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The main purpose of conducting this research study is based on the effect of outdoor education on the concept attainment at elementary level Science subject. It was hypothesized that outdoor education has significant positive effect in logical concept attainment of ‘Scientific processes’ in Science at elementary level. The objectives of the study were to explore and investigate the concept attainment of scientific processes in Science and student level of participation in an interactive social experience. The population of the study was 8th grade students of elementary level. The Educators school was conveniently selected and 60 students from 8th grade comprised the sample of study. Two groups were formed and one was designed as control group and other was experimental group. The researcher conducted pretest before teaching the selected topics. The experimental group was taught with outdoor education method and they were exposed to natural environment for having practical learning of the selected concepts and control group was taught through traditional method of teaching. After 12 days of teaching to the both groups the researcher administered post test on both the groups. The t-test was applied on the raw scores of both groups which showed that there was significant positive effect of outdoor education on student learning. It was observed by the researcher that students of the experimental group took more interest in their leaning process as compared to the control group. Keeping in view the results it can be recommended that practical activities and learning through nature can be made an integral part of teaching at elementary level so that students show more interest in learning science.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between domestic violence and depression among women. The sample was consisted of 300 women from the Gujrat city. The respondents’ age ranged from 20 to 60 years. Partner Abuse Scale (Hudson, 1992), and Depression Subscale (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) were used for data collection. Results were computed by applying statistical techniques including correlation and t-test. Findings indicate that there was significant relationship between domestic violence and depression. The finding also reveals that higher level of domestic violence had insignificant mean difference between working and non-working victimized women, also for victimized women of rural and urban areas while there was significant mean difference between victimized and non-victimized women.

The study entitled, “Impact of Vocational Education and Training on Women’s Socio-economic empowerment” aimed at measuring social, economic and household empowerment of women through Vocational Education and Training from Sargodha division. In this quantitative study self-administered questionnaire was used as a tool of data collection and it consisted of 36 questions. Questionnaire was filled by 211 respondents who passed out the training course from Vocational Training Institutes (VTIs) in the years 2013 and 2014. For empirical analysis, Correlation and Regression was used to see the relationship between vocational education (dependent variable) and Socio – Economic empowerment (independent variable). Data from the sample showed that majority of the respondents considered that vocational education is very helpful to empower women. Majority of the respondents feel that the training course increased their employment opportunity. Improved standard of living, participation in daily activities, more confident in social relations, freedom of expression, freedom of mobility, participation in major decisions of family, consulted in purchasing household accessories and independent to attend family and friend’s functions were the major responses reported by the respondents. On the basis of the aforementioned findings, it is suggested that yet greater investments must be made for meeting the emerging demands of women empowerment and the network of VTIs should also be increased to remote areas where women are in greater need of empowerment.

In Pakistan, civic education is being given at different levels through different subjects like Pakistan Studies, Social Studies, Islamic Studies, and linguistics. However the contents so taught are mostly related to the aspect of value education. After reviewing the related literature it is observed that in the education so given, civic skills are not that much focused as compared to the values. In this context the present study was made to gauge the level of awareness, perception and practices of the students towards civic skills at tertiary level, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

This study was conducted to explore the experiences of overseas students studying in Chinese universities. The objectives of the study were to analyze the cultural and learning experiences of International Students and to assess the students’ level of satisfaction with academic and other facilities offered by Chinese universities. Semi-structured interview protocol was used to gather data. The population of the study was post-graduate International students studying in Chinese universities. Owing to the limited time available for the study and other constraints, a purposive sampling technique was used. In total twenty five students from eight Chinese universities were interviewed. A literature review revealed that a vast array of studies have been conducted for the assessment of ‘culture shock’ , particularly social and academic shock to International students in a foreign university as well as level of satisfaction with academic and other services offered to International students by host universities. The findings revealed that all students interviewed had undergone cultural and academic shock, however, the degree of intensity varied individually. The majority of the students expressed feelings of satisfaction with the academic and other facilities offered to them by university, though language barrier and teacher-centered teaching model were significant problem emerging from the study. The most significant finding was the difference of opinion between Asian and Western students about cultural shock.

Review of the Book "Masla-e Qaumiyat Aur Marka-e Din-o Watan" written by Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan, Fateh Publishers, Lahore: 2016, Pages 136, Price Rs. 300