Entries by Admin Ijssers

Applying Stakeholder Theory and the Garbage Can Model to Decision-Making in PE Curriculum Optimization at Vocational Colleges

With educational reform advancing and emphasis on students’ holistic development growing, optimizing PE curricula in vocational colleges has become a complex challenge. This study examines it by integrating Stakeholder Theory and the Garbage Can Model, adopting a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews. The findings show it’s a multifaceted process with conflicting interests, ambiguous objectives, limited […]

Knowledge Management (KM) Practices at Northeastern College: Insights from the College of Liberal Arts Students

One of the competitions in the knowledge economy is becoming increasingly crucial, and many HEIs are adopting knowledge management as a tool to sustain their market position. This study aims to determine and analyze the level of awareness and knowledge of the respondents from the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern College regarding knowledge management […]

When Marriage Ends and Self Begins: Women’s and Children’s Narratives of Annulment

The experience of marital annulment involves profound loss and disruption, yet it may also create opportunities for healing, growth, and renewed agency. This narrative inquiry explored how women and their children made sense of life before, during, and after annulment. Specifically, it addressed two questions: (1) How do women understand and construct meaning from their […]

Relationship of Parenting Style to Socio-emotional Learning Development of the Students in the Basic Education Center of Northeastern College

Parenting styles and socio-emotional learning (SEL) development in Santiago City, Philippines, Basic Education Center pupils are examined in this study. To better affect student development in school, the introduction emphasizes understanding this relationship. Stratified random sampling was used to choose Grade 1-6 pupils and their parents or guardians for a quantitative correlational study. The Parenting […]

Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Resources Management: Investigating the Implications in Public Sector Performance in Nigeria

The study investigates the legal and ethical issues in human resource management (HRM) and their implications for public sector performance in Nigeria. It seeks to determine how compliance with HRM legal frameworks and ethical practices influence employee motivation, job satisfaction, and overall organisational performance. Anchored on Social Exchange Theory (Blau, 1964), the study argues that […]

Emotional Intelligence as a Resource Generator: A Conservation of Resources Perspective on Academic Burnout

Anchored in Conservation of Resources theory, this study synthesizes three empirical pathways (emotion regulation, social support and self-efficacy) into a single “emotional intelligence as resource generator” tri-path model that explains both the emergence and the buffering of academic burnout. A narrative meta-integration of ten cross-stage, cross-cultural studies published 2015–2025 reveals that the salience of each […]

From Crisis to Healing and Reconnection: A Narrative Inquiry into the Intergenerational Transmission of Teenage Pregnancy in St. Maarten, Caribbean

This narrative inquiry explored and examined the lived experiences of eight paired mothers and daughters (16) who have experienced teen pregnancy on the Island of Sint Maarten, Caribbean. Through structured interviews, the study aimed to look at the various patterns that are contributors to the phenomena of Intergenerational transmission of teenage pregnancy: the family dynamics […]

Educating with Love: Compassion-Based Education as a New Path to Developing Religious Tolerance

This article discusses the practice of compassion-based education as a relatively new approach to developing religious tolerance at Peacesantren (pesantren, Islamic boarding school) Welas Asih Garut, West Java, Indonesia. Departing from criticism of tolerance education models that tend to be normative, cognitive, and based on formal doctrine, this study offers a new perspective that affection, […]