ACADEMIC MOTIVATION LEVEL AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIAL STUDIES AMONG PUBLIC SCHOOL SECONDARY STUDENTS IN ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY PHILIPPINES

In a Social Studies, students' academic motivation and attitudes will be useful to their academic progress. If a student is enthusiastic about a subject, he or she will do better in class and learn faster. There have been a lot of studies that have looked into students' academic motivation and attitudes toward social studies, but there does not appear to be any study that focuses on the learners themselves. This quantitative study aims to determine the level of academic motivation as well as the attitude toward social studies of 458 secondary students from public schools using the Academic Motivation Scale High School Version and Secondary Students Attitudes Towards Social Studies Scale. It also looked at whether there was a significant difference in academic motivation and attitude toward social studies when respondents were sorted by gender. Finally, it investigates the link between academic motivation and attitude towards social studies. Students are found to be "highly motivated" in terms of academic motivation and have a “positive attitude” toward social studies, according to the findings. Furthermore, when respondents were divided into gender groups, no significant differences in academic motivation and attitude toward social studies were found. Finally, academic motivation and attitude toward social studies show a significant favorable relationship.

Impact of Cross-Cultural Marriages on the Rights of the Child: Analytical Study of Shariah Rulings & International Legislation a Case Study of Pakistan & United Kingdom

This thesis primarily focuses on Islamic and English Laws concerning the rights of the child particularly Islamic concept of ╒a╔┐nah, which is considered at conflict with the latter. Thus, major aim of the study is to dilate on the judicial underpinnings on the crosscultural custody disputes, relocation of the children and conflicting areas between English and Pakistani Family Laws. Insofar as it also attempts to figure out the similarities and dichotomies between the two on very vital and real issues of simmering custody disputes between Islamic and English Laws in the eventuality of breakup of institution of marriage. The research work seeks to find out answers to the judicial problems arising in the wake of cross-cultural custody disputes and removal of child from habitual residence resulting from the separation between cross-cultural parents. It has also made an effort to bring out the conflicted areas and lacuna in Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, offering few suggestions/recommendations to harmonize both laws, whilst judicial problems and conflicting areas are discovered by scrutinizing the clauses of Hague Convention and Case Law. In the end, findings reflect that although significant differences prevail in both the legal systems but nevertheless International law and Shar┘‘ah rulings can be harmonized to some degree after the reconstruction of the contradictory provisions as both laws are considered playing dominant role to protect the interest of the child in custody disputes.