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Comparison of Leadership Traits among Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in High-performing, Low-performing and Lean-Management Hospitals in the USA

Kjeld Aij, René Aernoudts & Gepke Joosten · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

Background: The effectiveness and efficiency of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is of critical importance to the performance of any organization, including hospitals. This aim of this study was to assess the impact of the leadership traits of CEOs on hospital performance in the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18313

The Relationship between High School Students’ Destructive Anger Expression and Self-control Skills

Erdal Hamarta, Faika Şanal Karahan, Eyüp Zorlu & Izzet Parmaksız · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine whether there is significant correlation between high school students’ expressing anger destructively and their self-control skills for coping with anger. Methodology: The participants were 502 (201 male - 301 female) students whose ages...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17060

Developing a New Teaching Paradigm for the 21st Century Learners in the Context of Socratic Methodologies

Horace Crogman, Maryam Trebeau Crogman, Laurelle Warner, Ana Mustafa & Raul Peters · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

Issue: The ever-growing plethora of teaching methodologies in the past decade has only confused and scattered the focus of the learners and teaching curricula. Though education’s progress claimed offering ways to educate more equally, weak students are still far apart and neglect...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17825

Drawing in Pre-school Children as a Strategy for Preparation for School

Yulia Solovieva & Luis Quintanar · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

It is well known that pre-school age is the period of grate importance for psychological development and for preparation for school. The process of learning and achievements at school depends on the types of activities selected at pre-school level. Unfortunately, it is often to f...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16913

Unity in Malaysian Political Diversity

Lukman Thaib & Mohamad Zaidi Abd Rahman · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

This article will address the factors that contributed toward Malaysian political stability in the light of broader shifts toward democratization by focusing on the origin of Malaysian plural society, and what type of regime maintenance has been used by Malaysian political leader...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17805

Factors Contributing to Truancy among Students: A Correlation between Predictors

Zahari Ishak & Low Suet Fin · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

Truancy has been a universal unresolved educational problem in countries that made schooling a compulsory routine for children age seven years and older. The objective of this study is to identify the contributory factors of truancy and the correlation between the factors among s...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17313

Women and War in Northern Uganda: A Reflection on the Respect for the Dignity of Women in War Time

Therese Tinkasiimire · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

This article discusses the challenges of women in the conflict and post-conflict stages of the Northern Uganda Insurgence 1986-2006. During this war, some women lost their lives while others faced physical atrocities like rape, torture and disfigurement. Others suffered severe ps...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13733

Impact of Innovation for 21st Century Educational Sector in Nigerian Economic Growth

I. M. Shuaib, Ahmed L. Enatto & Kadiri A. Hakeem · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

The paper examined the impact of innovation for 21st century educational sector in Nigeria. The paper employed the secondary data and sourced from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Statistical Bulletin of Central Bank of Nigeria. With the aid of statistical package (E-view...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14700

Analysis of the Scientific Productivity of Mexican Researchers on the Topic of Gifted Students

Maria de los Dolores Valadez Sierra, Angel Alberto Valdés Cuervo, Monica Galan Leyte, Gabriela López Aymes, Teodoro Rafael Wendlandt Amezaga & Ana Carolina Reyes Rodríguez · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

The purpose of the study was to conduct a critical analysis of the scientific literature by Mexican researchers about the topic of the gifted students for the period 2003-2013. Within the analysis were included research articles, book chapters and/or books in which a Mexican rese...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16947

Equality, Justice and Social Change: The Anger-Analysis-Action Praxis of Conscientization

Rachael Stephens & Barbara F. Hartigan · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

Freire delineated in Pedagogy of the Oppressed [1] that reality is continually socially constructed and that the ultimate aim of any social action, including education, is to contribute to individual humanization and collective liberation from systemic oppression. After observing...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16823

Towards Educational Planning for Social Reconstruction and National Development in Nigeria

Obunadike Joy, Uzoechina Gladys & U. Ughamadu · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

This paper is theoretical in nature. It examines how education in Nigeria could be used for social reconstruction and national development the concept of educational planning is examined. The essence of educational planning as noted in the paper is to connect education with natio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16301

Analyzing Decision Making Styles and Self-esteem at Decision Making of University Students Regarding to Shyness and Self-esteem Level

Coskun Arslan & Ahmet Selcuk Yılmaz · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

This study examined decision making styles and self-esteem at decision making of university students regarding shyness, self-esteem. The working group of the study has been determined as Faculty of Education, Faculty of vocational Training, Technical Training Faculty and Faculty...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16123

Anxious Lives: Exploring Lived Experience of Nigerian Sickle Cell Patients

Alex E. Asakitikpi · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

This paper discusses the illness narratives of undergraduate students suffering from sickle cell anaemia. The study explores participants’ concept of the self in relation to the disease on the one hand, and on the other, the construction of their identity in relation to significa...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17489

Strangers, Powerless and Hopeless in their Own Town: Alienation among Adolescents in Times of Recession

Gina Tomé, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Inês Camacho, Celeste Simões, Paulo Gomes & José Caldas de Almeida · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

The present work aims to make use of a national survey in order to propose an analysis of all the available indicators theoretically associated with the construct of alienation, and then validate a tool enabling not only to estimate alienation and its components in Portuguese ado...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17546

Is Midseason Coaching Change Effective on Professional Footballers in Turkey? A Qualitative Research

Pınar Guzel, Zeynep Onag & Fethiye Barutcu · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

The purpose of this study is to research the effects of midseason coaching changes on professional footballers’ psychology and performance. For this purpose case study method, which is one of the qualitative research techniques, was used to acquire data. And in sampling easily ac...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17764