Influence of gender and career interest on African university students’ perceived difficult concepts in the study of public administration

Awaah, Fred; Okebukola, Peter Akinsola; Ebisin, Aderonke; Agbanimu, Deborah; Peter, E; Ajayi, Oluseyi Abike; Gbeleyi, Olasunkanmi; Onyewuchi, Francis A.; Oladejo, Adekunle Ibrahim; Adewusi, Michael Adelani; Ademola, Ibukunolu A.; Onowugbeda, Franklin; Odekeye, Tokunbo; Lawal, R. A.

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“…The current findings support the works of Abah et al (2015); Donato-Kinomis (2016); Okebukola et al (2016); Adam (2019); Awaah et al (2021), while the works of Riffel et al (2013) contradict the findings. Illustratively, Adam (2019) notes the CTCA has a greater influence on students' academic performance than the lecture teaching style.…”

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“…Awaah et al (2021) reports that learners lean heavily on their culture to shape their comprehension of whatever is being taught. As a result, it is preferable to incorporate students' traditional viewpoints into the teaching process, allowing them to perceive things from perspectives familiar to them and their indigenous surroundings, fostering greater comprehension of the concepts (Awaah et al, 2021). However, students are also entreated to be objective to prevent cultural biases in their pursuit of scientific knowledge (Egerue, 2019).…”

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In the classroom I enhance students understanding of entrepreneurship development – the culturo–techno-contextual approach

Awaah

2023

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PurposeThis study aims to present a step-by-step implementation of the culturo–techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in a university classroom to teach industry and competitive analysis in the Ghanaian undergraduate entrepreneurship development curriculum. It further investigates the efficacy of the CTCA in breaking difficulties related to the study of industry and competitive analysis as a difficult concept in the Ghanaian entrepreneurship development curriculum. In doing this, the CTCA is compared with the lecture method.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts a quantitative approach. A quasi-experimental design is employed to gather data from 215 level 400 (4th-year undergraduate students) entrepreneurship development students at a Ghanaian public university. The experimental group was taught with CTCA, while the control group used the lecture method. The data was collected using the industry and competitive analysis achievement test (ICAAT). As random assignment to experimental and control groups were not possible, the data were subjected to an analysis of covariance approach with pre-test scores added as a covariate.FindingsThe results show that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group. The results further indicate the efficacy of CTCA in improving undergraduate students’ performance in complex concepts of entrepreneurship.Originality/valueResearchers usually test alternative teaching methods to break down barriers to study difficulties. The study’s uniqueness stems from the CTCA’s ground-breaking application to the study of entrepreneurship development in a Ghanaian public university.

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In the classroom I enhance students understanding of entrepreneurship development – the culturo–techno-contextual approach

Awaah

2023

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“…Research on students' difficulties in the study of public administration in African universities is scant (see, Awaah, 2020). Yet, in the scant studies that have investigated difficulties in the study of public administration, no attempts have been made at investigating whether or not group studies, previous knowledge in public administration, syllabus being wide, and ease of textbooks, influence students' difficulty in the study of the course in African universities.…”

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Previous knowledge and difficulties in the study of public administration among undergraduates in African universities

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The study of public administration is widely considered essential for the development of Africa's public sector. African university managers need to know if previous knowledge, groups studies, wideness of syllabi, and difficulty to follow textbooks/ slides influence the difficulty of students in the understanding of public administration. Failure to establish these precludes African universities from understanding the possibilities of these variables affecting students' understanding in the study of the course. This can impede efforts geared at making students understand the course and applying it for the development of the continent's public sector. With scant studies in the area of difficulties in the study of the course, this study will add to the literature with detailed probes of aspects of the concepts students find difficulty in the study of the course. The study is anchored on the transformative learning theory and adopts the explanatory sequential research approach using a sample N = 650 from five African universities. Using frequencies and chi square, data analysed found significant differences in the concept observed; politics, bureaucracy, public policy, ethics, arms of government, decentralization, governance, public personnel administration, and defining public administration. These difficulties were largely attributed to wideness of syllabi and lack of previous knowledge in the study of public administration. Appropriate remediating measures have been preferred to ease the difficulties in the study of public administration in African universities.

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“…These words apply to PA institutions of all the countries. For example, the latest research works by (Awaah et al, 2020(Awaah et al, , 2021 and others, concerning the perspective of teaching difficult concepts of public administration sector in Africa, state that focusing on such difficult key concepts as bureaucracy, politics, decentralization, public policy, ethics, governance, defining public administration and some others is really very important for raising students' understanding of PA activity and in the long run for developing public administration education in the field of PA. The authors claim that it is essential for future public administrators to understand clearly the concepts of PA and what is understood exactly by their definitions.…”

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“…The authors claim that it is essential for future public administrators to understand clearly the concepts of PA and what is understood exactly by their definitions. (Awaah et al, 2020(Awaah et al, , 2021. That is why we believe that much attention should be paid to the creation of international PA discourse during the new "collaborative governance" epoch in public administration history.…”

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The creation of international collaborative governance discourse during the process of teaching vocabulary at the university

Nurlybaeva

2021

Teaching Public Administration

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To improve the practice of public administration (PA) work at the time when collaboration governance principles and values have been especially needed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the new educational approach providing the creation of international collaborative governance PA discourse has become a very important task for public administrations of all the countries of the world because the common terms could help to make the communication of public servants and citizens more effective both in one and the same country and between different countries and regions. The literature concerning collaborative governance PA discourse creation has been thoroughly studied by the author. The experience of the creation of international collaborative governance PA discourse during ELT (English Language Teaching) and ESP (English for Specific Purposes) training of PA students at the Institute for Social Sciences (the ISS) of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) has been analyzed. The research methods included theoretical research, analytical research methods, methodology of empirical research, and methods of comparative research. The results of the analysis made it possible to conclude that in modern conditions of globalization and international communication in order to understand better the common values of citizens, to avoid discrepancies in vocabulary application and to improve mutual understanding of civil servants speaking different languages, the unification of the descriptive list of English terms concerning public administration activity is needed; the creation of international collaborative governance PA discourse during educational and training process of future public administrators should contribute to PA activity. The International PA Vocabulary as well as the process of writing new textbooks and teaching aids based on it and using new digital technologies and new methodology should be introduced into educational process.

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Influence of gender and career interest on African university students’ perceived difficult concepts in the study of public administration

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

In the classroom I enhance students understanding of entrepreneurship development – the culturo–techno-contextual approach

In the classroom I enhance students understanding of entrepreneurship development – the culturo–techno-contextual approach

Previous knowledge and difficulties in the study of public administration among undergraduates in African universities

The creation of international collaborative governance discourse during the process of teaching vocabulary at the university

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