideological loads of academic texts in the field of Language Policy and Planning (LPP) which are claimed to lack any bias in favor of the English language as a global language. It includes a purposively-sampled selection of texts...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18720
This study investigated the level of Nigerian Universities’ leadership compliance with the National Universities Commission’s benchmark on minimum academic standard, and its impact on the quality of Nigerian university education. This is consequent upon the observations of the so...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18248
This article aims at presenting Kabyle’s people immigration and taking a census of the difficulties encountered by immigrants in the frame of their integration in the French society. Maghrebi immigration for years now constitutes a legitimate field for researchers in social scien...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17938