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This study used descriptive survey to identify the problems with communication modes used in the education of children with hearing impairment in Ghana. Four schools for the deaf were purposively selected for the study. The participants consisted of four (4) head teachers, 48 teachers of the deaf, and 120 hearing impaired students. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. Questionnaire was used for data collection. The findings indicated that teachers and head teachers...
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AbstractSub-Saharan Africa has been hit hard by the global recession, but signs of resilience remain. While South Africa and some other middle-income countries were caught in the turbulence of international financial markets, and oil exporters saw government revenues plunge, some countries with wider commodity bases have so far escaped the worst of the crisis. Also, and reassuringly, with stronger initial fiscal and external positions than in past downturns, most countries in the region have...
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What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition.
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Spurred on by the development of ICT technologies, learning and teaching practices are changing in Africa as well as in the rest of the world. This change is particularly evident in distance learni ...
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In Xala (1975) of Sembene Ousmane, Wend Kuuni (1982) of Gaston Kaboré, Gombele (1994) of Falaba Issa Traore, Keita (1995) of Dan Koyate, La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (1998) of Djibril Diop Mambeti, and Khorma (la bêtise) (2002) of Saadi Jilaani., we analyze the multiple meanings of “sexual impotence,” “albinism,” “blindness,” “deafness,” and “mobility disabilities.” We analyze how context, stigmatization, and impact on the story invite a reflection. Disability is understood as loss but also...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of instrumental music instruction on the career plans of disadvantaged South African secondary school students. The study was part of the South African Music Outreach Project, a project that over the past two years has established concert bands (instrumental ensembles) at public schools in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The findings revealed that students' participation in instrumental music instruction had a positive effect on their...
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Becker and Lewis (1973) have theorized the existence of a trade-off between quality and quantity of offspring, founding their study on the hypothesis of marginal costs of education which rise as the number of children increases. However, in poor countries and in the presence of credit constraints, the Becker-Lewis tradeoff could be overcome if parents decided to have their oldest children work, and the younger ones pursue an education. Using a database on the activities of children in...