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Alid volcanic center is a 700-meter-tall mountain in Eritrea, northeast Africa. This mountain straddles the axis of an active crustal-spreading center called the Danakil Depression. Though volcanism associated with this crustal spreading is predominantly basaltic, centers of silicic volcanism, including Alid, are present locally. Silicic centers imply a magma reservoir in the crust and thus a possible potent shallow heat source for a hydrothermal-convection system. Boiling-temperature...
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This paper is about the contribution of women to the moral health and uprightness of African society. It begins with a discussion of the role of women as moral teachers in African families and underscores the centrality of women in the moral upbringing of children. As part of their traditional care-giving roles, African women have been in a unique and strategic position not only to produce and sustain life but also to instill socio-religious values and moral standards in the family and...
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(1996). An Assessment of Efforts to Retain African American and Other Minority Students in Business Programs. Equity & Excellence in Education: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 18-18.
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Journal Article Majority African American Schools and Social Injustice: The Influence of De Facto Segregation on Academic Achievement Get access Carl Bankston, III, Carl Bankston, III University of Southwestern Louisiana Direct all correspondence to Carl L. Bankston III, Department of Sociology, P.O. Box 40198, USL Station, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 70504-0198. Email: Bankston@USL.EDU. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen...
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The paper explores the ways in which women's education influences domestic hygiene practices and use of health care services in a traditional agricultural village in The Gambia. The “environment of health” is one of poverty, high morbidity and low levels of female literacy. A detailed household survey was undertaken in the rainy season when agricultural work is demanding of people's time and energy and morbidity rates are high. Mothers with and without formal education and with at least one...
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While scholarly cautions are needed as regards both simplistic dichotomies and the subtle rhetoric that converts ‘civil society’ into a new sacred depository for ‘a wide range of emancipatory aspirations’, 1 frequently pitted against that ‘predatory species’ we call the state, 2 the view from Yaoundé suggests that questions about social classes are likely to be helpful in any analysis of the complex relationship between state and society in contemporary Africa.
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Attempts to explain women’s lack of achievement in educational management, both in countries in the developed world and in Africa, particularly Uganda. Suggests that women are hindered by both internal and external barriers which keep them from advancing; internally in the main owing to the effects of socialization and sex stereotyping, and externally because organizations so structure the behaviour of their workforce that women limit their performance because they are locked into low‐power,...
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Abstract Black managers form the primary target and major context of affirmative action programmes in South Africa‐‐programmes which are inherently educational. As its title suggests, this article investigates the social background, upbringing and educational experience of black managers engaged in large business organizations in Johannesburg. In many respects, the stories of these managers represent a narrow profile of the broader injustices of the apartheid era. However, the managers have...
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The following Reflection from the Field generates more heat than most such pieces that AEQ has published, to the point that we made space for the authors' rejoinder to the response. If read thoughtfully, though, it will generate light as well, especially for brand‐new fieldworkers but also for old hands feeling more comfortable than we ought about fieldwork. I am grateful to authors Mark Constas and Wendy Colyn and respondent Michéle Foster for putting themselves on the line to provoke a discussion about research issues that matter.
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Study objective: To describe the effectiveness of an emergency medical education program in a postwar developing country. Methods: A prospective, nonrandomized interrupted time-series study was conducted in an emergency department at a national referral hospital in Rwanda immediately after the 1994 civil war. Participants included 11 medical personnel staffing the ED comprising physicians, nurses, and medical assistants. International medical relief workers in the ED identified deficiencies...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a role-taking, action learning program on the cognitive and ego development of African-American rural high school students. The program employed instruction in scientific problem-solving in relation to past and current contributions of African-American scientists. There were two experimental and two comparison groups during the one semester program. The main effects were assessed in two related domains: (1) concrete to abstract...
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Abstract The research reported in this article comprises a field experiment in which a group of unlicensed teachers from community schools in an informal settlement were involved. The findings of the investigation, which was conducted with mostly qualitative data, indicate that these teachers' initial experience of computer literacy education is diagnostically important with regard to “bottom-up” construction of instructional theory and professionalization.