{"title":"The Challenge of Rural Education: Issues of Environment and Shortage of Educators in Nigeria","authors":"Taiwo Adejare","doi":"10.55236/tuara.1161705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55236/tuara.1161705","url":null,"abstract":"Education is becoming fundamental to development as it plays a very crucial role in securing economy, improving income distribution and enhancing social progress. However, there are numerous challenges militating against formal education in several rural areas of Nigeria. In view of these, the potential gaps, constraints, and needs of rural education will be discussed in this paper. In particular, this paper will address issues associated with demand and supply of rural educators, educators’ development, cultural context of education, and rural education environment. It will also explore the future trend and channel possible course of actions for rural education, with measures to help ensure proper rural education, and safeguard against possible problems which may emanate from the rural educators. It will as well deal with the issue of creating an enabling environment for rural education. Secondary data would be examined and analysed for further recommendations.","PeriodicalId":478632,"journal":{"name":"The Universal Academic Research Journal","volume":"4 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139592293","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":"60-72 Aylık Çocukların Biyofili (Doğaya Yakınlık) Seviyeleri İle Empati Becerileri Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi","authors":"Suat Kol, Tuğçe Taşçi","doi":"10.55236/tuara.1313049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55236/tuara.1313049","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between biophilia levels and empathy skills of 60-72 months-old children. In this study, the “Biophilia Scale for Children” and “Empathy Scale for Children” were used as data collection tools. The research is a quantitative study in a relational survey model. The study group of the research consists of 150 children aged 60-72 months who attend the official kindergartens and primary school kindergartens affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Adapazarı and Serdivan districts of Sakarya province. As a result of the analysis, it was found that there was a high level of positive correlation between the children's biophilia and their empathy skills. As a result of the examining the total scores of both scales according to the variables, it was concluded that children’s biophilia levels differ significantly according to the frequency of being in nature and empathy skills differ significantly according to the age of the father.","PeriodicalId":478632,"journal":{"name":"The Universal Academic Research Journal","volume":"24 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139596166","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}