Alkali metal-containing NKX-2 (M-NKX-2) aluminophosphite crystals were hydrothermally synthesized in the Al2O3-P2O5-Me2O-H2O system for the first time using various alkali metal hydroxides (MOH: M = Li, Na, K, Cs). The results showed that NKX-2 crystalline phase could be obtained within several hours without using harmful organic amine structure-directing agent. In addition, the alkali metal hydroxides played an important role in controlling the crystallization rate and the morphology of M-NKX-2 particles in aqueous medium. The resulting M-NKX-2 solids possessed basicity which was catalytically active in base-catalyzed cyanoethylation reaction of methanol.
This paper focuses on Social Studies Education (SSE) and Guidance and counseling (G&C) as mitigating the multifarious problems of the Nigerian youths. It sees guidance counseling and Social Studies as having a meeting point in the areas of behavior modification for productivity and citizenship development. In view of this expositions, the paper discusses headings such as concept of Social Studies Education and Guidance and Counselling viz: their meeting points, Nigeria’s multifarious problems, the psycho-social needs of the Nigerian youths, Towards Meeting the Psycho-social needs and support for the Nigerian youths, G & C and SSE: Mitigating the multifarious problems of the Nigerian youths and factors militating against effective SSE and G&C in Nigerian schools. Among the suggestions are made that government at all levels of governance should provide adequate funding to deal with the inadequate infrastructure in the education sector so that education can be used as instrument of positive change among the Nigerian youths, Population explosion that rocks the Nigerian institutions should be adequately addressed by both the federal and state government through provision of infrastructural development to cater for the ever increasing enrolment so that the behaviour modification mission of Social Studies and Counselling can be achieved.
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