https://academic.jozacpublishers.com/index.php/books/issue/feed Jozac Publishers | Academic 2024-01-26T09:10:36+00:00 Editor books@jozacpublishers.com Open Monograph Press Jozac Publishers Academic https://academic.jozacpublishers.com/index.php/books/catalog/book/8 Christian Leadership and Administration: Issues, Principles and Practices 2024-01-26T09:10:36+00:00 <p>The birth of this book titled <em>Christian Leadership and Administration: Issues, Principles and Practices</em> came into being as a result of the contributions made and qualities of some colloquia papers focusing on Church Administration and Leadership, presented and submitted by the doctoral students of the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso under the facilitation of three professors: Prof. Helen Ewena Ishola-Esan; Prof. Ayuk A. Ayuk; and Late Prof. Gideon ‘Ponnle Adetunji; and culminating from two PhD classes.</p> <p>Exploring the idea that came via counsel and experience to converting this book project from dream to reality is worth applauding; giving credence to the personalities that conceived the idea and the effort of those who made it a reality. This is due to the fact that those who were involved in the collation, internal editing and shaping are very busy individuals. The efforts of the facilitators of the course that culminated into the book project are recognized and commended; they include: Prof. Helen Ishola-Esan, former Dean, faculty of Education and the Current President, Baptist Theological Seminary, Eku; Prof. Ayuk</p> 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Jozac Publishers https://academic.jozacpublishers.com/index.php/books/catalog/book/6 Disruptive social media: Towards a resilient social media ecosystem in Africa 2023-02-14T18:00:42+00:00 Jozac Publishers books@jozacpublishers.com <p>Social media’s disruptiveness in Africa is evident in every facet of the life of Africans. Interestingly, these disruptions present opportunities that could stir up development. This book throws a spotlight on the tremendous significance of the disruption of social media in the fields of healthcare, politics, governance, conflict resolution, peaceful co-existence as well as communication and reporting. The freedom and influence of social media require that some monitoring mechanisms are put in place to guard against the unhealthy trend of invading privacy- a sting of social media. Each of the chapters in the book intelligently discusses social media disruption in an area of human endeavour and presents a scholarly probe into how resilience could be built. This book is a great resource for scholars who want to get a holistic understanding of the disruptiveness in the social media ecosystem in Africa and how resilience could be built to sustain its use on the continent.</p> 2023-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Jozac Publishers https://academic.jozacpublishers.com/index.php/books/catalog/book/4 A-Z of social media research methods 2022-09-15T09:05:35+00:00 Joshua Ebere Chukwuere joshchukwuere@gmail.com Precious Chibuike Chukwuere chibuikeprecious45@yahoo.com Ashiegbu Gloria Nwakaego gloriaashiegbu80@gmail.com Usman Sambo ussambo2@gmail.com Babayo Sule babayosule@gmail.com Justine John Dyikuk justinejohndyikuk@gmail.com Nicholas Anyuor nanyuor@gmail.com Kenneth Ohei kennethohei@gmail.com Haruna Ishola Abdullahi harunism@gmail.com Enitan Olumide Olutade olumightyolutade@gmail.com Doyin Hassan doyinhassan3069@gmail.com Andrew Eromosele Elabor elaborandrew@gmail.com Dickson Adom adomdick2@gmail.com Ampofo Twene ampofodrum@gmail.com Comfort Olebara chy_prime@yahoo.com Jozac Publishers books@jozacpublishers.com <p>Social media has offered a different avenue for connecting with and communicating among people in the global community with vast opportunities to harness. Such vast opportunities include conducting research that in one way or the other to solves human problems and contributes to the scientific body of knowledge. Harnessing the research opportunities associated with social media gave birth to this timely and organized textbook titled “A-Z of social media research method” which provides holistic information for scholars globally. Understandably, conducting social media research can be tricky owing to the vast level of available social media platforms and the quantity of data that could be generated from social media space. Thus, conducting social media research follows a systematic method of inquiry to actualize the study objective. Hence this textbook is insightful and adequately written for scholars, social media experts, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and consultants across disciplines in conducting social media research. This A-Z of social media research method provides systematic step-to-step approaches to conducting and reporting scientific studies. The researchers in taking their time in conceptualizing, researching, and writing this book, believe that it will be an excellent resource for higher institution libraries and generally for knowledge expansion. Therefore, this book is recommended for scholars, Data scientists, higher institution libraries, political scientists and anyone interested in and conducting social media research. The book is written into understandable chapters for easy comprehension by readers.</p> 2022-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Joshua Ebere Chukwuere, Precious Chibuike Chukwuere , Ashiegbu Gloria Nwakaego, Usman Sambo, Babayo Sule, Justine John Dyikuk, Nicholas Anyuor , Kenneth Ohei, Haruna Ishola Abdullahi , Enitan Olumide Olutade, Doyin Hassan, Andrew Eromosele Elabor , Dickson Adom , Ampofo Twene, Comfort Olebara https://academic.jozacpublishers.com/index.php/books/catalog/book/3 Traditional Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for Ghana 2022-04-29T17:36:08+00:00 Dickson Adom adomdick2@gmail.com <p><span class="fontstyle0">Biodiversity management in Ghana has been largely driven by scientific conservation models. </span><span class="fontstyle1">The time-tested and useful traditional conservation ethos in the Ghanaian cultural and artistic elements such as festivals, proverbs, cosmological belief systems and taboos are often watered </span><span class="fontstyle0">down by conservationists in biodiversity conservation schemes. This is due to conservationists’ lack of clear-cut guidelines on how to effectively utilize the traditional knowledge systems in complementing the scientific conservation models they are well versed. The developed traditional biodiversity conservation strategy was based on the findings from a robust phenomenological </span><span class="fontstyle1">study conducted among purposively and randomly sampled key stakeholders in biodiversity </span><span class="fontstyle0">management in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The document aims at offering comprehensive information and guidelines to conservationists on effective ways of implementing traditional knowledge systems in biodiversity conservation issues in Ghana. It ultimately aims at filling the </span><span class="fontstyle1">dearth in traditional knowledge systems that have been an age-long problem for the conservation ministries and agencies in Ghana. The information presented in the traditional biodiversity </span><span class="fontstyle0">conservation strategy would offer another lens to addressing conservation issues in Ghana while acting as a viable complement to the scientific models. This would ultimately maximize and enrich the conservation strategies for managing Ghana’s biodiversity.</span> </p> 2022-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Dickson Adom https://academic.jozacpublishers.com/index.php/books/catalog/book/2 Innovations in Teaching and Learning in the COVID-19 Crisis 2021-10-03T15:45:31+00:00 Jozac Publishers books@jfppublishers.com Barbara Sawicka barbara.sawicka@up.lublin.pl Krishnan Umachandran umachandran_k@hotmail.com Ng Siew Foen siewfoen@umk.edu.my Gary John Confessore gjcon@gwu.edu Mohammad Affiq Kamarul Azlan affiq.ka@umk.edu.my Valentina Della Corte valentina.dellacorte@unina.it Azizul Hassan azizulhassan00@gmail.com Giovanna Del Gaudio giovanna.delgaudio@unina.it Giuliana Nevola giuliana.nevola@unina.it Simone Luongo simone.luongo@unina.it Alaa El Din Mahmoud alaa-mahmoud@alexu.edu.eg S. Kalirajan kalirajan@lntipm.org Santhosh Loganathan santhosh.loganathan@lntipm.org Amuthalakshmi Periasamy amuthalakshmi@mssw.in Igor Jurcic ijurcic77@gmail.com S.H. Hengky hengky_halim@yahoo.com.au Mohammad Affiq Kamarul Azlan affiq.ka@umk.edu.my E. S. M. Suresh esmsuresh@gmail.com R. Mahalakshmi mahabs69@gmail.com D. Dinesh dineshd@bitsathy.ac.in Alaa El Din Mahmoud alaa-mahmoud@alexu.edu.eg Nazia Akhtar rashmia@pu.edu.bd <p><span class="fontstyle0">In late 2019 and early 2020 till now, the education systems globally were hit with the insurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many educational institutions were not adequately prepared to host online teaching and learning activities because structurally, they were ill-prepared. Therefore, educators need to innovatively come out with workable strategies to assist in the effective delivery of teaching and learning activities at all educational levels. This book scholarly explores possible innovative strategies that could be implemented to enhance teaching and learning during the sudden strike of the entire educational systems in countries following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses theoretical and practical approaches in implementing various learning management systems, digitalizing knowledge management practices, and offering psychological strategies for both students and teachers to adapt to the technological swings brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p> 2021-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Authors