Browsing by Author "Adikata, Adnan Ali"

The purpose of this study was to investigate faculty members` perceptions towards student libraryh use. The study was designed to identify the level of importance faculty members place on student library use and libraryh-based assignments. It also examined the roles and responsibilities of the faculty members and librarians in giding and supporting student library use as perceived by the respondents. An adapted survey instrument was administered to all faculty members at the departments of Usuluddin and Comparative religion, Qur`an and Sunnah and Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used to analyse the data. The findings reveal that faculty members felt that student library use is essential in enticing students` intellectual intelligence, increasing self-esteem and self-confidence, familiarising them with literature in their fields of study and improving their general communication skills. The study reports that faculty members valued library-based assignments because they increase students` awareness of the worldview. They preferred library assignments to be designed for focus and survey courses. Although they trusted the students` use skills, the faculty members emphasised the importance of learning library use processes. It was also reported that it was part of the faculty members` roles and responsibilities to motivate students to want to use the library, desiign library-based assignments, and provide extra credits and graded assignments to students. They didi not regard designing library-bases assignments to be time consuming. However, they also felt that the librarian should help students learn how to find information, make them feel at home and ensure the availability of up-to information in the library. The study concludes by providing some recommendations and suggestions for further studies.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of exposure to dramatised entertainment on the conceptions of social reality by the Ugandan audience. The study was guided by the following research questions: (1) Does exposure to Nigerian dramatised entertainment influence social reality perceptions of Muslim audience? (2) Are the effects of exposure to Nigerian dramatised entertainment on social reality perceptions of the Muslim audiences moderated by any variable? Employing George Gerbner`s cultivation theory, this study focused on the long-term and frequent effects of Nigerian films as a companion to live and grow with. This research concentrated on the steady, pervasive and extensively shared conjectures, representations, and conceptions exhibiting the established features and interests of Nigerian films as depicted on television. A total of 544 respondents were proportionately sampled from the four campuses of the Islamic University in Uganda using stratified and simple random sampling. Analyses of the social reality perceptions were incorporated while utilising regression analysis statistical procedure. The findings demonstrate proof for the cultivation effect in Nigerian films across a number of dependent variables. Exposure to Nigerian films contributed significantly to perceived prevalence of visits to witchdoctors, perceived prevalence of witchdoctors, perceived prevalence of crime and perceived efficacy of witchcraft. It also influenced respondents` acceptability of witchcraft, and fascination with the Christian community. The findings also presented evidence for cultivation in the first and second-order effects. Nonetheless, proof for cultivation effects did not show up in Islamic practices, and fascination with Christian institutions. Similarly, a test of interaction showed that the observed relationships were not a function of any moderator variable.