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A teacher of Black American literature may be overwhelmed by the amount of material that should be covered. Black American literature has origins in African, European, American Indian, and Black American features. Students should be able to read works of Black American literature that show how other people feel. A complete course can give students the opportunity to gain a knowledge of Black culture and the roots of the Black American, instilling a sense of pride in Black students. As White...
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(1991). THE ROLE OF SPECIALISED EDUCATION IN A UNITARY SYSTEM OF EDUCATION and CHALLENGES FOR SPECIALISED EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNITY. Southern African Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 75-76.
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The dissertation studies the Vezo, fishing people who live on the western coast of Madagascar. It examines Vezo identity and Vezo notions of persorthood. These are shown to be construed around two apparently incompatible principles: the flexible principle of learning and the rigid principle of descent. The first part of the dissertation discusses the fact that Vezoness is learnt, acquired and lost, and that people are rendered Vezo through learning and knowing Vezo knowledge. Ch.l...
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In order to develop health education programs which are adapted to specific sociocultural contexts, in-depth, qualitative data are necessary for program planning. For this purpose, informal data collection techniques are often more appropriate than conventional, formal research methods. In addition to the type of data collection used as a basis for program planning, three other aspects of the program planning process contribute to the quality of programs developed: who is involved in...
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Seven hundred and twenty school children of primary school grades 5 and 6 in Hadba Sargia area in Tripoli were examined for dental caries. The mean DMFT index for the whole sample of children was 1.58. The DT component comprised 1.34 and MT component 0.21 of DMFT score, which made 42.22% and 13.33% of total children sample, respectively. The amount FT component was 0.03 (1.39%) of all children with DMFT examined. The number of children with at least one DMFT score was 410 (56.94%) of the...
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(1991). Economic Decline and the Education System: the case of Sierra Leone. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 127-143.
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The purpose of this study was to identify psychosocial variables predictive of adjustment to disability in African Americans. Psychosocial variables were social support, self-esteem, health locus of control, and perception of disability severity. Demographic variables were also included as predictor variables. Data were obtained from 170 African Americans who were disabled. The results of a stepwise multiple regression procedure indicated that three of the psychosocial variables, perception...
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Research Article| June 01, 1991 Nd and Sr isotope systematics of Shombole volcano, East Africa, and the links between nephelinites, phonolites, and carbonatites Keith Bell; Keith Bell 1Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Tony Peterson Tony Peterson 2Geological Survey of Canada, 588 Booth Street, Ottawa K1A 0E4, Canada Search for other works by this author on:...
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Three hundred pupils in Ibadan were used for the study, 150 of them from Abadina Primary School located within the University of Ibadan, to represent urban areas and the other 150 pupils from Ebenezer Primary School, Akingbile, a village 10 km from Ibadan City, to represent the rural area. The school meals served in these areas were chemically analysed; the average total energy (of the school meal) contributions to the actual intakes for the rural and urban areas were about 16·3% and 15·2%,...
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Abstract. It is generally expected that students in higher education are able to write adequately for a wide variety of purposes and audiences. This assumption remains largely untested because current approaches to assessing writing abilities are typically impressionistic ratings of the overall quality of the text. This article puts forward the argument that a shift from impressionistic measures of assessment to criterion‐referenced measures provides a more detailed profile of the writing...