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Abstract Background: Data on student experience of the clinical learning environment in Ghana are scarce. We therefore aimed to assess students’ evaluation of the clinical learning environment and the factors that influence their learning experience. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey of 225 undergraduate nursing and midwifery students. We used the Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision + Nurse Teacher (CLES +T) evaluation scale to assess students’ experience of their clinical...

This chapter discusses the restorative justice principles and practices in African schools. Restorative justice practices in schools, which are based on relationships and not rules, are indigenous to the African communities' ways of conflict resolution and reconciliation. Restorative practices in schools cast a wider net than restorative justice in the courts. The main pillar of the foundation of restorative practices in schools is the teacher. The foundations of restorative practices in...

ABSTRACTBased on the findings of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) needs assessment study carried out in 2016, international best practices in education systems and curriculum reforms, and a desire to make learning more meaningful for the Kenyan scholar Government's initiated an overhaul the 8–4–4 education structure to Competency-based learning because it did not promote wholesome learning. Competency-based education and training is an approach to teaching and learning...

The study aimed at investigating the coping strategies adopted by public secondary school teachers in Ogun State, Nigeria. Today, Nigeria’s macro-economic factors ranging from inflation and the inability of the government to reward teachers adequately may have precipitated teachers to engage in other activities for additional income. The study was anchored on Equity Theory propounded by Adams which explains fairness in terms of the treatments of employees in the workplace. The study adopted...

The current study aimed to identify the ways of raising the motivation of learning among tenth-grade students in public schools in Salfit governorate, according to the gender variable, the number of family members and the level of academic achievement. The researcher used the analytical descriptive approach to achieve the research aims, and the questionnaire was the research tool which applied on a sample of (83) students from the tenth-grade students in Salfit governorate. The results...

Human Rights Education (HRE) often forms the cornerstone of addressing human rights issues at the local level where nongovernmental bodies in partnership with human rights agencies deliver various initiatives. Such agencies mostly operate from a neo-colonial framework as addressing structural and political power struggles limits addressing structural transformation for most vulnerable populations. There is a gap in the existing literature about the sense-making of such roles and...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic begins in China in 2019 and because of the connections of China with the rest of the World in trade and businesses, the virus started to spread quickly around the World. This rapidly spread causes serious negative effects on education, small, medium, and large businesses, economic, health, food security, employment, traveling, environment, energy, market, even causes countries to take loans and their debt rises. The specific knowledge about COVID-19 also...

Detecting Plates in road traffic streams is the most important phase in Automatic License Plate Detection and Recognition (ALPR). ALPR is used in several applications, like motorway road tolling, border control, and parking systems. Recently several techniques were proposed to solve this problem. High prediction accuracy and fast ALPR is necessary. Egyptian license plates (ELP) are considered one of ALPR's difficult types due to the variety of plate types, ranging from standard to...

Abstract Background Anaemia is one of the major public health problems. It affects over 1.6 billion individuals of all age groups globally. Ethiopia is one of the seriously affected countries. Hence, the aim of this study is to assess the effect of nutrition education intervention (NEI) on anaemia prevalence and its predictors of preschool children in Pastoralist and Agro-pastoralist community of Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia. Methods A group randomized controlled trial was conducted among...

Engaging prospective teachers in collaborative inquiry into their own processes of learning was the driving intention of the collaborative action research (CAR) course which was part of a teacher education program at a college of education in Eritrea in the academic year of 2018/2019. The course led by the first two authors was collaboratively designed and developed by the authors who were closely and regularly working as passionate learning community of educators who are committed to enact...

The effect of the human activities on the coastal area are enormous. They include impacts on natural resources, coastal stability, environmental quality, and the cultural environment. The instability condition is the predominant feature of the Egyptian coastal zone due to natural and anthropogenic effect. This paper discusses the stability conditions of the sediment within the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal zone. It includes the sediment sources, degradation of resources, reasons and side...

The effect of the human activities on the coastal area are enormous. They include impacts on natural resources, coastal stability, environmental quality, and the cultural environment. The instability condition is the predominant feature of the Egyptian coastal zone due to natural and anthropogenic effect. This paper discusses the stability conditions of the sediment within the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal zone. It includes the sediment sources, degradation of resources, reasons and side...

Introduction Following the adoption of the World Health Assembly Resolution WHA 65.21 and Neglected Tropical Diseases road map 2021–2030, schistosomiasis control programmes have shifted from morbidity control to disease elimination. However, several gaps continue to be observed in the implementation of control programmes with certain age groups omitted from these campaigns increasing health inequalities and risks of reinfections to previously treated groups. We used the Inverse Variance...

Introduction Following the adoption of the World Health Assembly Resolution WHA 65.21 and Neglected Tropical Diseases road map 2021–2030, schistosomiasis control programmes have shifted from morbidity control to disease elimination. However, several gaps continue to be observed in the implementation of control programmes with certain age groups omitted from these campaigns increasing health inequalities and risks of reinfections to previously treated groups. We used the Inverse Variance...

Since the 1990s Kenya has been plagued by persistently low primary education outcomes. In the early 2000s, having identified the need to improve education services to increase global competitiveness, Kenyan politicians and policymakers began pursuing education system reform. Between 2003 and 2013, institutional and policy reforms led to an increase in enrolment of nearly 30%. In 2013, the government shifted its focus to enhancing education quality. However, traditional approaches to...

Career decision-making, particularly among high school students, is something that all students should carefully consider since it has ripple effects in one’s life. This paper presents an overview of peer pressure as a factor that influences career decision-making among high school students in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. A quantitative research approach was used in the current study. A survey design that made use of questionnaires in collecting data was used. Descriptive statistics were...

The aim of the present study was to examine challenges associated with the use of social media in sharing academic information. The research has used the cross sectional research design. The participants in this study were 120 students at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. These participants were chosen through systematic sampling. The data were collected by a questionnaire. SPSS was used for data analysis. Frequency, percentages and mean was the descriptive statistics employed...

Inspired by the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child, educational policy makers in Africa are requesting schools to implement democratic practices in the classroom. This study attempts to shed light on the effects of classroom democratic practices on cognitive and non-cognitive learning outcomes using cross-sectional data from Francophone African countries. To simultaneously account for endogeneity and the nested nature of the data which are issues inherent in the schooling process, use is...