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Abstract Background Despite the existing national and international plans of action to end violent discipline strategies used by teachers in schools, it still prevails in Tanzanian schools. This underlines the need to implement school-based interventions that aim at reducing violent discipline by teachers. In this study, we will evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers in Tanzanian primary schools....

The Journal of Social Inclusion (JoSI) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that will contribute to current knowledge and understanding of the social processes that marginalise individuals, families and communities. The journal will be published bi-annually under the guidance of an International Editorial Advisory Board. The Journal of Social Inclusion (JoSI) is an initiative of the School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University.

Demands for health services are increasing in all countries of the world.
 Both affluent and less affluent countries are starting to realise to the importance of nurse practitioners to enable comprehensive health services to be made available to more people at cheaper cost.
 The training programme for hospital paediatric nurses in Papua New Guinea has been designed to allow them to carry out effectively their future role of taking responsibility for the screening, diagnosis and...

<span>Frequency and intensity of drought have troubled sustainable agriculture and worsened food insecurity of Ethiopians. This study aimed to investigate climate change-induced agricultural drought over the moist-cool and moist-warm climatic zones, using historical precipitation and temperature data recorded in the crop growing months for 35 years. The changes of temperatures and precipitation were analyzed using Mann Kendall trend test. Agricultural drought indices were analyzed...

In Sierra Leone, where there are few female educators, over 500 formerly marginalised women are on track to become qualified primary school teachers in rural districts. As ‘Learning Assistants’, the young women follow a combined programme of tertiary college distance study and in-school work experience. Learning Assistants help teachers and children in village primary schools. At the same time, their distance studies guide them on child-friendly practice and subject knowledge. We will...

Background: Optometry training in KwaZulu-Natal has embraced a decentralised approach in keeping with other health professions. Decentralised clinical training enables health science students to gain clinical exposure at public hospitals during their undergraduate training using a service learning strategy. The perspectives of key stakeholders in this collaborative agreement between the provincial department of health and local academic institutions were unexplored. Aim: The research aimed...

Given the current demands in higher education that emphasize the need to change teaching and learning strategies, it is necessary to understand what is being done by teachers and students in a scenario that impels the progressive empowerment of student work and confronts teachers with the challenge of promoting in those skills, as well as techniques. Student success or failure is closely related to the organization of teaching institutions and the way teachers teach. This article aims to...

Abstract The Greater Horn of Africa region increasingly experiences high risk of water scarcity. A combination of frequent droughts, rapid population growth and rising urbanisation has reduced streamflow and intensified water abstraction, causing water and food shortages. Estimates of future streamflow changes in the region have so far been highly uncertain and evaluations using ground-based measurements are still limited. Here, future streamflow changes are estimated using a distributed...

The study focuses on caregivers’ personal reasons for not having openness in communication regarding sexuality education messages with their children. Qualitative semi-structured focus group discussions with six caregivers per school from four different socio-economic status schools in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were conducted and analyzed using Thematic Content Analysis. Caregivers’ lack of self-confidence as a credible source of sexuality education, the powerlessness they feel and denial...

The Angolan Presidential Decree n o 160/18, of July 3, implicitly seeks to generate a new perspective of curriculum management, defining the limits of autonomy to teachers as curricular agents. However, there are some dissonances between the norm and the practical reality on the ground. In this sense, the present article seeks to analyze the curricular autonomy of the teacher in the light of the referred legislation in order to verify if it guarantees the educational success of the students....

The Angolan Presidential Decree n o 160/18, of July 3, implicitly seeks to generate a new perspective of curriculum management, defining the limits of autonomy to teachers as curricular agents. However, there are some dissonances between the norm and the practical reality on the ground. In this sense, the present article seeks to analyze the curricular autonomy of the teacher in the light of the referred legislation in order to verify if it guarantees the educational success of the students....

With the global population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050, there will be a continuous need to increase food production and buffer stocks to meet the growing demand and efficiently cope with volatilities in food production and prices (UNDP, 2015).

OP-Ed on Arts Education in Kenya published by The Kennedy School Review: https://ksr.hkspublications.org/2019/09/12/arts-education-a-human-right-in-kenya/

The existing huge global neuropsychiatry disease burden compared to the available meagre human resources underlines the need for alternative innovative approaches in psychiatry. The low middle income countries have very few psychiatry specialists who cannot meet the demand at current and even in the near future. In the Kenyan context, the prevalence of Common Mental Disorders is ∼10.8% in a country with less than 100 psychiatrists. This has a negative impact to the patients who suffer from...

The academic literature on open educational resources (OER) and practices in higher education has grown substantially over the past decade. OER is seen to offer endless possibilities for Sub-Saharan African universities by reducing costs of education, improving quality of education, as well as increasing access to quality education for all, among others. Sub-Saharan African universities though, are notably underrepresented in the literature, especially on differentiations, be it on access to...

Mozambique has a high prevalence of gynecologic cancers . Does not have a trained gynecologic oncologist or a formal training program in gynecologic oncology. There are challenges associated with building a new training program in this setting. The International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS) Gynecologic Oncology Global Curriculum & Mentorship Program is a two-year training

The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of a group of South African English Second Language (ESL) Foundation Phase teachers' understanding of, skills in, and training needs to teach phonological awareness (PA) effectively. A qualitative research approach placed within an interpretative paradigm was utilised in two phases. The findings of the first phase reported in this article emphasised Foundation Phase (FP) teachers' inadequate knowledge of PA and their inability...