Matematik og regning for voksne: vejledninger og håndbøger

The study aimed to study the profile characteristics, the motivational factors for joining of the course, evaluation of course effectiveness based on students perception, measurement of awareness, knowledge, symbolic adoption and actual adoption levels of the distance learners and also the problems and suggestions of the distance learners for effective functioning of Directorate of Open and Distance Learning, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Tamil Nadu, India. This will be helpful to understand the learner¿s position and needs of the learners regarding essentiality to complete a certificate course and the knowledge required from the course by the learners respectively. It will be helpful to concentrate and enhance the course flexibility or student favored factors to attract more number of enrollment in those courses. The findings of the study help us to further improve the quality and standard of the certificate courses which in turn benefits the distance learner to gain more knowledge.

Contemporary societies are facing a series of crises in the political, economic, social, educational, and moral sphere. These were exacerbated by technical and scientific developments or by the globalization phenomenon, fact that triggered a process of analysis of social and educational phenomena in order to identify viable solutions. In this context are included the debates conducted during the International Conference Education, Religion and Family in the Contemporary Society (ICERFCS), First Edition, held in Beclean, Romania, on 10th-11th November 2016, which was organized within a partnership between the Babe¿-Bolyai University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Educational Sciences Department and the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj, Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramures and Salaj, the Romanian Orthodox Archpresbyteriate Beclean. The event was attended by over 350 persons.

This book will help any lay man with basic concepts of emotional intelligence and self-efficacy and will acquaint the readers with basic knowledge such as what self-efficacy and emotional intelligence are, what constitutes them and how these factors can be developed to improve the performance of an individual or a team. The job performance in this book is studied and presented in the context of educational sector, however, the findings can be generalized in any context irrespective of organization or context. This book offers a handful of information for people desiring to understand emotional intelligence and job performance and provides a scientific backing as well as ideas for improvement of our personal, professional and social lives. The ideas presented in the book are stated in an interesting, engaging and comprehensible writing style, which would make it readers¿ favorite.

The study investigated the influence of personal and home background variables on secondary school students¿ career preference in Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District. Seven research questions and corresponding seven null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population of this study comprised all the 15,202 (7068 males and 8134 females) senior secondary school students in all the 72 public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District, Nigeria. The sample size of 588 senior secondary two students (280 males and 308 females) was obtained through stratified random sampling technique, representing 15 per cent of the entire population. Instrument for data collection was adapted from Bakare¿s Vocational Preference Inventory. Findings of the study revealed that birth order, gender, family size, fathers¿ educational status, mothers¿ occupation and parents¿ desire have significant influence on students¿ career preference.

Over the years, numerous graduates that acquire entrepreneurial knowledge and skills have been found not to put it to use once they graduate from tertiary institutions despite the prominent role which entrepreneurship education plays in providing these graduates the opportunities to gain the knowledge, skills, attitude, career aspiration and culture needed for business start-up or new ventures due to certain hindrances. The study thus undertakes an empirical analysis to examine the relationships that exists between entrepreneurship education and Nigerian tertiary institutions graduates¿ business start-up. Descriptive survey research design was employed; and graduates were sampled using Yaro Yamane sampling Formula. A structured questionnaire which included the general entrepreneurship education and business start-up test was applied in gathering information. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic and logistic regression was used in testing four hypotheses. The major finding of this study was that graduates entrepreneurial knowledge does not have a significant relationship with graduates¿ personality traits.

In general there are three types of implementation the English subject for elementary in the 2013 Curriculum, those are: elementary school without English subject, elementary school with English without evaluation, and elementary school with English with evaluation. Those differences of implementation are based on the 2013 Curriculum which establish English as optional extracurricular subject. In the fact, English for elementary is needed to give strong foundation to the higher level of education. Besides, some experts advocate the benefit in learning English in the early age. This study is aimed to answer two research problem: (1) What are the strategies used by management of MIN 1 Malang in order to accommodate the English needs in the 2013 Curriculum? , (2) What are the teacher¿s and instructor¿s strategies to achieve the goal of teaching and learnng at Islamic State Elementary School 1 Malang ( MIN 1 Malang). The data were collected through qualitative research. The techniques in collecting data were classroom observation, extracurricular observation, interview, focus group discussion, and document analysis.

This book focuses on preparation and validation of an instructional module on human rights education for secondary school teacher trainees. The effectiveness of an instructional module on human rights education in enhancing human rights awareness and attitude towards human rights education among secondary school teacher trainees is well deliberated. The author emphasizes both education for human rights and education of human rights in this work. Pertinent highlighting is given to curricular aspects of human rights education such as methodology, designing of activities, evaluation etc. Prospective teachers and other persons related to the field of teacher education should be conscious of the significant position of Human rights education in the present educational scenario. So the author anticipates that this book can be profitably used by teachers, teacher trainees and teacher educators.

The present study is designed to understand the adjustment of visually impaired students, attending the special and the integrated schools. This study has been conducted on 60 visually impaired students, aged 14-16 years, attending special and the integrated setup of Varanasi city, UP, India. The method of survey has been used to elicit the information about their adjustment in the home area, school area and personal area in special and integrated set-up. Data were collected by using the adjustment scale developed and standardized by the investigator. Results indicate that there was a significant difference in the adjustment of the visually impaired students in the area of home, school and personal in special and integrated set-up.. Parents should have knowledge of school environment and facilities before getting their wards admitted to schools. Administrators should appoint well-qualified staff. Teachers should provide congenial environment and equal opportunities to all students for exploration.

This work, ¿Business Education Students` Learning Experiences and Programme Satisfaction in Universities¿ was written to know the extent of satisfaction acquired by learners of Business Education. Business Education students have invested a lot, as such, the need to acquire a very high extent of satisfaction to justify their investment. This work was divided into 5 chapters. Chapter 1 was background of the study & chapter 2 was review of literature. Chapter 3 was method; chapter 4 was data presentation, analysis & discussion of findings, while chapter 5 was summary, conclusion, recommendations, limitations & suggestions for further studies with references & appendices. It is the author`s conviction that this work will be useful to Business Studies Specialists, Business Educators, Classrooms Managers, Educational Administrators etc. at the primaries, secondary, colleges of Education, polytechnics & universities.

Book demonstrate that ¿provision of insulation in residential building for thermal comfort¿. By this we get the information about need of energy conservation, and necessity of thermal insulation. An insulated home is more comfortable as the temperature remains consistent over weather changes .it makes the house comfortable and keeps the temperature of house cool in summer and warm in winters. Generally, there are four types of rating system. Using this we find which building is to be design.

This book elucidates the factor that enhances women empowerment through English language learning. Empowerment is observed to assist people with low status increasing the power and influence to enhance prosperity, prestige, and dignity. Although various mechanisms foster women empowerment, our research demonstrated the specific phenomenon of the English language learning whether it contributes to empowering the women as a whole as English proficiency has a prolific impact or constraint to women empowerment because of a large number of women failing to succeed in the workplace due to lack of competence. Besides this, several studies argued that the English could be the constraints to women empowerment as it is viewed as ¿killer Language.¿ It is to be claimed that the English language could be the intimidation to their mother langue that might lose their language if the concentrate on English language learning. Surprisingly it is even viewed at the colonial aspects of English learning in a negative way which could overwhelm local language instead of promoting women empowerment.

The study sought to explore ways of fostering self-reliance through an integrated tourism curriculum in Lesotho, using community participation. Tourism as a vocational subject was introduced in Lesotho in 2011, following the introduction of an integrated curriculum in 2009, with a view to arming learners with practical, creative, productive and entrepreneurial skills, so that they can face life challenges of poverty and achieve self-reliance. The study found that teachers ignore the message and intentions of the 2009 integrated curriculum, and continue teaching tourism as an academic subject, and reject the demands and aspirations of the 2009 integrated curriculum. . The study found that practicalising tourism to make crafts to sell to the tourists and other customers, with the assistance of community members, improved the learners¿ understanding of tourism as a vocational subject, and improved the acquisition of practical, productive and entrepreneurial skills, which enabled the learners to use tourism to generate income and earn a living, alleviating poverty and ultimately achieving self-reliance.