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The African Symposium: an Online Journal of the African Educational Research Network The African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network THE AFRICAN SYMPOSIUM: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK (ISSN 2326-8077) Volume 15, No. 3, July 2016 This issue, with twelve articles and two papers presented at the proceedings of 2016 Annual AERN Summit at Ohio University, is the last one from me as Managing Editor of The African Symposium. After eleven years (2005-2016) and more than three hundred published articles under my watch, the Managing Editorship as well as the Secretariat of AERN moved to Ohio University in 2016 summer. Volume 16, No. 2, December 2016 will be rolled out by Dr. Jean Francois Emmanuel ([email protected]) with the usual assistance of our indefatigable and reliable Technical Editor, Dr. Craig Kwesi Brookins of North Carolina State University. I am grateful and humbled by the cooperation and assistance I received from the authorities and membership of AERN over the years and I am optimistic that the same treatment will be extended to my successor. The twelve articles in this issue deal with varied and various educational, social, and economic issues impacting human conditions around the world. In addition, the keynote address delivered by Professor Biodun Adediran from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria at the 2016 AERN Summit at Ohio University is included in this issue as well as two presented papers at the summit: Adeosun, O. & Okafor, R. (2016) and Oyelekan, O.S. (2016). Ayodeji Muideen BADMUS, Mudasiru Olalere YUSUF, and Omotayo Olabo OBIELODAN evaluated a developed interactive web-based lesson (WebQuest) for teaching and learning in Nigerian higher institutions. The study was a development and evaluation type. The sample of the study comprised 15 educational technology experts and forty-seven 200 level undergraduate students. The findings of the study showed that developed WebQuest met up with the standard required when evaluated by experts using rubric evaluation model. The authors recommended that higher institution instructors should endeavor to develop and utilize WebQuest as an instructional strategy, among other uses of the model. Michael Abiodun OYINLOYE explored various strategies used by the Lagos museum’s workers to reach out to different age grades in Nigeria through collaborative support from private and corporate bodies in order to sustain laudable events in the museum. The paper recommended that various forms of marketing strategies used in the Lagos museum be used by other national museums in the country in order to sustain, maintain, and realize the socio-cultural and educational benefits of museums in the community. Olanshile Muideen ADEYANJU critically assessed some modern day practices and effects they have on the African mentality. The study also analyzed the place of African traditional beliefs and practices in modern day setting. The paper concluded that there might be no need for a total return to ‘African roots’, but to merge relevant parts of African traditional beliefs with those that are imported by foreign cultural practices and religious beliefs in tackling modern day African challenges. Olarotimi Daniel OGUNGBEMI’s study was a syntactic appreciation of J.P. Clark’s Ozidi with a view to showing how syntactic devices could contribute to meaning clarifications in the text. The study found that syntactic features such as declarative mood, interrogative mood, imperative mood, and complex sentences were deployed strategically to achieve meanings and convey the intentions of the playwright. The writer concluded that, to a very large extent, the meaning of the text depended on identified features. The features conveyed series of information, and it was evident that the feelings of the playwright were fused into the messages that were both informative and didactic in the text. The research reported in Adeyemi ADEROGBA’s paper examined the press coverage of the crisis engendered by Nigeria’s Federal Government’s attempt to remove fuel subsidy in the country. Four Nigerian newspapers were content-analyzed. It was discovered that most of the stories published in the newspapers were against the removal of petrol subsidy. In spite of the advantages of deregulation in petroleum industry, the author contended that government should first consider people’s interest in its policy formulation and implementation. Olusegun Ayodele ADELODUN and Ayobami Seyi OLAYINKA employed descriptive survey design to determine the frequency of those who registered for further mathematics in secondary school related to the number currently studying mathematics related-courses in the university with a view to inculcating positive attitude into the students about the study of further mathematics. The findings revealed that there is a relationship in the performance of students studying mathematics related-courses in university education and further mathematics. 1 Volume 15, No. 3, July 2016 The African Symposium (ISSN# 2326-8077) The African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network Thomas Ayinla OGUNMODEDE and Evelyn Nkechi EMEAHARA examined the influence of demographic variables on the use of road safety information by commercial motorcycle riders in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study found positive correlation between demographic variables (location, age, gender, level of education, marital status, income) and occurrence of accidents on information utilization. The authors recommended that adult literacy classes be established by the Nigerian government so as to bridge the gap in the level of education among the commercial motorcycle riders, because 62.8% of them were in the age bracket of 20-30 years. Yemisi Lydia OLALEYE used survey design and purposive sampling technique to examine the influence of community social work field placement on opportunity to tackle inequalities among rural dwellers in Nigeria. There was significant influence of involving community social work field placement in opportunity to tackle social inequalities among rural dwellers. The study therefore recommended that community social workers on field placement should be engaged in mobilizing and sensitizing members of the community in participating in community work. Solomon Adekunle ODEDOKUN investigated the influence of some predicting factors - school climate, academic self-efficacy and peer bullying/ victimization - on school connectedness among public secondary school students in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Three research questions were answered in the study. The data obtained were analyzed using multiple regression statistical method. There was significant relationship between the three independent variables (school climate, academic self-efficacy and peer bullying/ victimization) on the student connectedness. Also, the independent variables significantly contributed to the prediction of school connectedness among the participants. On the strength of the findings, the researcher proposed the need to enhance the school climate, fostering academic self-efficacy training and unrelenting campaign against bullying/victimization in Nigerian schools. Olagoke Ayorinde AYENI and Wasiu Olasunkanmi ADENIYI attempted to ascertain the pattern of academic adjustment of university undergraduates as well as the influence of students’ self-concept on it. Collected data were analyzed using percentage and Chi-Square statistical methods. Results showed that 48.4% of the university undergraduates had good pattern of academic adjustment. The research also showed that positive self-concept with 55.2% was the prevalent self-concept among the undergraduates. Finally, self-concept had a significant influence on students’ academic adjustment (56. 300 at p < 0. 05). It was concluded that the level of self-concept of a student played a great part in determining the adjustment pattern of such student. Ganiu Abisoye BAMGBOSE employed van Dijk’s approach to CDA and Jacob Mey’s Pragmatic Act, to investigate how the musician Saheed Osupa depicted his superiority and domination to his all-time musician rival, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma, in terms of artistic craftsmanship and material possessions. The study explored how language of Fuji musicians was always ideologically impregnated. Olayemi Jumoke ABIODUN-OYEBANJI and Oluwatosin Adijat SANNI sought to establish the relationship between the work-life balance options and teachers’ job satisfaction in Lagos State secondary schools, Nigeria. Data were collected from 742 secondary schools teachers in Lagos State, Nigeria using an instrument tagged, Work-life Balance and Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (WLBATJSQ). The developed items of WLBATJSQ yielded reliability co-efficient of 0.883, using Crombach alpha method of testing reliability. Data analysis was done using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) based on Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and Regression analysis. The study showed significant joint and relative contribution of work-life balance options to teachers’ job satisfaction. Significant relationship between work-life balance and teachers’ job satisfaction was also established in the study. As usual, I sincerely give thanks to our numerous reviewers, who over the years have assisted the journal to publish quality research papers from around the world. Author David A. ADEWUYI Managing Editor, The African Symposium Dean, School of Education, Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies Virginia Union University Richmond, Virginia 23220 2 Volume 15, No. 3, July 2016 The African Symposium (ISSN#
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