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This chapter discusses major approaches to the environmental history of Africa in terms of the drivers of environmental change, including both human and non-human factors. This allows for the contextualisation of what currently is considered perhaps the largest single environmental threat: global climate change. A key factor in identifying Africa as the most vulnerable continent is the perception that African societies are directly dependent upon their fickle environment. Africans are often...

Language policy and Linguistic Landscapes (LL) are a highly contested area in South Africa. Due to Apartheid, the education system constitutes the core of such contestation. In Post-Apartheid South Africa the new Constitution of 1996, the South African Schools Act (SASA) and recent political initiatives such as the Use of Official Languages Act of 2012 form the foundation of language policy at schools. The Constitution declares 11 official languages on a macro-level. Nevertheless, English...

The following chapter discusses the acquisition and transmission of climate change ideas, knowledge, and perceptions in the Makonde District in Zimbabwe. It argues that knowledge of weather and climate in Makonde Shona society has primarily been acquired through informal pathways and is inextricably linked to agricultural practices. Climatic transformation is understood and explained through cultural beliefs, ideas, folklore, and riddles concerning agrarian knowledge. Climate change in...

This paper explores students’, preservice teachers’ and inservice teachers’ perceptions of the contributions and challenges of using participatory visual methodologies (PVM) to enhance HIV education in rural schools. Drawing on findings from three research projects conducted in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, four positive contributions are identified: 1) novelty, fun and engagement; 2) amplifying youth voices; 3) the facilitation of teachers’ reflexive learning; and 4) the production of local...

Africa’s urban population presently totals 439 million people or forty per cent of its total population, a share that is expected to rise to 1.1 billion or 56 per cent by 2050. Urbanisation is constituted not only in terms of demographic and land expansion, but also in the transformation of the environment and social conditions in the growing urban centres. As the world’s shelter and economic hubs, urban areas account for more than seventy per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions....

Background: Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific multisystem disease and it is associated with increased maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Any factor(s) which could reliably predict the likelihood of serious complications would be very valuable in predicting the associated adverse outcome. Objective of this study compare maternal and fetal outcomes of preeclamptic patients with normotensive control in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria.Method:...

Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) has attained the status of an epidemic in slow motion. Gestational DM (GDM) is a subtype of DM, which occurs in pregnancy. As part of a baseline assessment, the knowledge of GDM was determined among women of reproductive age. Methods The study was a descriptive cross-sectional household survey involving 2,595 women of reproductive age residing in five local government areas in Southern Nigeria. It employed a multistage sampling technique to collect data...

Early childhood is characterised by an immense spurt of growing and learning where under-nutrition can have adverse effects on the neuro-developmental health and school performance of children. A full understanding of the relationship between school performance and motor functioning skills and malnourishment in school beginners is still lacking.To determine the association between indices of under-nutrition and how it relates to school performance and motor functioning skills of first-grade...

This chapter explores how climate change as a global idea travels to and is (only marginally) translated in Simanjiro, Maasailand, in northern Tanzania. It examines the possible reasons for why the idea of climate change is largely rejected in the village of Terrat. While the Maasai are said to be among the most vulnerable communities to the future effects of climate change, their own understandings of climate and environment bear little resemblance to this travelling idea. This chapter...

Community based institutions play significant role for community livelihood buildings in a given community. This research had attempted to examine how community based institution(s) initiated watershed development project has a significant impact for the development of climate change adaptation mechanisms, and livelihood improvements. The main purpose of this study was to identify the role of community based institution for the development of adaptation mechanisms and its determinants. The...

The study investigated the efficacy of 5E learning strategy on the academic achievement of Physics students in Rano Education zone, Kano State-Nigeria. A pretest posttest quasi-experimental research design was adopted for the study. simple random sampling technique was used to draw 2 intact classes of 61 males and 46 females. The stated hypothesis was tested using independent z-test at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that students taught Physics using 5E learning strategy...

Purpose: The study assessed the effects of household food security on academic performance among pupils in Mukuru informal settlement, Nairobi County.
 Methodology: The population of the study consisted of 7565 participants from Mukuru. Stratified, purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select a sample size of 205 respondents (100 children, 10 teachers and 85 parents from the study area, and 10 officials from the Ministry of Education), who responded to the...

Nowadays with migration issues, the increasing enmity between the north and the south, the analysis of the economic cutch-up of developing countries is becoming more and more relevant under the principle “think globally and act locally”. In our research this year – based on our personal relationship – we have chosen to analyse tourism in Africa, in particular, Mozambique. Our main theme focuses on the role of training and management, because we believe that among the elements necessary for...

The study investigate a series of selected heavy metal pollution of soil, the extent of their uptake by Telfairia occidentalis and Amaranthus cruentus as well as their ecological risk around dumpsite in Chanchaga Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Soil samples were collected at 15 cm depth with the aid of soil auger and vegetable samples were collected from dumpsite and other samples with no activities served as control. The soil samples were collected at random and their physicochemical...

Abstract. Limited research has focussed on historical droughts during the pre-instrumental weather-recording period in semi-arid to arid human-inhabited environments. Here we describe the unique nature of droughts over semi-arid central Namibia (southern Africa) between 1850 and 1920. More particularly, our intention is to establish temporal shifts of influence and impact that historical droughts had on society and the environment during this period. This is achived through scrutinizing...

This study explored the effectiveness of learning technology by design in the development of in-service science teachers’ competencies of integrating technology in science and mathematics teaching in Tanzania. The learning of technology by design involved a workshop, collaborative design of technology-integrated lessons and classroom teaching. A total of 26 science and mathematics teachers from two selected secondary schools (13 from each) participated in the design of technology-integrated...

This paper reports on the history, features, and challenges of School-Based Professional Learning Communities (SBPLCs) in China to elicit lessons for Tanzania towards improving in-service teacher professional development. Based on the Chinese SBPLCs, this review aims to provide some insights to educational planners and teachers in Tanzania on how to establish and maintain effective school-based professional learning. This analysis used 30 journal articles published over the past twelve years...