The ability to survive is one of the most important goals of business organizations recently, this requires the ability to communicate with the outside world and its changes so in order to achieve this communication; Marketing orientation concept emerged, which is has had a significant impact on how things are going in business organizations, because it focuses on examining the parties that could affect the organizations business and its goals. These parties are : the customer, competitor, and inter functional coordination in the organization, therefore, companies that apply the concept of market orientation remain abreast of the needs of its customers on the one hand ,and activates and movements of competitors on the other hand.

Recent developments in computer and web technology have prompted new revolutionary ways of using Information Technology in English language teaching. While there is evidence of the usefulness of ICT in the Moroccan language classroom, a wide range of factors and challenges still inhibit the widespread introduction and use of the new technologies as basic tools of teaching, and deter EFL teachers from adopting them to maximize targeted learning outcomes. The findings from the research suggest that there is no clear link between independent variables (teachers‟ socio-demographic and substantive variables) and the frequency of ICT use in the Moroccan English language classroom. However, and though they are not statistically significant, gender and computer literacy show some effect.

This study looked at if there was any significant difference between teachers‟ and students‟ perceptions on the ban of corporal punishment in school in Kosirai Division, of Nandi County public secondary schools by gender, age, highest level of education and experience in school. Descriptive-comparative survey research design was used. Fifty eight (58) teachers participated. Questionnaires were used to collect data from the respondents. Validity was determined by the use of expert opinion in matters education in the department of educational administration, curriculum and teaching of University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. The reliability of the questionnaire was done through a pilot study done in two (2) public secondary schools in Eldoret Municipality. Thirty (30) teachers participated in the pilot study. Cronbach‟s alpha of 0.6 was set as the cut-off point. The Cronbach‟s alpha for teachers‟ questionnaire was .654 T-test was used to determine the difference between the mean ratings of boys and girls, female and male teachers, age, teaching experience and level of education of teachers. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference between teachers‟ perception on the ban of corporal punishment in schools in Kosirai Division secondary schools when categorized by gender, age, education and experience. This study recommends that alternative ways of discipline be sourced and applied to avoid physical pain to students.

This study was geared towards appraising the curriculum status of integrated Social Studies in Kenyan primary schools in the wake of a lot of fluid content which keeps on changing day in day out. To deal with the quick changes there’s need to use Curriculum foundations sieves to allow only concrete content in the integrated Social Studies Curriculum. 250 teachers were sampled using stratified simple random sampling for teachers and purposive sampling for Tutors from the two Primary School Teacher Training College in Nakuru Sub County, the chair-persons of the Head teachers of the five zones of Nakuru Sub-County and the Quality Assurance and Standards Officers. Research Instruments were questionnaire and semi-structured interview guide. This research study adopted a mixed research methods approach. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were applied in the analysis of data. Findings show that the content of integrated Social Studies (SST) is beneficial to learners, it contributes to the attainment of the national goals of education, it has been changing very quickly within short span of time hence need to elongate time before next revision is done, the Social Studies teachers need to be taken for refresher courses to improve their teaching skills, there’s relationship among topics taught from one class and the next and that integrated Social Studies curriculum has integrated emerging issues. The recommendation is that the government through Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) should take time before reviewing Social Studies curriculum.

This study aimed to determine the level of transformational leadership practices by school principals in the national secondary schools in the state of Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. The four dimensions of transformational leadership studied were vision identification, modeling, goal acceptance and individual support. The study also looks at the level of organizational health as well as the relationship with the practice of transformational leadership by the national secondary school principals’. The respondents consisted of 226 teachers employed in 16 national secondary schools in the state of Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. The data obtained was analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Descriptive analysis and inferential analysis were used to analyze the influence of the relationship. The study found that school culture functions as a moderator in the relationship between the transformational leadership style of school principals’ and the organizational health of the secondary school teachers’ in the state of Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. In addition, school culture as a moderator in the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational health is a new discovery in the field of leadership. This is because the organizational health of secondary schools has never been investigated by local researchers. Most previous studies have highlighted transformational leadership and school culture has a direct influence on school improvement.

This study investigates the domestic dwellings built in Brisbane by twenty first-generation migrants, natives of the Veneto region in Italy, who migrated to Australia in the post WWII period and built their houses in the 1980s and 1990s in Brisbane. The purpose of this research study is to explore whether notions of culture were present in the homes migrants constructed in Brisbane, both in the material realm (interpreted as internal and external organization of space and the composition of the façade) and in the symbolic realm (the meanings attached to these houses by Italian migrants). The project is of qualitative nature and as primary sources of data uses semi-structured interviews, associated when circumstances made this possible, to photo-elicitation interviews, and focus group discussion. The semi-structured interviews were conducted both in Australia with twenty first-generation Italian migrants, and in Italy with another ten informants who are indigenous to the Veneto region and who built their homes there. These primary data are supplemented by (4) secondary data in the form of photographs and drawings. The findings reveal that home is both a physical structure and a set of meanings where these two components are tied together rather than being separate and distinct. It shows that there were two models the Veneto migrants chose for the erection of their houses in Brisbane and these correspond to: (1) the rural houses built in the 1970s and 1980s by their family and friends in the Veneto region and (2) the villas designed for noble families by the architect Andrea Palladio in the 15th century in the homeland of the respondents.

Open and Flexible Learning is an excellent method of reaching all types of learners. It is truly a medium that helps to democratize education to all. Today, we are currently experiencing a time of constant evolution in the field of education in which students require more resources and tools to obtain the information and construction of knowledge. One such resource is the use of open and distance learning environment, where the lecturer assigns additional activities for the understanding of the concepts seen before. But there are times when the student does not understand the content because of the form it represents, making it necessary to have more options to facilitate the understanding of content through different ways that may be more attractive to the students, achieving more active participation in the subject and an affinity that leads to a better learning experience. This is the goal of the study, which proposes a model called “Learning Buffet Model” for designing Open and Flexible Learning content adaptable to the student´s learning style. This learning buffet model can be used as a fundamental model and applied in any area or discipline of education as it forces the consideration of four components (leaning style, content, pedagogy and technology) in the design of the lesson plan and subsequently enrich the learning environment with more specific learning objects the subjects taught.