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This is a Workshop Paper on a topic “From known to unknown: language and Literature learning and teaching in Uganda”
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During June of 1996, I served on a short-term mission team that worked with Liberian refugees living in the Cote d'Ivoire. I taught public health, while colleagues taught the Bible and general education principles. We understood that refugees are persons who must leave their homes in a hurry, most often under frightening conditions, carrying with them as much as they can. When visiting with the Liberian refugees, it became apparent that this description did not adequately convey the horror...
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A sample of 555 students from three geographically and socioculturally different areas within the Southern Highlands Province, between the ages of 12 and 15 years, was examined in June 1995 to assess the oral health status for planning, monitoring and evaluation purposes. The prevalence of dental caries was found to be 57%, with a DMFT (decayed, missing and filled teeth) score of 1.70 (+/- 2.25) with DT, MT and FT scores of 1.47, 0.12 and 0.10 respectively. 54% of students had active caries...
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The development of educational facilities for children with special educational needs has become a universal priority. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1996) received information from 52 member states as to legislation pertaining to special needs education. Forty-eight countries (92.3% of the member states involved in the study) enacted legislation pertaining to special needs education, whereas the remaining four countries (7.7%) have active proposals....
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A survey of 1500 students in post-secondary institutions in southwest Nigeria showed that the concept of emergency contraception (EC) was well known. Respectively, 32.4%, 20.4% and 19.8% knew that combined pills, progesterone only pills and intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) were usable for EC, while 56.7% mentioned the use of traditional methods. Only 11.8% had ever used either pills or IUCD and 10.7% had used a traditional method. Few students (11.5% and 2.3% respectively) knew the...
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This study explores the amount of occupational ophthalmology that it is possible to encounter within an existing teaching hospital system, as this offers the primary training facilities for resident doctors who expect to specialize in occupational medicine. The study was based on an analysis of ophthalmology patient records available at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, which is Nigeria's largest teaching hospital. One thousand, three hundred and thirty-four patients with eye disease...
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As in most countries in the developing world unsafe abortion devastates the health and lives of women in Ghana. It is the highest single contributor to its maternal mortality ratio of 740 deaths per 100000 live births. Although complications of abortion are treatable delays in prompt treatment increase the risk of morbidity and death. To address the problem of unsafe abortion and delays in seeking care for women a comprehensive operations research project aimed at improving womens access to...
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The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the influence that multicultural infusion would have on preservice teachers in an educational psychology course. Eight educational psychology classes at the same university participated in research to assess preservice teachers' attitudes toward teaching African American students. All classes were taught by teaching assistants. One class was geared toward infusing multiculturalism into the course. Five additional classes were taught by...
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One important component of health promotion, including sexual health, is the devel opment of personal skills. It is believed that a young person who has developed such skills will be better equipped to enact safe behaviours in risk situations, provided she lives in an environment that supports healthy choices in several other ways. While organisations in most countries in the world do teach young adolescents some life skills related to AIDS in schools and community programmes, indicators to...
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Diatom genera in many large East African lakes change little throughout the Holocene period suggesting relatively stable ecological conditions and some resilience to environmental change. Ecosystem stability is less common in smaller, more sensitive lakes, such as those within volcanic craters, where external impacts can cause abrupt and rapid fluctuations. A 4100-year diatom and cyanobacteria pigment record from Lake Massoko, a volcanic crater lake in southern Tanzania, is used to...
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The study looked at the knowledge and attitudes of social work students in Mauritius regarding AIDS. Seventy-six students participated in the survey. Results indicate that although a majority had excellent to good knowledge about AIDS, they lacked suffi cient information in crucial areas of AIDS prevention. As many as 80.2 per cent were supportive in their attitudes towards AIDS victims. Knowledge and attitudes did not significantly differ with respect to age, gender, ethnic group and marital status.
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A prerequisite for correcting ineffective education is the examination of research on the learning environments of successful schools and the conditions and processes that enable quality outcomes. The research described in this article supports the Talent Development philosophy, which rejects deficit-based "talent sorting" models of schooling and promotes widespread academic success in appropriately supportive environments. The study delineates the common organizational characteristics of...
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To investigate the attitudes and beliefs of clergy from African-American churches towards sexuality education and the provision of sexuality education in their churches.A pilot study was designed to survey a convenience sample of clergy leaders from African-American churches about their young adolescent members. The survey asked about priority health topics, prevalence of sexual and drug risk behavior and the clergy's desire for health education programs. The churches were located in a...
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This investigation compares the performances of 24 African American children, diagnosed as language impaired (LI) and receiving school-based language therapy, to 2 groups of typically developing peers ( N = 48) on 5 traditional types of language assessment measures. Three of the measures were derived from child-centered free play language sample analyses and included average length of communication units (MLCU), frequencies of complex syntax, and numbers of different words. Two of the...