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  Apollo (1986) identified eight approaches to the study of Comparative Education. They are: 1. Problem Approach or Thematic approach 2. Case study approach 3. Area study approach 4. Historical approach 5. Descriptive approach  6. Philosophical approach  7. International approach and 8.  Gastronomic approach 1. Problem approach or thematic approach —   In this approach the investigator will first of all identify a particular educational problem in his own country. Then, he will begin to look for another country that has the same problem . —   The researcher will also study the education problem of another country in relation to their culture. The researcher will not only study the educational problem of another country but he will also examine the solution applied to such problem by the affected country . 2. Case study approach   —   In this approach, an education comparativist from Nigeria can go to Iraq to study the...

National factors of a country are closely related with nationalism and national system of education. In the study of Comparative Education we will discuss the factors which make the education of a country national. 1. Geographical Factors q   Chaube and Chaube: “The various countries of the world have different geographical positions. Therefore, their modes of living, culture, civilization, social institutions and education systems are also different. Geography affects every sphere of life and in many ways shapes the lives of a people”. q   The geography of any particular place is often natural, which means that it is undefined by man. Education system is influenced by the geography of the particular region. The geography of a particular area dictates the type of building and equipment, means and methods of transporting children to school, school going age of pupils among others. q   Three major geographical aspects… climatic conditions, population distribution...

In psychology, the word ' attribution ' refers to the inference made about the causes behind an event or behavior. If a car drives by you at the same time you hear a loud backfire, you are likely to infer that the sound came from the car; the sound's attribution is the car. Likewise, if a child performs better at a sporting event when his or her parents are in attendance, the improved performance is attributable to the parent's presence. Success or Failure Two people are in a race, and one of them wins. Did that individual win because he or she was a faster runner or because the other person was having an off day? The answer depends on which runner you ask. The winner will attribute the victory to his or her ability and feel confident about the next race. The loser will blame the loss on circumstances beyond his or her control (feeling sick, poor night's sleep, painful shoes) and be less likely to race again unless those factors change. A person's moti...

American David Clarence McClelland (1917-98) achieved his doctorate in psychology at Yale in 1941 and became professor at Wesleyan University. He then taught and lectured, including a spell at Harvard from 1956, where with colleagues for twenty years he studied particularly motivation and the achievement need. He began his McBer consultancy in 1963, helping industry assess and train staff, and later taught at Boston University, from 1987 until his death. McClelland is chiefly known for his work on achievement motivation, but his research interests extended to personality and consciousness. David McClelland pioneered workplace motivational thinking, developing achievement-based motivational theory and models, and promoted improvements in employee assessment methods, advocating competency-based assessments and tests, arguing them to be better than traditional IQ and personality-based tests. His ideas have since been widely adopted in many organisations, and relate closely to the theory...

In 1959, Frederick Herzberg, a behavioural scientist proposed a two-factor theory or the motivator-hygiene theory. According to Herzberg, there are some job factors that result in satisfaction while there are other job factors that prevent dissatisfaction.   Herzberg classified these job factors into two categories- a.      Hygiene factors Hygiene factors are those job factors which are essential for existence of motivation at workplace. These do not lead to positive satisfaction for long-term. But if these factors are absent / if these factors are non-existant at workplace, then they lead to dissatisfaction. In other words, hygiene factors are those factors which when adequate/reasonable in a job, pacify the employees and do not make them dissatisfied. These factors are extrinsic to work. Hygiene factors are also called as  dissatisfiers or maintenance factors  as they are required to avoid dissatisfaction. These factors describe the job env...