April 2011

The crisis of student misbehavior in Zimbabwean public schools: Teachers’ perceptions on impact of macro socioeconomic challenges

Zimbabwe experienced unprecedented socioeconomic challenges between 2000 and 2008. In this same period, public schools recorded an increase in cases of student misbehavior. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological theory of human development, we investigated teachers' perceptions of the influence of socioeconomic factors on student misbehavior. Our findings show that most teachers perceived the prevailing...

Author(s): Manguvo Angellar,  Whitney Stephen D. and Chareka Ottilia 

April 2011

Emotional intelligence and faculties' academic performance: The social competencies approach

In the last decades of 20th century and at the beginning of 3rd millennium, different researches suggested that, IQ is not the only factor of managers “success and performance improvement, but also there is another factor called emotional intelligence that results in outstanding performance at work. Emotional intelligence (EI), at the most general level, refers to the capability to recognize and regulate emotions...

Author(s): Mahmood Nooraei and Iraj Saie Arasi