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| Dr. Mrs. Juliet Muoneme |
To
confirm this assertion, the first seminar presentation I witnessed was that of
a candidate defending his PhD after 12years.
I then
went into Covenant with God, to connect me with the right people as my
Supervisory Team. I promised God I will tell of His kindness if He does it for
me. And that my degree was going to be a sign of my dedication to His call.
The
first connection was a Spiritual Father, Rev.
Fr. Isek, who continued to support me in prayers and gave me one assignment
or the other on a spiritual journey for God's speed in my academic endeavour.
During
my Masters, we were 65 in Science Education Department (Masters and PhD
Students of same Department). I graduated with one of my colleagues from
Katsina State. Out of the two of us, I proceeded immediately for PhD in the
same Department.
The
following are the outline of my success:
1.
Prayer
2.
Hard work
3.
Good Supervisory Team
4.
Humility
5.
Relevance of my topic
Prayer
PS
127:1 says: Except the Lord build a house, the builders build in vain. From day
one of my studies, I committed the studies unto God's hand, committed my life
for His course and dedicated to service in His Vineyard. I attended Mass every
day except on few occasions, after which I'll visit Jesus at the Blessed
Sacrament to remind Him of my presence in ABU Zaria and the reason why I was
there. I attend adorations every Tuesday asking God to see me through. In fact,
my life was Church and school.
Hard work
After
Mass and brief moment at the Blessed Sacrament, I drive to school premises.
Hang around until any of the classrooms is opened, or I go to the main Library.
Because of my early arrival at the campus on daily ground, even the security
men at the various gates and the cleaners knew me. And I remembered after
greeting them, they always pray for me with the words 'Allah ya taimaka'
meaning, may God see you through.
I
always resume school on time but leave late. At the main Library, all the
security men and women knew me. Since I wasn't the outing type, I worked and
worked. Anytime, I go to collect my work from any of the supervisors, I go with
the file straight to the library to
commence corrections in order to submit that same day or the following day.
Good Supervisory
Team
The
Lord blessed me with three supervisors that were not antagonists. They were dedicated
and each had specific roles they played during my studies. My first supervisor,
Professor Isah A. Usman, was an
angel, an encouragement, an inspiration, a bundle of humility and a role model.
He sacrificed so much for my work that even when he was in Sabbatical in Gombe,
he was still attending to my work every two weeks. He used his airtime to call
me anytime he was done with my work. He would sit me down to explain anything
he wanted me to do concerning my work at any time. He would even give materials
to guide in case I was confused. He made sure I dint jump any aspect of my
research in order not to have problem with defence at any stage. He was a
father away from home. He is a role model.
My
second supervisor, Dr. M. R. Bawa,
was like a spiritual adviser. He would always watch my countenance and start
advising. He would always assure me that it will be over. My third Supervisor, Rev. Dr. S.S. Obeka, was a technical
adviser. He would always look at the work with critical eyes and advise and
insist on a change where he feels I may have problems later. He was a very
principled man.
The PG
Coordinator: This was in person of Dr.
I. M. Ibrahim. I came to understand that even if you have good Supervisory
Team, the PG Coordinator can cripple or slow down your work. This is because,
if he or she did not fix a date of defence or contact all the necessary people
or did not present your candidacy at any point in time, you aren't going
anywhere. Dr. Maruf, as we popularity called him, was a rugged man. He is a
mathematician to the core. He worked 48 hours within a 24 hour schedule. He was
highly instrumental to all the dates of my defence and even the selection of
internal and External Examiners
Collaboration with
other Lecturers in humility
I made
sure almost all the Lecturers in the faculty were aware of my work. I deliberately
printed any stage of my work and gave them to critique. They'll advice and
correct. No single lecturer in my department did not in one way or the other
contribute. It was either, the person critiqued chapter one, or helped in
structuring the Literature review, or suggested one or two things in the
research methodology, or validated one or more of the research instruments or
was the statistician that analysed the research findings, just name it.
This
was an added advantage at any of my defence, because any of the lecturers will
always nod and say....'oh she's been working'. And of course I assumed a zero
personality as far as my relationship with my lecturers were concerned. I greet
and respect all, even if the person was not in my department. I enjoyed this
advantage when I saw the list of my internal examiners who were all drawn from
other departments, and behold, I was in their good book.
Relevance of my
topic
Before
commencing my write-up, I was given the opportunity to check through topics in
trend and situation report on as a Science Educator. My main supervisor and the
third supervisor who coincidentally were the seminar coordinators and assistant
respectively made me understand that research in Science Education must be
experimental, that I must go the field, and that it is all about what I have to
proffer as a solution in making teaching and learning of Science better. So my topic
and its researchability had to be screened seriously.
And
that is why at every stage of my field work, my Supervisory Team were interested
to know what was happening. I had my pilot test with the knowledge of all of
them, and they confirmed I was there for the purpose. In my field work since I
was researching on North West and
had three institutions to cover- Zaria,
Kano and Katsina, they sought to
know and they were aware of all my movement across the three places
Summarily:
the following were needed:
Prayer
Hard-work
Good
Supervisory Team
Collaboration
with other Lecturers in humility
Respect
for all
Good
PG Coordinator
Relevant
topic
I was
recently given an award: ‘Award of
Excellence in Educational Advancement’ by Nigerian Festival of Awards at Sheraton hotel Abuja
For
more information, contact:
Dr. Mrs.
Juliet Muoneme
+2348133531441,
WhatsApp: +2348092629914
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