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Towards Addressing Primary Education Crisis in North-East Nigeria-Juniper Publishers

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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Policy Brief Executive Summary a) Nigeria has the highest number of out of school children in the world, and most of its primary schools are ill-equipped [1]. b) Low levels of education in north-east Nigeria have also been exacerbated by the Boko Haram insurgency, as a result of which 1,400 schools were damaged, more than one million children forced out of school, while 2,295 teachers have been killed [1,2]. c) Primary education is a basic right and its availability in post-conflict communities can provide life- saving information, protect children from trafficking, and recruitment by armed groups. d) Considerable effort is needed to ensure that children deprived of educational facilities as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency are given access to alternative schools, as well as develop a long- term programme together with the Nigerian government and local communities to rehabilitate the education sector in th...

Examining the Effects of Digital Animation Integrated into the Mathematics Teaching-Juniper Publishers

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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the students’ learning effect when the digital animation activities were integrated into mathematics teaching. Generally, the normal mathematics classroom is tedious and abstruse for students, which may cause students’ dislike to mathematics. Three sixth-grade students joined the case study. The results showed that using digital animation could promote students’ interest in mathematics learning and improve students’ concepts of mathematics. The integration could make the mathematics course more interesting and more connecting to daily life situations. Keywords: Digital Animation; Mathematics Teaching; Learning Interest Go to Introduction Nowadays, with advanced technology and universal internet, many new developments of computers or calculators can be used to assist mathematics teaching. In addition, research studies indicated that technology can enhance student...

Return to the Spirit of the Athens School (Raphael, 1509 – 1511) and to Humanistic Culture-Juniper Publishers

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Juniper Publishers-Social sciences Abstract It is time for people to realize what happens to a society when it fails to invest in social relations and the need imposed by history to again make social capital the focus of our interests. We must understand that social capital cannot be replaced by economic capital. A good society is always the precondition for growth of economic values and empirical evidence would seem to confirm this thesis. But the question is whether we will manage in time to dominate this current, limitless greed and aggressiveness in favour of a greater focus on a sense of fraternity and solidarity expressed by love for others. Homo sapiens really does seem to be rather stubborn as regards understanding its own errors. A species that seems to be very attentive as regards learning the causes and effects of physical ills but that has not yet managed to correlate causes and effects in its history. Conceptually, similar situations to those we find ourselves havi...