CHILD/BASIC EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

This study reports on the negative effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within Early Childhood Education (ECE). Traditionally the bulk of the literature pertaining to ICT was predominantly focused on the compulsory sector, with any reference to early childhood education reporting on debates surrounding the pros and cons of young children’s use of computers.

In Nigeria, the main instrument for social change is western education. Education is the surest and greatest investment which a nation can depend on for the rapid development of its economic and human resources. Education is a long term measure and must be pursued when the nation is in dire need of immediate restoration of balanced economy. Nigeria like other nations of the world wants people who should contribute to the development of the nation through education. Such education should be structured to produce knowledge and skills to pursue cultural values and develop technologically.

This project work focuses on an analysis of HIV risk practices amongst Owan East women of child-bearing age. Owan East L.G.A. is in Edo North Senatorial District. HIV (human immuno deficiency virus) as defined by the Oxford Concise Reference Dictionary of Biology is the retrovirus that causes AIDS in humans. It has a specific affinity for the helper T cells of its host. The membrane envelope glycoproteins encasing the virus show great variability in their amino-acid sequences, hence the difficulty of preparing an effective AIDS vaccine.

Khalid (2000), describes almajiranci as seasonal migration of school age male children from rural to urban areas in northern Nigeria in search of Qur’anic education. In this contemporary era, Almajiranci has degenerated to the extent that it has now greatly exposed the children to various types of moral or social hazards. Many of these children metamorphasize into drug addicts, dropouts, street beggars etc. they seldom go back to their villages or home towns.

It has been the general assumption that children with reasonable physical care would grow into normal happy adulthood. But scientific investigations of psychologists, sociologist and psychiatrists regarding personality development has uncovered the greater importance of the growing up and its lasting effects on the total personality of a person. Adult personality has its root in childhood. What we can do as adult is largely determined by ways in which we were allowed into experience inevitable events of childhood.

It is in this regard that Malotyre and Clarkj (1996) opined that the attitude of parent determine the quality of education their children or wards receive in primary school. The positive attitude of parent have a positive impact on their children performance and aspiration, help in raising knowledge and increasing understanding and facilitate academic progress through the involvement of parents in their children academic activities. On the other hand negative attitude of parent towards their children education have a negative effect on their academic progress leading to poor academic performance and consequently the withdrawal of such children from school. This makes such children take to street and become menace to the society later in life.

In a research work of this magnitude, there ought to be existing work in the form of literatures to assist the researcher. But unfortunately there are quite a few. However, this research work with the existing literature in this area of study will add to the existing work on the subject matter.

This study is to provide parents and school administrators with an insight into how much damage child abuse and especially hawking after school can have on the academic development of student in general. This study is significant as the findings will be beneficial to parents, guardians, teachers, school heads and all other stakeholders in the educational sector, as they will be better enlightened on the problems associated with child abuse. Such knowledge may curtail any further action of exploiting the child especially been used as object of raising family economy. Hawking no doubt expose the child to many social vices, thus the fact that the study attempts to create a model for proper upbringing of the child in the society makes it justifiable.

ABSTRACT This study is designed not only to impact broad based knowledge to marital homes but also to tackle the problems facing Home on the performance of Pupils. Home affects all round development of the student which includes: social, educational, emotional, vocational and mental aspect of the student. It is well known fact that parents contributes a lot to over all development of the Pupils. The child’s home and his family offers the best education since his parents serve as teachers. The parents lay the foundation for the desired social moral, emotional, spiritual and intellectual well being of a child. The training a child receives from a home is of greatest importance in his/her total personality formation and his/her academic achievement as a student, it can also be observed that the pattern of life in the home (stable or broken) the economic and social status of the family in the community and many other conditions that gives the home a distinctive character can influence the achievement of student in school. This study is limited to secondary school Pupils in Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT Abuja. The study covered Effects of Home on the Academic Performance of Pupils in Primary Schools in Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT Abuja. The population of study refers to the number of persons or objects covered by the study (Oswala, 2011:55). Hence, the population of this study constituted of all selected secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council FCT, Abuja. A total of 100 tea

ABSTRACT The study examined the effects of PowerPoint Presentation modes on the achievement and retention of junior Secondary School three (JSS3) students in Basic science. Basic science students exposed to Text- picture mode of PowerPoint presentation were compared with their counterparts exposed to the Text- animation mode to ascertain whether significant differences exist in their mean achievement and retention scores. The study also investigated the influence of gender on academic achievement and retention of JSS3 students in Basic science. Four research questions and six null hypotheses guided the study. The researcher reviewed related literature. A quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group research design involving two intact classes were used. The accessible population comprised of 1359 JSS3 basic science students in the 11 co-educational public secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area. A sample of eighty (80) students from two co-educational schools were drawn from two intact classes. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample Nsukka Central Development Council and the two schools that were used for the study. Random sampling techniques were used to draw two intact classes in the two schools. The classes were assigned to the two treatment groups, Text-picture and Text-animation modes of PPT by balloting. The regular Basic science teachers of the selected schools were trained and used for the study. The instrument for data collection was the Basic S