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{"title":"Action Research and Critical Discourse Analysis: A Pathway to School Principals’ Professional Development","authors":"Konstantinos Sipitanos, E. Katsarou, G. Polyzois","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-049","url":null,"abstract":"a reciprocal relationship with practice, effectively integrating theory and practice. The main research method used in this project to enhance the school principal’s reflection was Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This research choice, though not so common in AR (Katsarou, 2013), was proved to be very fruitful. Field-notes and journal entries were also used and analyzed. This article aims to document and reflect on the processes that facilitated a school principal’s shift, changing his perceptions about leadership and therefore his practice. Specifically, we aim to show how a school principal became empowered, managing to consciously distance himself from espoused theories focusing on leadership characteristics and behavior, towards theories highlighting social and material-discursive contingencies and collective actions, shaped by mutual discursive patterns that emerge and develop among participants in the educational situation under study. We consider this shift a prerequisite for improving his practice and a crucial step in his professional development. To achieve this objective, the article first discusses the key competencies of school principals and the processes through which these competencies can be mastered and then goes on to present a one-year, two-cycle AR project, utilizing CDA. Abstract: This article addresses the key leadership competencies of school principals and how these competencies can be mastered. We argue that combining Action Research with Critical Discourse Analysis can serve as a pathway to enhancing school principals’ professional development. The paper presents an Action Research project conducted in a Junior High School in Crete, Greece. The main research material collected included the transcriptions of principal-teachers’ assemblies, analyzed using Critical Discourse Analysis. Interesting findings emerged, shedding light on issues like who speaks, how much, the quality of turn-taking, narratives, role of context, etc. Drawing on the Critical Discourse Analysis findings and his conversations with the research team, the principal’s journal shows how his reflection deepens gradually, while new theoretical perspectives open. We conclude that, under specific circumstances, Action Research enhanced with Critical Discourse Analysis can enable changes in leadership, contributing to principals’ professional development.","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114586319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the Awareness of Elf among College of Education Tutors in the Ashanti Region of Ghana","authors":"G. Donkor, C. F. Lomotey","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/166205-402644-1-sm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/166205-402644-1-sm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125575089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grammatical Problems in Essay Writing: A Case in Vietnamese University, Vietnam","authors":"P. N. Loan","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-051","url":null,"abstract":"happens in the intermediate level of the second language acquisition. This causes developmental errors. Finally, cultural interference plays an important role in linguistic errors and inappropriateness in the context. Error analysis contributes significantly to foreign language teaching. Errors tell the teachers what the students has acquired and what the students need to learn (Corder, 1987). According to Erdoğan (2005), “Errors are a means of feedback for the teacher reflecting how effective he is in his teaching style and what changes he has to make to get higher performance from his students”. Error analysis gives supportive data to syllabus designers because they decide what items need to be added or which items need to be removed from the syllabus (Erdoğan, 2005).Hasyim (2004) had similar view and stated that error analysis illustrates which aspect in grammar is difficult for the students and how effective is in English teaching progress. Abstract: Errors play a significant role in second and foreign language acquisition. Analyzing the errors in the students’ essays helps the students themselves as well as the teachers and curriculum designers. This study conducted with seventy-four English majored students in TraVinh University, Vietnam. Their essays were examined and the grammatical errors in the essay were figured out and analyzed. The findings showed that verb tense, noun, subject-verb agreement and article are the most common types of errors which were found in students’ essays. This also revealed that conditional, model verb and phrasal verb are the grammatical elements which the students rarely used unsuitably. The findings may have useful implications for the students and teachers’ development.","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114741874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of ILA and RTM on the Achievement of Students on the Topic: Cells and Simple Circuits","authors":"Samuel Inzahuli","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2108-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2108-011","url":null,"abstract":": The main purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of students in Physics when Integrated Learning Approach (ILA) and Regular Teaching Methods (RTM) are used on the topic: cells and simple circuits. The study was quantitative, utilizing quasi experimental design of pre- test, post- test, and non-equivalent groups. A sample of 395 respondents from ten secondary schools was selected using multi stage and simple random sampling techniques. Two Physics Assessment Tests (PAT) were used to gauge students’ achievement in Physics: PAT 1 and PAT 2. The validity of the items, by three Physics- subject experts, was classified as good. The reliability coefficients of 0.803 and 0.791 were obtained for PAT1 and PAT2 respectively. Data analysis utilized t- test and ANOVA. The results obtained show there was significant difference between ILA and RTM. The results of the study showed that ILA enhanced higher academic achievement in Physics compared to RTM.","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133712239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenges Faced by Rehabilitation Centres in Management of Drug and Substance Abuse in Uasin Gishu, Kenya","authors":"Kiba Daniel Kurui, S. Adeli, F. Barasa","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-002","url":null,"abstract":": The World Drug Report notes that globally, one in twenty adults between the ages of 15 and 64 years abused at least one type of drug. Every year in Kenya misuse of drugs costs the country lots of money and sometimes the misuse has led to deaths. Due to the impact of abuse of substances on individual’s health and the socio-economic consequences, there are several efforts towards alleviating or reducing drug abuse in Kenya. With all these challenges and strategies put in place by the government and other concerned parties, drug and substance abuse in Kenya is still on the rise. This calls for drug abuse treatment whose goal is to stop drug use. The objective of this study was to determine the challenges faced by rehabilitation centers in the management of drug and substance abuse. To achieve the purpose of this study, three specific research objectives were addressed i.e., to determine the Challenges of the rehabilitation centres in management of drug and substance abuse in Uasin Gishu as attested by the management, to determine the challenges of the rehabilitation centres in management of drug and substance abuse in Uasin Gishu as attested by the rehabilitees and to establish the ways of improving the effectiveness of the existing rehabilitation centers. The target population came from the drug rehabilitation centers in Uasin Gishu County. It comprised all the drug and substance addicts and their instructors. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the drug and substance rehabilitation centers in Uasin Gishu County while stratified random sampling was used to sample the management and staff members within the rehabilitation centers. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus group discussions. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Findings as attested by the management and rehabilitees showed poor rehabilitees participation, inadequate resources, poor implementation methods, negative attitude, lack of medication, irregular follow ups, rehabilitees abandonment, high client relapse, inadequate support services being the major challenges to effective implementation. It is recommended that rehabilitation management should recruit clients in references to the infrastructures in some of the rehabilitation centers to avoid congestion and the strained resources observed in some of the rehabilitation centers during the study.","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"01 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127444737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Upper Nile University Diplomatic Relations, Resource Sharing and Conflict Management in South Sudan: A Case of Juba County","authors":"G. Achot, Dut Bol Ayuel Bill","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-017","url":null,"abstract":": This study aimed at providing a broader understanding of how diplomatic relations and resource sharing affect conflict management of nations like South Sudan . The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between Diplomatic relations and Conflict management in Juba County, analyse the relationship between Resource sharing and Conflict management in Juba County and to study the factor structure of Diplomatic relations and Resource sharing on Conflict management in Juba County. The study employed a case study and descriptive design while using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study population was 348, selected using purposive and simple random sampling technique. The sample size determination was made using Krejcie and Morgan Table (1970) formula. The sample size was 213. The data analysis was made using Statistical package for social scientists (SPSS 18). The major findings of the study were that there was a positive relationship between; Diplomatic relations and Conflict management in Juba County (r = 0.682, P-value < 0.01), Natural resource sharing and Conflict management in Juba County (r = 0.556, P-value < 0.01) and lastly variables explained 64.4% of the variance of conflict management (R Square =.339) such that unit change in diplomatic relations processes will contribute to a change in the possibility of conflict management by (.641) while a one unit change in human resource sharing will contribute to a change in the conflict management of the County like Juba (.506). The study recommends that the County leaders should develop diplomatic relations with other international communities that aim at empowering people with education values and promoting an electoral process that serves the purpose of national renewal and peace commitment, involvement and allocation of resources, a need to make more use of an integrated application of litigation, need for alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and traditional justice systems in the management of natural resource conflicts, alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms such as negotiation, fact finding facilitation and mediation should be adopted since they have the potential to enhance environmental justice and lastly for should be proposals in the Community Lands Act. Regression","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127719113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Christian Religion and Its Commitment to Unity and Peace in Nigeria: Towards a Paradigm Shift","authors":"Bonaventure Ikenna Ugwu","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-008","url":null,"abstract":"The Christian religion is committed to the realisation of unity and peace in Nigeria. However, the multi-religious nature of the nation demands a fundamental change of the basis of operations of the Christian religion to this project. This study proposes a paradigm shift that would make the commitment of the Christian religion to unity and peace in Nigeria more inclusive and effective. The work is qualitative and used descriptive and functional approaches to gather and analyse information. The conclusion reached is that a shift from a Christ-based to a Spirit-centred paradigm has many benefits that will make the commitment of the Christian religion to unity and peace in Nigeria more inclusive and effective. It is recommended that further studies be done on the implications of a Spirit-based paradigm for the promotion of unity and peace in the country.","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133229669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Audience Perception of Credibility of Indigenous Cable Television News Network in Nigeria","authors":"A. Adum, Ezeanyanwu Chinelo","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2109-027","url":null,"abstract":"Nigeria namely; Channels Tv, AIT and TVC Cable news. Media scholars believe that audience is more likely to read or watch a medium they think is more credible than the one they think is not credible. Hence this study is guided by source credibility theory. Previous studies have utilized source credibility theory to study the credibility of traditional media such as newspaper, television and magazine. Source credibility theory as propounded by Hovland, Wais and Kelly (1952) argued that audience is more likely to be persuaded when the source present itself as credible. The study was done by comparing credible and non-credible source Abstract: This study examines the perception of the audience on the credibility of Indigenous cable television news in Nigeria. Previous studies established that media audience in Nigeria has strong preference to international cable television news network. This preference stems from the perception that, these foreign outfits offer more truthful and objective reportage of events which the local media are deemed incapable of providing for the audience. With the emergence of Indigenous cable television network in Nigeria and rising criticism of news slanting leveled against international news outfit, this study investigated whether or not these Indigenous cable news network have gained the trust of Nigeria media audience. The study sought to establish the level of audience exposure and gratification sought from these outfit. The study utilized survey method to generate quantitative data. A sample of 360 respondents were drawn from civil servants in Anambra State. The findings revealed that Indigenous cable television network news in Nigeria, to a large extent have gained the trust of media audience since these audience perceived them to be credible sources of news.","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125893824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Principals’ Gender and the Utilization of Legal Provisions in Administration of Secondary Schools in Cross River State, Nigeria","authors":"Scholastica C. O. Ekere","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2108-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2108-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122228785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Listening Comprehension Teaching Using Projective Identification","authors":"Hwang Yi","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2104-063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2021/v9/i9/hs2104-063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443596,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132704544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}