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Data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) for the years 1988 to 1992 are used to explore the science experiences of young African-American women during the high school years. The comparison groups we use in trying to understand these experiences involve White women (for a race contrast) and African-American men (for a gender contrast). Within the context of a critical feminist perspective, it is argued that gender is constructed in a different way in White and...
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This article reports on an ethnographic field study of project work in a grade 7 class in a disadvantaged primary school on the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa. The purpose was to explore the potential use of project work (encouraged by the new South African school curriculum with its emphasis on continuous formative assessment) for information literacy education. The study found crucial gaps between official policy and classroom practice. Teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning...
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This report provides a summary of a symposium held in Zanzibar in March 2000. It was the third of four meetings planned for each of the four developing geographical regions to identify the range of technologies available in the region and to outline the barriers to their use by women as distance learners and distance educators. The summary report provides synopses of the 13 African countries involved, outlines the process of the meeting, and provides the recommendations of the participants.
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Since the installation of the first democratically elected government in 1994, South African higher education has been facing the daunting task of addressing substantial social transformation. The restructuring of higher education creates a number of new opportunities for researchers to contribute to social, political and economic development in the country (Segal 1998). However, the South African higher education research community is still trying to overcome the heritage of the previous...
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This paper analyzes the links between child labour and poor school performance, using data gathered in Ghana in recent years. Author Christopher Heady moves away from conventional studies on child labour and education, which tend to focus on low school enrolment and attendance. He goes further, to examine the day to day impact of child labour on those in school, finding that, as well as leaving children too tired to learn, child labour robs them of their interest in learning. Children who...
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The election of the first democratic government in 1994 produced great social changes in South Africa. The new government introduced new inclusive policies and legislation and created new institutions, including new labour laws, the desegration of educational institutions, the development of a single integrated national qualification system and the introduction of industry supply side measures and regional strategic development initiatives. This paper describes the re-engineering of the...