Browsing by Author "Durojaiye, Michael O."

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    Secondary school pupils' attributions for self-development
    (1994) Durojaiye, Michael O.
    Eighteen 14-year-old secondary school boys and girls from four different types of schools within Trinidad and Tobago’s stratified secondary school system responded to open-ended questions concerning their attributions for future development. Informal interviews were also held with principals and vice-principals of the participating schools in order to obtain information on the curricular and co-curricular activities of the schools. The assumption was that adolescents from the different schools in the study would have been exposed to different kinds of opportunities, knowledge, and skills over a period of three years. It was further assumed that the differences in their experience might be reflected in the kinds of casual attributions to future self-development they make. Results show that students from 7-year schools and from single-sex schools identified ability, effort, and strategy as attributions for attaining self-development more often than did subjects from other schools. Attributional responses for the students from 7-year schools and from single-sex schools provided curricular and co-curricular activities that encouraged students to make efficient casual attributions for self-development.
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    Yesterday's children"" - A life span perspective on retirement age as a factor of social stratification: A study in the Caribbean region
    (Institute of Social and Economic Research, UWI, 1991) Durojaiye, Michael O.; Ryan, Selwyn
    This study investigates the conditions associated with retirement in the Caribbean region. Questions centred around three broad issues: 1) What are the retirement policies and regulations in operation in each country? 2) In what ways are retired persons still involved on occasional, part-time, or advisory bases in making some contributions to areas of public life for which they have expertise? and 3) What are the views of retired persons on their state of retirement? What are the views of those still in the labour force concerning (a) their own pending retirement, and (b) their perceptions of some of the retired persons with whom they are familiar? Data were obtained from questionnaires, interviews, and documentary sources