The paper attempts to unpack certain salient and important issues as concerns health in South Africa and Africa as a whole. It does not pretend to capture all the issues that permeate healthcare on the continent. It outlines the vision to transform South Africa’s health system in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13516
The concept of Multiple Intelligences has come out after Howard Gardner redefined intelligence. According to Gardner’s theory, human beings have different types of intelligence and based on their respective intelligence types, human beings have different skills in different areas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15011
Faculty members constitute a significant part of the existence and operations of post-secondary institutions. They are an essential resource in the delivery of higher education. Typically, faculty members are appointed to fill a need in higher education institutions’ efforts to g...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14962
The reported research is a quantitative study examining the effect of parental discipline style and its four dimensions—Demandingness, Enforcement, Punishment and Responsiveness—on mothers' perceptions of their children's social skills and learning motivation. The sample consiste...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/12647
The image of the Nigerian Police as a corrupt and inefficient institution with penchant for human rights abuse has not yet been redressed. Thus, this study investigates the public perception of the police and crime prevention within the Nigerian society. The participants in the s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/12763
This research proposes the thesis that liberative pedagogy is germane for the realization of such ennobling ideals like independence, freedom, creativity and development. The work has among its objectives the task of exposing the idea and ideals of liberative pedagogy articulated...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13455
Aims: The present research studied the effects of level and diversity of education on environmental awareness of the individuals. Study Design: Present study adapted a survey research design. Place and Duration of Study: The research was conducted in Karnatak, Bangalore Universit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14545
Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service (OCES) has adopted a core competency model that contributes to the actualization and professional development of extension educators. Due to the flexibility of the model, the selected core competencies, intercultural competence could be achi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14191
The current study investigates whether social justice has a positive effect on individuals of low socioeconomic status who have a high preference for the merit principle. We used the Merit Principle Scale and the Social Class Scale to assign the study’s low-socioeconomic-status p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11442
Background: The risk of distress can persist from the time of cancer diagnosis and extends beyond the completion of treatment. The use of expressive writing could help individuals to cope with the impact of diagnosis. By doing so, expressive writing may improve their psychologica...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14831