While several studies have investigated the unique features of Bahamian Creole, there have been to date no academic studies analysing Standard Bahamian English, the language of formal communication in the Bahamas. This study fills this gap in the literature. Using the methods of corpus linguistics, the study presents some of the unique features of Standard Bahamian English in comparison to other international variants of English, specifically British, American, and Jamaican English. For methodological purposes the texts analyzed are limited to the genre of newspaper reportage. Features analyzed include keywords and word counts.
As an institution that has, since its inception, focused primarily on teaching rather than research, The College of The Bahamas has, following other Bahamian public institutions, not traditionally produced substantial empirical studies of Bahamian society and educational practices. Accordingly, this report presents the findings of a student exit survey of the largest first-year writing course at The College of The Bahamas, a study designed to measure students' perception of learning in the course. To facilitate comparison, the survey instrument generally followed publicly available survey studies of first-year composition students at other postsecondary institutions. While the exit survey suggests that students perceive the course as a whole to be beneficial for their development as academic writers, there is some evidence that students, in their responses to the survey, over-represented their learning in the class. Based on the data, the authors make several suggestions for improving student experience and outcomes in first-year writing courses at The College of The Bahamas. These suggestions include offering students more opportunities to learn library research strategies and building connections between writing instructors at the College of The Bahamas and secondary school English teachers in the Bahamas.
This paper reports on the first known study on childhood harm towards animals in The Bahamas. Using the Children and Animals Inventory (CAI), an Internet survey involving 1,558 respondents allowed childhood harm towards animals, to be investigated in the context of other violent behaviours in the child's home. The homes of children who did not harm animals were less violent than the homes of children who harmed animals. Consistent with other studies, males were more likely to harm animals than females; further, males were more likely than females to harm sentient animals. While the use of violence to train children was not associated with a higher CAI score, domestic violence and the presence of a gun in the home were associated with a higher CAI score. The implications of these findings as they relate to the treatment of living creatures are discussed.
As the University of The Bahamas begins the post-Covid turn, The Bahamas is, like the rest of the world, still taking stock of the long-term effects of Covid-19 on the way we will work and live in the future. Following this, Shamel Rolle Sands and her collaborators at the University of Alberta have contributed an article promoting the Job-Demands Resource model as a tool to analyse why nurses leave their jobs and the profession, particularly in the (post-)Covid environment.IJBS continues its mission of informing public discussion in The Bahamas with empirical research. Recently, studies, both past and present, originally published in IJBS have been mentioned in both the Nassau Guardian and Tribune. In fact, research on the issue of marital rape in The Bahamas by William Fielding and Virginia Ballance presented in this issue has already been featured in local newspapers and other local media.
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