Social Sciences

Today, participation in extra-curricular activities are seen as an important initiative that should be carried out by each institution in order to establish a holistic student so that they are balance in terms of physical, spiritual, intellectual and social in line with the National Education Philosophy of Malaysia. This article writes about co-curricular activities help to promote holistic student development

The current paper reflects a conceptual endeavours. It exhaustively review the literature as regards to critical thinking skills. The researcher pays special attention to the research on the phenomenon is the Saudi context. Throughout the body of this paper, the author outlined the importance of critical thinking, critical thinking skills, and teaching such skills. The paper is closed by discussing its stances. It also provides suggestion for future research.

This article discusses the self-consciousness of youth in co-curricular activities forming their personality. In addition, this article also discussed the core curriculum which has been outlined by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to adolescents who are still studying in higher education institutions as well as the effectiveness of the curriculum in shaping the personality of adolescents including studies that have been done in connection with extra-curricular activities. This article also touched on the education system nowadays.

The study compared the IT benefits in Malaysia with Nigeria construction industry using data obtained from internet for information on Malaysia while it relied on primary survey to elicit information on Nigeria. SPSS 17.0 statistical package was used for the analysis to arrive at the result. The Descriptive analysis (DS) showed a summary of the results from likert scales while Factor analysis showed the reduction of factors by combining the data. Tables were placed in sequence for both countries for easy comparison and quick deduction. The study showed awareness of IT benefits in the two countries with Malaysia a bit ahead of Nigeria. However, Investment in both countries is low; Component Principal Analysis in Malaysia revealed three components i.e. improving profitability, Improving Management and Increasing Flexibility. In Nigeria it is four with Increasing Market share. Literature also revealed that local construction industry in Malaysia was impeded by insufficient bandwidth, lack of training and unavailability of expert users. Whereas, this study showed 14 items as responsible factors affecting IT Facilities procurement in Nigeria with cost and erratic power supply on the lead with 4.851 and 3.9149 mean scores respectively.

This paper provides an overview of the literature that involves the gifted education. It started with exploring the theories of intelligence, as some consider it as a basic characteristic of giftedness. Afterwards, the most fundamental theories of giftedness have been explored in depth. This was followed by the characteristics of gifted students, in order to clarify how their giftedness is manifested through their behaviour. The following section focused on the methods that are being used to identify gifted students. Particularly, the researcher advocates multiple intelligences theory as a mean of identification. The researcher, then, discusses the premises, with a special attention to the Saudi educational system, of the current paper and forward suggestions for future research.

Development of the country has been the ultimate agenda since the independence of Malaysia, in year 1957 up to now. The development of the country will inevitably involve the development of the current younger generation who will eventually be taking over the leadership of the country. Here, the generation that needs to be focussed upon is the youth, the ones who will be leading the government as well as the country in the future. The youth should not be ignored in the country’s development scheme plan. Therefore, this write up concentrates on the elaboration and suggestions on how to develop patriotic spirit in youth.

Global growth in tourism has brought a wealth of economic and global. Today one of the planners in the tourism resources that have attracted more and more rural areas. Overall, a very valuable part of our heritage, rural world And especially the indigenous architecture and unique identity of a region well-supported and reflected in its territory Thus, according to the situation in rural areas And development necessary to sustain it, Rural tourism can be an option for rural development .In this study population, statistical information is from 19 villages in Isfahan city. A matrix with 11 rows and 19 columns, including indicators to be studied include the village. Component analysis based on survey results showed Six factors (distance from the village to the city center, The number of rural doctors, Village distance to the center section Sports facilities to count toward the village, High proportion of rural banks and rural villages have a number of drinking water to villages), about 86/89% of the cumulative variance is explained. Weighting and aggregation of these factors with the environment, GIS, and the potential areas of tourism infrastructure services were identified. Village on the area of tourism and Jrqvyh Lyy as the Ramshh Village, Sistani and Zefreh tourism in terms of having been the last times. The Euclidean distance method and a gap analysis, four regions were similar in terms of its tourism infrastructure services.

Furniture is a must have product that everyone would have it. There are many types of furniture makes from various types of materials and need some working skills to produce them. Furniture industry is a well-known industry all over the world and contributes to the increasing of Malaysian economic growth. High workforce demand in furniture industry can give a future career option towards graduates’ students of Vocational College in Furniture Operation and Manufacturing Course. By TVET, students can learn the proper skills in furniture industry so that they can adapt and getting involve with the industry.

In this research we try to demonstrate the national unity from the viewpoint of political culture in Iran and its connection with national unity on theory Internal Solidarity Diamond. On another word the main hypothesis in this research is the effect of political culture on national unity. Regarding that in addition to political culture there are other elements like economic structure, social, cultural and political structures are also influential on the regarding phenomenon. The main objective of this research is to study the effect of political culture on national unity in Iran. The research method in this research is also analytic – descriptive. According to the results of this research, in Iran, because of long existence of autocratic authorities, they have been the creator of a kind of culture that is based on distrust, autocracy, self-orientation, negative individualism, omission, destructions, aggressiveness and etc. the consistency and long life of this authorities result in strengthening of this culture type among elites and bulk of people in a way that during the development of this political culture, this has transformed into a independent variable. This kind of culture has a negative and not constructive effect on producing agreement between elites and national unity. Evolution in political culture in order to gain national unity is a necessity.

In order to become successful members of society in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, students must be able to write effectively. However, many students are unwilling or unable to write by the time they leave high school. Two major factors linked to writing performance include writing self-efficacy beliefs. The current study endeavours to conceptualize the relationship between self-efficacy and writing performance. The paper posit a positive relation between writing self-efficacy and writing performance. The study concludes its premises by suggesting topics of interest for future research.