Social Sciences and Humanities

Teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching of values have often been cited as being challenging. This research work was undertaken to investigate into teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching of values in RME in the colleges of education in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The study used sequential explanatory mixed method survey and the sample size of 344 respondents selected, made up of students and tutors from the chosen colleges of education using-stage sampling technique. Questionnaire and interview guide were used to collect data.

This work refers to a review of the Brazilian literature in electronic databases, whose main objective was to verify and analyze the productions on discursive critical analysis in official communications. Based on this principle, a bibliographic survey was carried out in the electronic databases of Scientific Electronic Library Online - Scielo. The research was based on the authors: Baktin (2003), Fairclough (2008), Queiroz (2009) among others. Initially, this article was guided by these descriptors: discursive critical analysis in official communications.

In this essay, we present research results from studies on the social efficacy of the Maria da Penha Law in the municipality of Vitória da Conquista in the state of Bahia, Brazil, vis-à-vis its applicability by the state apparatus for the protection of women - Specialized Police Stations to Attend to Women (in Portuguese, Delegacia Especializada no Atendimento à Mulher or DEAM) and criminal judicial authorities – in particular, with regard to the antagonistic approach toissues of conflict resolution, which leads to an instrumental inefficacy of the judicial system, when faced with specific

The problem underlying this research is the low skills of the students in Indonesia for writing, scientific papers. The low of it, doe to use of leaning strategies that are less precise. Cooperative learning strategies that are less precise. Cooperative learning strategies type group investigation is expected to be solution to the problem identified so that students and teacher can enhance student’s skills in writing scientific papers.

This article describes the empirical research model called "Information management system and innovation in Public Intermunicipal Consortium in cooperation network", with the focus of the four-pole method. And also by the projection of its theoretical and operational elements that seek to explain the association between the conditioning paradigms of innovation in a cooperation network of public consortium and the teleology of the information management system.A survey was applied in public intermunicipal consortia in Brazil.

Infrastructure had been known as the key constraint to developing economy. Hence, this research analysed the cost of power outages to the business sector of the Nigerian economy using both a survey technique. One strong outcome of this research is that the poor state of electricity supply in Nigeria has imposed significant costs on the business sector. The size of these costs relate to the firm’s procurement of very expensive backup capacity to protect them against the even larger losses coming from frequent and long power fluctuations.

In this article, we reflect on the big capital of the World Bank's proposals for higher public education in the peripheral countries. Based on bibliographical studies, the research can contribute to the debate about the subject matter. It is concluded that the bank has been imposing policies to empty the role of the State in relation to higher education and also to break the indissociability between teaching research and extension within the universities.

The present study identifies ideas, perceptions, attitudes and opinions of young university students residing in the city of Rio de Janeiro, concerning their sustainable consumption practices. In order to achieve this goal, a quantitative exploratory research model was used with a structured questionnaire derived from thescale developed by Antil and Bennett (1979), composed of 40 statements, covering ideas, beliefs and attitudes related to socially responsible consumption.

The Pregnancy is a phenomenon of physiological, physical, social and emotional changes. However, obstetric complications may occur, which if not timely treated and/or if incorrectly managed, can evolve in severe manners, requiring hospitalization at Obstetric Intensive Care Unit. In this scenario, maternal near miss can occur, defined as a near-death experience of woman who survived a serious complication occurring during pregnancy, delivery or within 42 hours after pregnancy ends.

This paper shows those fundamental macroeconomics variables which explain the behaviour of the real exchange rate (RER) in the Euro Zone, with special emphasis in tariff rates. Diminishing tariffs on imports affect tradable and non-tradable sectors depending on substitution or income effects. When the substitution effect prevails, lower tariffs increase imports and the demand for foreign currency depreciates the euro. When the income effect is stronger, lower tariffs increase demand for goods in both tradable and non-tradable sectors.