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Exploring Students’ Personality Traits and Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence and its Adoption in Higher Education Learning Experience
(Pan-African Journal of Education and Social Sciences (PAJES), 2025) Marie-Anne Razafiarivony; Janet Nyaboke Odhiambo
Artificial Intelligence is advancing rapidly, promising efficient and effective learning methodologies in the educational sector, including the higher education sector. In particular, AI has facilitated the customization and enhancement of students’ learning experiences. Apart from technological factors, personality traits play a role in the extent to which students adopt AI. This study investigated how students’ personality traits from a postgraduate institution influence their attitude toward AI and their willingness to adopt new technology. This study employed a thematic qualitative methodology. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to collect data. The findings suggest that the relationship between personality traits and attitudes toward adopting new AI technology is complex. On one hand, personality traits seem to influence the adoption of AI technology. On the other hand, the perceived usefulness of AI technology also appears to trigger personality traits and encourage them to adopt new technology. Furthermore, self-efficacy and positive experiences indirectly influence the adoption of the technology, whereas negative experiences enhance caution in using the technology without necessarily discouraging its use.
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Blending the Traditional Career Management with the New Career Management in Organizations
(East African Journal of Management and Business Studies, 2023-12) Prof. Marie-Anne Razafiarivony, PhD
While organizational career management practices have undergone several changes over the past decades, one way to enhance employees' quality of life is planning and managing career paths. Whereas people perceived the career management concept as a long-term contract between the employing organization and the employee (referred to as traditional career management), today there is the idea that it can be a short-term transactional contract, termed new career management. Although organizations may adopt the new career approach, it may not have taken hold for every industry or organization. Within the same organization, there may exist a need to integrate both the traditional career management approach with the new career management approach in dealing with employees, based on the needs of the latter. This paper summarized characteristics of both career models and proposed ways in which organizations can blend both types of career management, using the theory synthesis design.
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Mentoring teenagers to reduce bullying in Adeleke University High School, Ede, Osun State of Nigeria
(Adventist University of Africa, 2026-02) Olaoye, Abiodun Oluwasegun
Bullying among teenagers is common in schools nowadays, especially among preteens and teenagers. Various methods have been used in the past to address this social challenge among secondary school students, but what is happening today in schools shows that bullying is still prevalent among teenagers in secondary school. Hence, this project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate a mentoring strategy to reduce the impact of bullying on teens at Adeleke University High School. A pre-post descriptive methodology was used to compare a cohort of students who participated in the mentoring program. Teachers are trained to be mentors offer support and aid to students who have been bullied or are affected by it. The project aimed to empower students and foster resilience by creating a safe and welcoming environment. Informants included administrators, instructors, counsellors, parents, the disciplinary committee, and students. Notably, five (5) individuals worked as study assistants for the researcher. Data collection, processing, and analysis were done concurrently using Statistical Process Simulation (SPS). The quantitative method yielded useful data for developing an intervention. However, the intervention was deployed two weeks after it was developed in the school and consisted of three activities: data collecting, mentor training, and mentors mentoring students. This study adopted quantitative research methods. Questionnaires were effective for gathering data before and after the intervention plan was implemented. The processed data was used to evaluate the program's effectiveness. The evaluation indicated significant gains (90%) in students' positive involvement with one another and academic performance when compared to before the intervention was implemented. The results indicated that the intervention had a positive impact on both students and the school environment. Furthermore, feedback from both mentors and students underlined the significance of the mentoring relationships developed and used throughout the program. These interactions not only promoted a feeling of community at Adeleke University High School but also helped pupils gain self-esteem and motivation. As a result, the school administration is considering expanding the program to include more students and resources to preserve the current positive momentum in an environment where students feel respected and empowered.
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Exegetical study of the term σαββάτων in Colossians 2:16 and pastoral implications for lay preachers in Central Ghana Conference
(Adventist University of Africa, 2026-01) Okoffo-Asante, Samuel
This thesis re-examines the meaning and referent of σαββάτων (sabbatōn) in Colossians 2:16 within Paul’s wider paraenetic argument (Col 2:6-23). It evaluates the theological and pastoral implications of the passage for lay preaching in the Central Ghana Conference. The study addresses a persistent interpretive dispute in which Colossians 2:16-17 is often deployed either to annul weekly Sabbath observance or to restrict Paul’s warning to “ceremonial” days, often without sustained attention to the practical demands of congregational instruction. Methodologically, the thesis employs a historical-grammatical approach integrating lexical-semantic analysis, syntactical and structural observation, and intertextual comparison with Old Testament and Second Temple patterns that illuminate Paul’s calendrical triad (“festival, new moon, sabbaths”). Particular attention is given to the rhetorical function of Colossians 2:16 as a conclusion flowing from Paul’s christological claims about fullness in Christ and the invalidation of “ordinances” as grounds for spiritual status, as well as to the socio-religious pressures facing a mixed congregation exposed to ritualism, ascetic regulations, and mystically inflected spirituality. The study argues that the anarthrous sabbata in Colossians 2:16 operate within a stock calendrical formula whose Old Testament usage is repeatedly embedded in sacrificial contexts, thereby supporting the conclusion that Paul’s target is the cultic-ceremonial complex of sacred times, together with the food-and-drink regulations and offering practices associated with them, functioning as “shadows” now eclipsed by the christological “substance.” On this reading, Paul’s polemic is directed toward ritualised and judgment-producing features of sacred-time observance rather than toward the creational and covenantal rationale of the Decalogue’s Sabbath command. The thesis further contends that Paul’s instruction is simultaneously functional, addressing a concrete Colossian crisis of condemnation, and normatively enduring in its theological principles: Christ’s sufficiency, the rejection of ritual criteria for spiritual hierarchy, and the incompatibility of judgmentalism with the gospel. Finally, the thesis distils pastoral directives for lay preachers, emphasising disciplined contextual exegesis, Christologically framed Sabbath teaching that avoids both legalism and antinomianism, and practical strategies for public apologetics and interdenominational engagement in Ghana’s contested Sabbath discourse.
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Understanding complicated grief after child loss among young mothers in Mombasa, Kenya: a theological and psychosocial desk research study
(Adventist University of Africa, 2026-04) Namasaka Martha Simuli
Child loss remains one of the most devastating experiences a mother can endure. In Kenya, and particularly in Mombasa County, high rates of neonatal mortality, infectious disease, poverty-related complications, and limited access to mental health services create a context in which young mothers are uniquely vulnerable to prolonged and complicated grief. This desk research study examines complicated grief among young mothers in Mombasa through interdisciplinary lenses of psychology, theology, feminist theology, and socio-cultural analysis. Drawing on peer-reviewed literature, theological texts, and African contextual scholarship, this study explores the psychological characteristics of complicated grief, cultural constructions of motherhood and mourning, and the theological resources available for pastoral response. The research synthesizes contemporary grief theory, including the work of J. William Worden, Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, and Katherine Shear, alongside African womanist theologians such as Mercy Amba Oduyoye and Musa Dube. Findings indicate that complicated grief among young mothers in Mombasa is intensified by stigma, silence around reproductive loss, economic vulnerability, gendered expectations, and inadequate pastoral and clinical support. Theologically, African womanist perspectives offer a framework for lament, communal healing, and resistance against oppressive structures that silence maternal grief. This study proposes an integrated pastoral-psychosocial model for supporting bereaved young mothers and recommends policy, church-based, and clinical interventions tailored to the Kenyan coastal context.