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Peer education has long been seen as a key health promotion strategy and an important tool in preventing HIV infection. In South African schools, it is currently one of the strategies employed to do so. Based on both a recent research study of peer education across 35 schools and drawing on multiple previous studies in South Africa, this paper examines the key elements of peer education that contribute to its effectiveness and asks how this aligns with current educational and health...
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This paper considers ways to theorise aspirations in terms of capabilities and agency to function as human beings, as well as our resources to act and participate in this world using a South African case of women students’ aspirations. In this analysis higher education should foster women’s freedom as critical agents to make genuine choices about their lives and futures, including being able to engage critically with gender norms. The paper thus explores critical agency, together with...
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This study investigated the prevalence of self-harming practices among South African university students. Respondents were 201 students attending a small university of technology in South Africa (females = 55%; males = 45%). The students completed a survey on their self-harming behaviours by type, frequency, and context of occurrence. The data were used to descriptively profile self-harming behaviours among the students. Secondary analysis considered any group differences by gender. In...
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Although parent’s involvement is growing in popularity all over the world, little systematic research has focused on parents’ expectation for involvement in education of learners with special educational needs (SENs) in inclusive education. Grounded in the parental involvement literature, and using the Ecological and Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler model (1995) as theoretical and conceptual frameworks, this study investigate why there were considerable variations in parents’ expectations for...
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Energy management is one of the current policy directions of the Ghana government given the increasing challenges associated with energy generation to cope with the growing demand. A conscious attempt at adopting practices aimed at conserving energy is considered a sinequanonto coping with the current energy challenges in Ghana. However, an assessment of the awareness level of energy management practices is yet to be rigorously pursued as an agenda towards energy conservation in institutions...
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The association between substance abuse and school-based violence was examined in a non-clinical sample of 752 South African school-going adolescents. Substance abuse was examined in relation to alcohol abuse and the use of illicit substances in the past 12 months, with four types of school-based violence being considered: physical assault, sexual assault, verbal abuse and property crime. With respect to the perpetration of school violence by males, both alcohol abuse and illicit substance...
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The aim of this article, can be summarised as the exploration of the Zimbabwean socio-economic dynamics as key drivers to the socio-pathological behaviour of drug abuse by youths. It unpacks the current Zimbabwean socio-economic landscape that have influenced the greater uptake of drugs and substances amongst adolescents. Zimbabwe’s per capita income in 2013 was a US$953 compared to US$981 in 1980 (Musewe, 2016: np). Life expectancy was 59-years of age in 1980 and was last measured at...
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This was a descriptive survey study design which sought to establish the school based factors that affect the learning of Kenyan Sign Language in primary schools for learners with hearing impairment in Embu and Isiolo counties in Kenya. The target population was all teachers teaching in primary schools for learners with hearing impairment in the two counties. From the selected schools, the study purposively and randomly sampled 2 head teachers and 8 teachers respectively. Interview guides...
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Adolescents have disproportionate rates of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections when compared with all other age groups. Mothers are gatekeepers and providers of reproductive health education, which can prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Reproductive health education provided by African immigrant mothers is influenced by cultural experiences and cultural contexts that are not well understood and have not been studied. This study sought to...
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This study identified gender differences in knowledge of climate change among livestock farmers in Nsukka agricultural zone, Enugu State.Data were collected using a multistage sampling technique to select 80 livestock farmers.Percentage, mean statistics and standard deviation were used in the presentation of the results.Hypothesis for the study was analysed using t-test.The results showed that the mean age of respondents was 49 years and 31.2 percent of farmers had secondary school...
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Empirical studies reveal that Nigeria has a vast amount of forest resource base whose diversity reflects the country’s large land area of 923,765 km2. Its diverse tropical ecological environment comprise coastal mangrove and rain forest in the South, and Guinea Sudan and Sahel Savanna to the North. But, various estimates confirm the very high rate of deforestation in the country as a result of primarily persistent high and ever-increasing rate of demand from wood and wood products from both...