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This study sought to assess knowledge management and teachers' job performance in public secondary schools in Education District I of Lagos state. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and the population for this study comprised all the 2122 teachers in public senior secondary school in Education District I of Lagos State. Stratified sampling technique was used to group the schools into 3 strata namely Agege, Alimosho and Ifako-Ijaiye local government areas under Education District I of Lagos state. Simple random sampling technique was implored to select 106 teachers from schools in each of the local government areas. This brings the total number of teachers to participate in this study to 318 representing 15% of the total population. The instrument used to gather information was questionnaire and the data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical tools. The findings of the study revealed that a significant relationship existed between knowledge sharing and teachers' job performance; knowledge mapping and teachers' job performance, and knowledge utilization and teachers' job performance. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that a good knowledge management environment should be created to encourage the creation, sharing and use of new knowledge to improve teachers' job performance and school administrators should encourage knowledge sharing by organizing seminars for teachers to share knowledge among themselves.

Global education plays an increasingly important role in enriching students' learning experiences in US institutions of higher education. Students are connected to the world through global culture, economics, politics, technology and immigration. This paper examines the perceptions of 305 graduate students and alumni concerning the need for global education programs in the United States. Participants shared their views of the importance of global education in understanding today's economy, culture, and environment, while addressing our future needs and challenges. There were no significant statistical differences between the perceptions of graduate students and alumni or between those of international and American students in regards to the importance and benefits of global education.

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique leads to discussions about how education can be remade, and respond to the educational imperatives of our time, particularly as they relate to ecological crises and human-nature relationships. It will be of great interest to students and researchers of sociology, education, philosophy and environmental issues

1 The "Plight of Civility" Today -- 2 Civil Conduct: Tolerance, Deliberation and the Possibility of "Justified Incivility" -- 3 Civility and Mutual Fellow-Feeling -- 4 Educating Civility in Schools -- 5 Moving Beyond the "Plight of Civility" and Future Research on Civility and Democratic Education.

Party control over higher education in reform-era China has been a relatively neglected topic in the extant literature. Seeking to remedy this neglect, this article focuses on an aspect of the topic that has remained unstudied in Western scholarship: namely, the post-1989 regime's efforts to strengthen and professionalize political education (PE) in universities by intensifying the 'disciplinary construction' of PE. The article finds that these efforts have been partially successful in meeting the regime's objectives. The training of PE teachers has been considerably professionalized; PE courses have become more attractive and effective; and more students tend to accept the Party-sponsored views and policies taught in PE courses, and to support Party leadership. (J Contemp China/GIGA)