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Accepted: 18.04.2013 This article draws on a case study of six facilitators who were teaching Publishing Research in 2011 at one of the universities in South Africa. Publishing Research was offered by two campuses of this institution. This article gives these facilitators a voice and also identifies and defines the intended, implemented and attained learning outcomes for the module. The six facilitators claimed to be using the same learning outcomes in helping students to achieve the aims in...
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We ran logistic regression on a data from a sample of 186 teachers and 393 secondary school graduates in order to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial skills acquired by graduates from technical subjects taught in secondary schools in Kenya and the graduates’ self-employment. The study was carried out in Mombasa and Bungoma counties with the secondary school graduates of 2009, 2010 and 2011. We find that the odds ratio of a secondary school graduate starting a business from the...
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In order to assess the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence among teachers in Burkina Faso, we carried out a national survey in 336 primary and secondary schools from urban and rural areas. Among 2088 teachers who agreed to participate, 1498 (71.7%) provided urine for HIV testing. The crude prevalence of HIV among teachers was 2.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.0–3.6), with no difference between teachers from primary schools (2.9%, 95%CI: 2.1–4.0) and those from secondary schools...
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Rational use of antibiotics in poor-resource settings countries is challenging. In order to assess the factors related to antibiotic prescription, a cross sectional study was carried out in four school infirmaries from February to June 2008 in the district of Allada in Benin. For each patient, socio-demographic characteristics, symptoms motivating medical visits, diagnosis and therapeutic prescriptions were collected. A malaria rapid diagnostic test was used in case of fever. Data were...
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Abstract This article examines the potential and limitations of Megan Boler's ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ in a post-apartheid yet heavily racialised South Africa. Taking an ‘ethnographic sensibility’ to anthropological teaching, this paper sketches the social and historical context of discomfort produced by everyday classroom practices at a historically privileged university. This paper argues that new patterns of thought, if achieved at all in the course of learning through ‘discomfort’, are...
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Many coasts feature sequences of Quaternary and Neogene shorelines that are shaped by a combination of sea-level oscillations and tectonics. We compiled a global synthesis of sea-level changes for the following highstands: MIS 1, MIS 3, MIS 5e and MIS 11. Also, we date the apparent onset of sequences of paleoshorelines either from published data or tentatively extrapolating an age for the uppermost, purported oldest shoreline in each sequence. Including the most documented MIS 5e benchmark,...
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This study sought to establish students’ perceptions of the usefulness of teaching approaches employed by lecturers in one university in Zimbabwe. The study was informed by the constructivist theory of learning. The study adopted a descriptive survey approach which utilized both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Data were collected from students in five Faculties in the selected university. A random sample of one hundred and ten students, comprising of sixty-five male and...
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Brendan Maughan-Brown is grateful for funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research for his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Atheendar S. Venkataramani is grateful to the Massachusetts General Hospital Global Primary Care Program for travel and research support. Opinions expressed and conclusions arrived at, are those of the authors and are not necessarily to be attributed to the NRF. Sources of Funding: Funding for this study was...
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This report is a program user’s manual for the Cycling in the African American Community (CAAC) safety training intervention. The CAAC safety training intervention was designed to “nudge” more African Americans, who are often beginning cyclists or non-cyclists, to participate in a physical activity that promotes health and builds community. One of the most cited reasons for not riding is that cycling is perceived as being unsafe. The CAAC intervention attempts to address this issue through a...
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The paper examines the utilization of NGOs in changing conceptions over what makes a person educated and the advantages and liabilities that presenting one's-self as educated provides among Malawian small farmers. Through an ethnographic account it will be demonstrated that locally embedded actors incorporate the presence of a variety of NGOs in their education related negotiations and meaning making. It is argued that the presence of NGOs provides opportunities for many of the less...
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In developing nations, the spread of STIs/HIV infection continues to affect millions of young and productive population. In Ethiopia youths including university/college students are at greater risk of STIs including HIV infection often due to many risky sexual behaviors. Although there are some anecdotal evidences suggesting widespread unsafe sexual practices among university students, the paucity of research finding, especially in newly established public universities are the major bottle...
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At the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000, governments pledged to achieve education for all by 2015. However, if current enrollment trends continue, the number of out-of-school children could increase from current levels. Greater focus is needed on lower secondary school age (13 – 16 years) children. These children are not included estimates of the number of out-of-school children. It will be difficult to reduce the number of out-of-school children if we continue to overlook children of...