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- ItemOpen AccessSupporting Educational and Emotional Needs of the Gifted in Nigerian Secondary Schools(2005) Adeyanju, 'Lade JoelThe gifted child is considered as a special child with 'disability'. He/she is emotional because most of the times the special needs that he/she deserves are often not met. The gifted child sits in class with normal children with very little or no attention given him/her. When found to be fast at learning, progress often gets slow as a result of neglect. Most of the time, such children are considered troublesome whereas they are not, it is the special attention that they need. The paper through survey examined 50 parents/teachers perception on special children and those 'label' gifted that they have identified and taught. The study assessed the characteristics behaviour, methods adopted to meet his/her educational needs and type of support provided him or her in the school system. The modified standardized Intelligence Quotient Test was used by teachers to screen the learners classified as gifted while stratified random sampling procedure was used to select participating teachers. A 20-item questionnaire was used to collect relevant data while descriptive statistics of mean score and standard deviation were use to analyse the data. A mean x SD = 13.20 was found for the disposition of the gifted. Result of data show that 42 (84%) of respondents agreed that the 'gifted' is a special child with no 'disability' 27 (54%) of respondent agreed that they 'gifted' was not normally excluded from organized school programme; 31 (62%) accepted that schools make provision to allow him/her progress at his/her learning pace. Only 2 (4%) of respondents claimed that parents of the 'gifted' come from low socio-economic class of the society. It was suggested that problems of the gifted be reduced by involving parents in continuous education about their gifted wards. Gifted children require more flexible educational experience; professionals should therefore be involved in their training. Parents' discussion groups will be expedient so that 'gifted' rearing experience could be made more enjoyable. Schools should employ specialist teachers and teachers should use discovery and learning techniques. Teachers should focus on higher order skills. The media has a role to play, especially by promoting the cause of the people with special needs.
- ItemOpen AccessPerceived Effects of Freshmen's Attitude to the Use of Audio Tape in Instruction(1997) Adeyanju, J. L.The research was directed at (250) freshers of the Faculty of Education in Ile-Ife, with the purpose of eliciting relevant information pertianing to subjects willingness to involve educational technology materials to teach during their six weeks practice teaching exercise. A self related questionnaire with 14 items was used to find out freshers attitude to audio tape device. Two hypotheses were thereafter tested. They are: (i) There is no difference in freshmen attitude to the use of conventional method and audio taped instructional teaching strategy. (ii) There is no significant difference in freshmen perceived effects fo audio tape as compared with conventional method. Data were analysed using inferential statistic of mean score and standard deviation. Result showed that 95 percent of subjects of study have no knowledge about teaching with audio tape, while 85 percent prefer other methods to teach apart from the conventional method Freshers should be exposed to courses in instructional design early enough so that they will have the opportunity to use a variety of )Ed. Tech) materials for instructional purposes.
- ItemOpen AccessProblems of Art Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools System: Implications for Trainers(2006) Adeyanju, 'Lade JoelThis study looks at the problems associated with the teaching of Fine Arts in Nigerian secondary school system. With the purpose of ameliorating the present situation, the study was conducted through the use of a set of 22 item questionnaire on causes of some of the problems concerning Fine Arts teaching. The population for the study comprised fifty-two (52) experienced Fine Art teachers who were undergoing the Part Time Degree programme of Obafemi Awolowo University between 1994 and 1999. Results from the analysis of data indicated that lack of materials constitutes problems since eighty-four percent of the responses from the respondent was positive about this fact. The absence of art studio in many schools was next in ranking of the identified problems. Fifty-five point seven-seven percent of the respondents (55.77) attested to this. It was also found that 78.85 percent of the subjects of the study could not increase the drawing skills of art learners. However, 96.15 percent of the subjects submitted that involvement of the media like radio, relevant pictures and charts could be used to improve art teaching. When the arrears of specialization that the student teachers for the study intended to go into were investigated, graphic design and textile design arrears were found most attractive to them. The implication of this finding is that trainers need to organize refresher courses and mount workshops periodically in order to re-oriented art teachers towards the goals of art teaching.
- ItemOpen AccessProblem of Curriculum Implementers and Classroom Learning Environment in a Developing Country(2006) Adeyanju, 'Lade JoelNigeria is a developing country with problem of curriculum development and implementation. Her contact with colonial masters and their educational system is responsible for that state. It is felt that children are being educated outside their culture rather than in their own environment. The paper touches on the tasks faced by the curriculum developers; it highlights the effects and problems of implementation and the role of university education in bringing about desired improvement.