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This study is one of the first systematic attempts to assess technological capabilities of African manufacturing firms, to estimate their technical efficiency levels and to analyze the significance of technological capabilities in determining firm level technical efficiency. Technological capabilities are broadly defined as the skills and knowledge needed to set up and efficiently operate modern industry. Using firm level data in Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, the study evaluates components of...

Introduction - Education for Indirect Rule, Peasant Produc tion and Western Civilisation 1919-46 - The Adaption of Pe asant Production: The Case of Nyakato - Education for Self -Government, Capitalist Development and Citizenship 1947-6 1 - Mass Adult Education and Community Development: The Ca st of Singida District - Education for Socialism, Self-Rel iance and Social COmmitment 1962-81 - Societal Innovation Through Education: The Community School Movement 1971-82 - Education in the Context...

African Americans make up more than 25% of the students in special education, but account for less than 10% of the teachers in special education and 5% of the faculty in higher education special education. The reasons for the shortages of African American personnel in special education are diverse, but most can be explained largely in terms of poor academic and financial support. Much has been said of the "leaking academic pipeline that fails to produce African Americans for university...

In its bid to contribute to the various efforts aimed at improving the teaching/learning of mathematics in our schools, the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, instituted a workshop on the production of teaching modules in the school system in the country. This simple paper concerns itself with the provision of guidelines aimed at preparing appropriate teaching modules in mathematics with special attention, focused on applied mathematics that has been introduced into the mathematics...

Previous articleNext article No Access"The Morning Cometh": African-American Periodicals, Education, and the Black Middle Class, 1900-1930Michael FultzMichael Fultz Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 80, Number 3Summer 1995 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2717550 Views: 22Total views on this site Journal History...

One of the issues facing the new democratic government in South Africa is that of curriculum reconstruction in science education and training. The years of apartheid rule have seen these areas locked in outmoded, decontextualized forms, which have become dysfunctional for the whole community. The result is a human resource development profile which rests near the bottom of international norms. For its part, the democratic movement has vigorously challenged the policies which have given rise...

The paper reviews the current situation with respect to occupational health epidemioloyy carried out in Africa through search of three international databases on health publications and review of the published papers. The literature search reveals a dearth of published work despite the enormous numbers of problems and hazards faced. The paper outlines the problems and progress made in occupational health research in Africa, and identifies the main constraints within the nature of the...

Basalts of the Silali volcano are of high-Fe transitional affinity and range from plagioclase-phyric varieties, probably formed by selective accumulation, to aphyric. They have compositional similarity to oceanic island basalts, but are isotopically variable and have strong, negative Zr anomalies on chondrite-normalized plots. Major and trace element and isotopic evidence indicates that the basalts represent several liquid lines of descent, each equilibrated at crustal pressures. All Silali...

Abstract The authors examine changes in the perceptions of student teachers as a result of a structured professional experience in a culture and environment different than their previous life experience. For the past 13 years the University of New England has conducted an annual Professional Experience Visit (PEV) to a remote rural area in Papua New Guinea involving trainee teachers and staff of the Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies. Participants were volunteers who met...

Abstract The authors examine changes in the perceptions of student teachers as a result of a structured professional experience in a culture and environment different than their previous life experience. For the past 13 years the University of New England has conducted an annual Professional Experience Visit (PEV) to a remote rural area in Papua New Guinea involving trainee teachers and staff of the Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies. Participants were volunteers who met...

Abstract The focus is upon the initial or preservice training of students and to what extent students can be guided to bridge the gap between theory and practice in their field experience (Teaching Practice) by means of distance education. The entire Teaching Practice program of the HED student at Unisa is contained in a tutorial letter (workbook) as an instrument towards guided self study.

The author examined the sex behaviors and attitudes of 111 high school students with a steady partner in the Kingdom of Swaziland. Data were collected through participant observation during 1987-88, discussions with key informants during 1987-88 and 1990-91, and in-depth structured interviews with the adolescents from rural and urban government high schools. 78 of the students were coitally active, with 57.5% of boys and 68.4% of girls reporting first coitus at 16 years of age or younger....

Water pollution was recognized as a problem by the Romans, and has increased steadily as man strives for progress by exploiting natural resources. Zimbabwe's problems are small compared to countries in the North - and the Government is determined to keep it that way.

Matched‐race perceptions of teacher immediacy of African‐American and Euro‐American college teachers were compared. African‐American (N = 77) and Euro‐American (N = 113) college students at matched‐race colleges completed versions of the teacher immediacy scale and indices of cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning. Consistent with the general hypothesis guiding the study, teacher immediacy scores were higher for the African‐American teachers than the Euro‐American teachers....

Abstract The purpose of the school described in this paper was to outline a new national curriculum for a new and free Namibia, and the particular project in question illustrates the question of power over the curriculum, as exercised by representatives of (sometimes) conflicting values, in a lived cultural and curricular setting. An important point in this discussion is the evolution of competing ‘codes’ for the content of the curriculum, each connected with one of the ethnic groups that...