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Item Predictors of female lecturers reproductive health behaviour in tertiary institutions in Nigeria(His Lineage Publishing House, 2016-01) Ojokheta, K.O.; Oladeji, S.B.Women reproductive health behaviour (RHB) has generated a lot of interest from researchers across many disciplines because of complications on women health generally. Previous studies on women's RHB had focused on various categories of women and teenagers leading to a gap in literature on women in the tertiary institutions. This study, therefore, examined the extent to which cultural norms/religious belief, peer influence and mass media exposure influenced the RHB of female lecturers in tertiary institutions in South western Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted. The purposive sampling technique was used to 540 academic workers from thirteen tertiary institutions in South western Nigeria. Two instruments were used: RHB Scale (r-0.81) and RHB Determinants Scale with sub-scales, cultural/religious belief (r=0.83), mass media (r=0.75), and peer influence (r=0.71). Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance to determine the RHB of female workers. Pearson product moment correlation and content analysis was used to analyse data collected through the questionnaire form the respondents. Seventy-five percent of respondents exhibited good RHB. Their significant strength of relationships with RHB was ranked: religious/cultural belief (r=0. .066); mass media exposure (r=0.070), and peer influence (r=-0.602).Mass media exposure, cultural norms/religious belief and peer influence strongly predicted reproductive health behaviour of female lecturers in sampled tertiary institutions. Improvement in the reproductive health behaviour among tertiary institutions female lectures calls for government to encourage and motivate women having two or more children to adopt family planning through mass media messagesItem Developing alternative methodological framework for facilitating adult learning: the outcome of an experiment(2016) Ojokheta, K.O.; Oladeji, S.B.; Omokhabi, A. A.This paper presents the outcome of an experiment on an alternative method of facilitating adult learning called DISSAAP. It is an acronym where D stands for Discussion of learning content, I for identification of Deductions, S for Summation of recurring major deductions, S for synthesis of deductions in order of importance, A for Agreement of synthesis, A for Adoption of the synthesis, and P for Presentation. This approach was experimented with a group of adult learners participating in a University Distance Learning Programme with the concept of motivation as the course content Learners were allowed to discuss individually what could motivate them to achieve effective learning. From the discussion, deductions made by them were identified. The major recurring deductions were recognised and summed up for synthesis which were, thereafter, arranged in their order of importance. In collaboration with the facilitators, agreement of the synthesis was reached with the learners for adoption of what motivate adult learners. The adoption led to the presentation of the new knowledge on motivation of adult learners for general acceptability by the learners. Findings of the experiments show that learners' intuitive capacity, power, and empowerment to arrive at knowledge themselves were greatly enhanced which led to active participation of the learners in the teaching and learning process. The experiment proved that "DISSAAP" is an effective methodological approach for facilitating adult learning and is, therefore, recommended for adult educators and facilitators