Arts and Social Sciences Journal

To keep pace with the changing learners needs resulting from social, cultural, psychological and environmental changes happening around the world as a teacher we get ample opportunities to train our students in their individual skill areas.

In this study, nursery school students were trained on “recycling of solid wastes” to develop their environment protection awareness. The study was designed with a pre-test post-test experimental model with a control group, which is one of the experimental study paradigms. The study involved 6-year old children attending two different nursery schools in Konya city center during 2009-2010 education year in Turkey. One of the two schools is located in a high socio-economic region and the other in a low socio-economic region. The sample group is composed of 120 students of which 60 students in the experimental group come from two classes in one school, and the other 60 students from two classes in the other school. In the analysis of the data, pre-test and post-test average scores of the students on the Recycling Scale and standard deviation of their distributions were calculated, and t-test was administrated to see if the difference is significant. The experimental group was instructed for 5 weeks with various simple environmental protection methods. After the instruction period, it was determined that the students in the experimental group outscored the students in the control group on the post-test. Thus, it was concluded that the instruction given was effective. Besides, it was found that recycling awareness level of students who received environmental education varied according to their socio-economic levels. Students from the school located in high socio-economic region were found to be more successful.

A survey on periodicals published by companies and professional associations. The partial review analyses the context from which the journals come out and how this reflects the evolution of the productive sector in Italy. The editorial circumstances related to the periodicals and organisational processes within companies and associations are assembled for a better understanding of aims behind the commitment to corporate publishing.

This paper provides philosophical analysis onto a fundamental force of human society and thus a fundamental parameter of any social system including economic system, which is fairness. It provides a brief explanation, through a simple deconstruction of the meaning and role of fairness in our everyday social life, about the nature and importance of fairness analysis in social studies. It could serve as an introductory discussion to the cultural transition from empirical investigation to rational analyses for social studies including economic studies.