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In Ilorin, Nigeria, 788 cases of eclampsia were managed between 1968 and 1987, giving an incidence of 4.2/1000 deliveries. Five hundred thirty-five of the patients were nulliparous and 353 had received some form of antenatal care. There was no apparent change in the pattern of eclampsia over the years. The predisposing factors to developing eclampsia are examined and suggestions offered for the prevention of eclampsia in third world countries.
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School mathematics in the 1990s is preoccupying the minds of many in the developed and developing nations. In particular, much concern has been expressed about school mathematics in the developing nations. There are doubts about any meaningful achievements in many developing nations. But there are certain areas on which many developing nations should concentrate immediately if meaningful results are to be expected in the 1990s. This paper therefore deliberates on immediate priorities or...
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Public sector management education in the developing countries of the third world is focused on with regard to the situtation in Nigeria. The efforts and potential of a particular management training institution, the Faculty of Administration at Obafemi Awolowo University, are reviewed, first by tracing the development of its management training programmes and then outlining the current courses and activities. An assessment is made of the institution′s programmes as a credible management...
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This investigation is an attempt to explore the possible relationship between moral judgment scores and religious attitude scores of ninety‐five Algerian students, University of Oran, Algeria. The age of the whole sample ranged from nineteen to twenty‐six years with a mean age of 23.6. Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT) was used to assess the participants’ moral judgment, and a religious attitude scale devised by the author was employed to assess their religious attitude. Statistical analysis...
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The pertinent literature is reviewed and a paradigm or a framework is presented to guide conceptualisation and implementation for the programme development process in educational administration in an African country, Rwanda. The framework components include four dimensions and related systematic conceptual levels and procedural stages. It is argued that improvement of education requires the definition of the goals of educational administration, the upgrading of the instruction for on‐the‐job...
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Abstract This article analyses curriculum changes that have accompanied the reform movement to desegregate private and religious schools in South Africa. In a context of racially segregated State schooling, the 'open' schools have admitted students of all races to what were previously white schools. An examination of the curriculum practices of these schools reveals different patterns in terms of the extent to which schools have modified their practices to acknowledge their black enrolments,...
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One thousand seven hundred and fifty one Secondary school girls aged 12 to 19 years were interviewed by means of a self-administered questionnaire. 416 (23.8%), of them reported to have been sexually experienced at the time of the study. 4.1% of the sexually experienced girls had started sex below the age of 10 years, some of whom had been raped. The low and middle class private schools in the city centre had higher incidence of sexually experienced girls. The same was observed in those...
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(1990). The teaching of African literature in anglophone African universities: An instructive canon. Wasafiri: Vol. 5, No. 11, pp. 13-16.
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This article aims to encourage the provision of the Zimbabwean mbira dzavadzimu in schools as a means of experiencing a novel musical system. It provides an outline of the mbira's cultural context within an oral tradition. The basic structure of the mbira pattern is abstracted and represented by four types of notation which makes the music accessible to a range of people. However, the characteristic ‘inherent rhythms’ that emerge kaleidoscopically from patterns and variations throughout...
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The study was conducted to determine whether provision of oral supplementary iron to primary school children in Kenya would improve their growth. Children in the two lowest grades who satisfied study criteria were allocated to either an iron-supplementation group (n = 29) or a placebo group (n = 26). At the baseline before intervention the groups did not differ significantly in age, sex ratio, prevalence and intensity of intestinal helminthic infections, most anthropometric measurements or...
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Over the past two decades there has been an unprecedented effort in the world, parti cularly in the Third World, to combat illiteracy because it is considered an impediment to human progress. While many writers, politicians and educators do not claim an absolute and deterministic role for literacy in development, they argue that literacy is an essential component of both individual and societal development. Using Tanzania as an example, this paper argues that literacy training in most...
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The study investigates the effects of schooling on the way males of northeastern Nigeria prefer to sort dissimilar stimuli into equivalent groups. A picture-grouping instrument was constructed, field-tested and administered to 130 Tangale males. The sample was composed of farmers, pastors and teachers. Results showed a positive and significant correlation between the amount of schooling and the number of superordinate strategies used for making groups. There was no correlation between the...