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Conceptualizing a Holistic Approach to TVET Planning and Programming in Sub-Saharan Africa This UNEVOC Discussion Paper conceptualizes a holistic approach to TVET programming and planning in selected post-conflict countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a review of relevant literature and elaborates the principal theoretical and practical issues shaping the current delivery of TVET in these countries. The second half of the paper introduces literature-based case studies of education and...

The aim of this thesis is to study and analyse how the manifestation of the British colonial era is presented and interpreted in Gambian secondary school history teaching. The sources used in this ...

Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as a means of removing their children from public schools they deemed unacceptable. The book works to discern the overlaps and tensions between the educational visions of African American voucher families...

Aim Observe the influence on the asthma guinea pig lung function and the organism under electron microscope,inquiry into the mechanism that it cures asthma.Method 120 miscellaneous color guinea pigs(sixty male guinea pigs and sixty female guinea pigs) was divided into 6 groups randomly and separately.Give after using the egg albumin to induct the guinea pig asthma successfully YANG HE asthma grain,hexadecadrol,the GUI LONG asthma capsule to carry on a treatment,observing the varity of lung...

Purpose. To report on the development of a program to treat and rehabilitate children with chronic orthopaedic disabilities in the sub-Saharan African context incorporating orthopaedic reconstructive surgery within community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programs.Method. Practice of rehabilitation descriptive report.Results. In a six-year period between 1996 and 2002, a comprehensive project addressing the rehabilitative and orthopaedic surgery needs of children with motor impairments was...

The remote sensing data (optical and radar) was used with the purpose of identify the structural lineaments that crosscut the geological formations that composed the bedrock of the south part of Santiago island (Cape Verde). Besides tectonics, this study also provided new insights to the understanding of the hydrogeological system of the volcanic island.

Abstract Most African countries got their flag independence in the 1960s. Soon thereafter, one after the other, the new states began falling into the hands of new military strongmen. Those lucky fell under one-party dictatorships. Democracy and rule of law became alien to the continent. Using the case study of East Africa, this paper asks what should be done to improve the situation in the continent. Many in the continent thought that the introduction of a multiparty political system in the...

Asbestos minerals (Amosite, Crocidolite, Chrysotile, Tremolite, Anthophylite) were mined extensively in South Africa for more than ninety years. The mines were later closed because of the negative health and environmental impacts, thereafter commissioning the mine rehabilitation process in 1986. Since then, there has not been an effectively coordinated monitoring procedure to assess the progress of mine rehabilitation in mitigating asbestos pollution. Field evidence shows that traces of...

IntroductionIn South Africa about 1500 people become HIV infected every day. More than half of these new infections occur in young people. HIV/AIDS programmes have been implemented to combat the disease, but yet the incidences are still on the increase.AimThe aim of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of high school learners about HIV/AIDS in the Paarl and Wellington area.MethodologyThis study made use of a quantitative study design, by means of a...

This study investigated the school functioning of individuals with childhood sexual experiences in South Africa. The nature of the study was qualitative, and employed two data collection strategies: in-depth individual interviews with 22 survivors of child sexual abuse and focus interviews with two groups of teachers. The study revealed that participants' emotional reaction to the abuse affected three broad areas of school functioning: concentration, interest in school-related activities and...

Presented at a Research seminar in Accra,Ghana,from 22 to 24 march 2007 on the theme ?The Contribution of Higher education to National Education Systems: Current Challenges for Africa?.,The major thrust of technical and vocational education (TVE) worldwide is to address issues of youth unemployment, poverty and international competitiveness in skills development towards current and projected opportunities and challenges (McGrath, 2005). Such issues are crucial to Africa?s dignity and...

Over the past 20 years, as the private security industry in South Africa grew at a rapid rate, there have been ongoing concerns raised at the generally low levels of professionalisation and specialisation within the broader private security sector. Furthermore, with the provision of various training courses - often of short duration and suspect quality - by unregulated or non-accredited training centres, many of the fly-by-night variety or using unqualified trainers, there have been...

People with disabilities face many obstacles in their struggle for equality. Both men and women who are physically or mentally challenged are subject to discrimination, but women with disabilities are further disadvantaged, not only because they are disabled, but because they are 'disabled women'. Initially disability research assumed that gender and social dimensions such as race, class, culture and religion were irrelevant. Similarly, disability studies traditionally followed a...

Teaching and learning in South African schools offers sound, detailed and practical direction to help new and experienced educators and student educators move with ease within the framework of teaching and learning. This title will enable them to understand the management of teaching and learning in schools, apply the relevant roles of the educator to teaching practice; ensure staff development and partnerships with parents and communities.

Teaching and learning in South African schools offers sound, detailed and practical direction to help new and experienced educators and student educators move with ease within the framework of teaching and learning. This title will enable them to understand the management of teaching and learning in schools, apply the relevant roles of the educator to teaching practice; ensure staff development and partnerships with parents and communities.