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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.
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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.
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Many early interventionists in clinical practice still do not appear to be wholeheartedly committed to participating in the prevention of communication disorders and the promotion of optimal development, which have been identified as primary roles for all professionals (ASHA, 1991). Owing to the prevalence of risk factors such as HIV/AIDS and poverty, infants and young children in developing countries such as South Africa are at an even higher risk for developing communication disorders,...
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In August 2006 eight members of the Rwandan Parliament introduced a wide-ranging bill to combat gender-based violence (GBV). Because Rwanda leads the world in womens political representation-48.8 percent of its lower house of Parliament is female-it is perhaps unsurprising that criminalizing GBV is a legislative priority. What is remarkable however is the extent to which women and men worked together on this issue; the bill known as Draft Law on the Prevention Protection and Punishment of...
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This paper examines the contextual situation of students of color within the public education system and identifies effective strategies for teaching for social justice in a diverse secondary foreign language classroom. An investigation into the history of the educational experiences for African American and Mexican American students reveals educational racism and deculturalization for these students. In addition, historical background on educational movements for social change foreshadows...
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Incorporating the teaching and assessment of professionalism in an undergraduate medical curriculum is a challenging process. There are two components that require attention: the cognitive and the experiential. This article outlines how the School of Medicine at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa is addressing the teaching and assessment of professionalism.To embed teaching and assessment of professionalism in a revised six-year undergraduate medical curriculum.This is a...
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Abstract Research on the history of civic education in United States has rarely reflected the perspectives of African American teachers and students. Through analysis of archival data, I document how African American educators in one Southern state reported teaching civic values to students in a racially segregated society before the modern Civil Rights era. These efforts occurred in spite of the inherent contradiction of teaching citizenship beliefs and practices in a society that denied...
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Operating room nurses form the corner-stone of the operating room because perioperative care of the patient rests mainly in the hands of the nursing personnel. Unique challenges face nurses functioning in the stressful surgical environment where anticipation to prevent or cope with life-threatening situations is the order of the day. The operating room nurse must be knowledgeable, skilled and alert, as he/she is held accountable for all acts of commission and omission. To ensure that nurses...
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This Community Advocates training manual contains a curriculum developed by the Population Council, Nigeria, under the HIV Prevention Project for Vulnerable Youth in Northern Nigeria funded by USAID/Nigeria. The curriculum was developed as a tool for training community advocates in conducting advocacy activities on the issues of early marriage, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive health. The curriculum aims to improve knowledge and strengthen the skills of community representatives from the northern...
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In both South Africa and the United States South, education stands and has stood historically as a vital cultural and economic center for its people. In both cases school integration has proved to be profoundly contentious. Certainly much of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. was centered on integrating schools from the elementary school playground to the university campus. An interesting and important parallel between South Africa’s segregationists and those in America also emerged in...
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The article sprung from my doctoral research with the English department of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.