The 2002 presidential decree on technology integration into Cameroonian schools has been poorly implemented because the decision was not guided by clear vision, policy or implementation plan. The twofold purpose of this research was to investigate the degree of readiness of private secondary schools in the North West Region for technology integration and to make recommendations for effective take-off of the innovation. Descriptive survey design was utilized in three purposively sampled schools to investigate the influence of vision and mission statements, professional development and infrastructure ...

The entire world has been dealing with strange events, problems, and situations. Unfortunately, the state of education is quickly impacted by external events. The way education is delivered, and schools are run has changed as a result of these instances. Because of the political, health, and economic crises, Lebanon has been going through a very difficult time, which has made the educational sector more and more unstable. The financial status of most Lebanese families has been impacted by the Lebanese pound's loss of more than 90% of its value without a rise in wages. As a result, many people, ...

Traditional media are a one-way conversation addressed by a company to consumers or to the public, whereas Social Media allow a real, balanced and unconstrained two-way conversation between the company and the world. This is why it is of no surprise that some believe that using social media in the marketing strategy can be somehow frightening. This is also why marketers, especially in Lebanon are still reluctant to use social media as part of their marketing mix. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how companies in Lebanon use social media as a marketing and branding tool in consumer ...

The progression of cities, as Henri Lefebvre observed, can be studied as the slow spread of its heterotopic peripheries over its dominant space. This margin-to-center motion is usually accompanied by a change of the individual’s mindset, notably affecting their concepts of space, time, and identity. Thus, this thesis will trace how the cybercity—the newest addition to the urban evolution and formerly a heterotopic periphery of human life—has expanded into the dominant space of the physical city, therefore imposing its understanding of spatiality, temporality, and individuality on the contemporary ...

Grade repetition has been a contentious global subject, especially in contemporary times. While the protagonists of the practice espouse its benefits, the opponents claim its attendant demerits, especially psychological ones, far exceeds its merits hence advocate for its total eradication from the school system. Some chief variables like the self-efficacy and the perception of schooling experiences of the grade repeaters seem ignored, in such debate. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether there exists any difference in self-efficacy between grade repeaters and non-repeaters, and ...

Reading is universally considered as a fundamental cognitive process of acquiring information from written text. Since individuals acquire reading skills differently, there is no single way for teaching reading. For many years, the educational system has valued primarily linguistic and mathematical ways of learning and has placed a stronger emphasis on test scores than on the learners themselves. In 1983, Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences (MI), focusing on different intelligences in learning. This study is a qualitative action research that aimed at investigating how ...

In the mis nineties, the Lebanese television went through a critical transitional phase as Lebanon was moving towards peace folowing 15 years of civil war. In this stage, an Audio Visual Media Law was introduced to regulate the ownership and opertion of the militia owned de facto radio and television stations. This law was the first of its kind in Lebanon and the Middle East. To cope with the country's media scene, the Lebanese television stations had to restructure themselves on the corporate level, reposition their status, and rethink their programming policies. This mission was accomplished ...

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One of the most vital rights to the human race is education, especially in a school setting. Disruptive behaviors in the classroom can be an obstacle in front of this right. Here comes the importance of managing classroom behavior to provide the best education to students. Moreover, focusing on these behaviors can help the student in question develop many of his cognitive and social-emotional abilities. A technique that proves beneficial in this regard involves giving the child the motivation needed to facilitate his adaptation and development. One effective approach consists in individualizing ...