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"The prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis among primary school children in Benue State, Nigeria." Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 83(2), pp. 197–198
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A secondary yet important result of the student uprisings that occurred in South Africa in 1976 (and intermittently since 1980) has been the growth of research on racially segregated schooling.' Increasingly, political activists and progressive academics alike have come to realize the importance of uncovering the of apartheid while opposing apartheid itself. The cooperation of community groups and intellectuals in the History Commission of the National Education Crisis Committee has...
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This study tested the hypothesis that anxiety positively correlates with duration experience within the framework of the cognitive approach. This was done by subjecting 45 high scorers and 45 low scorers in anxiety trait, to three conditions of stress during which they were required to carry out judgement of temporal interval. Duration experience was found to be longer with the high trait anxiety than low trait subjects. However, the stress conditions shortened rather than lengthened...
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (education) in the faculty of education, Kenyatta University 1989. LC 1047.K4B3
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After tracing the current educational and occupational status of adolescent fathers this article describes a number of community-based programs that were developed for these youth as well as for those who are not yet fathers. The programs are designed to empower adolescents to take charge of their lives and avoid early parenthood. The expected outcome of these programs is to enhance the self-esteem of these youth help them find meaning and value in the educational process and become...
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In virtually all the countries of the world, the need for staff‐development programmes for university and other higher education teachers has been recognized. Because the developed countries of Europe and of North America have a head start in the domain, specialists from these countries have frequently been called upon to create and to offer staff‐development programmes in the universities of developing countries. This article discusses the appropriateness of European conceptions of...
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This article describes the growth of a primary school in a rural area of Natal.
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Training evaluators presents a challenge under any circumstances. In nonacademic settings in the Third World, evaluation training is specially problematic. Methods and models of evaluation training, currently in use, are found wanting in one way or another. The participatory training model, for example, is viewed as overly ideological. UNESCO's Operational Seminar is seen as over-emphasizing the experiential but de-emphasizing the conceptual. Other available models and approaches to...
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More Third World schools have become accessible to women in recent years, yet increasing parity in enrollment rates does not ensure equal educational experiences or opportunities for all children. Girls may achieve access to a variety of educational institutions, but they can still experience inequality through various inschool processes responsible for socialization and the inequitable distribution of knowledge. Eliou's work on the education of girls in the Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and...
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There are five Quaternary volcanic edifices along the axis of the Turkana Rift of northern Kenya. From north to south these are the Korath Range, North Island, Central Island, South Island and the Barrier. Each of these edifices occurs in a structurally distinct segment of the active Turkana Rift. Preliminary studies of these Quaternary volcanics show that crystalliquid differentiation is an important process in all centers, though there is evidence of magma mixing, multiple intrusive...
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Biomass fuels, mainly wood, are burned under often primitive and inefficient conditions by about half the world's population as the major source of domestic energy. In a rural area in Kenya, air pollution measurements were carried out inside dwellings during the rainy season in connection with a WHO epidemiologic survey to the incidence of acute respiratory infections among children aged below 5 years. Respirable particles and NO2 were found in the order of, respectively, 10 times higher...
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Most medical schools in the developing world have been modeled on their counterparts in industrialized countries of the Northern Hemisphere. Their educational programs are not really focusing on the health problems (communicable diseases, malnutrition, and population growth) of poor, warm climate countries.