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Context: Senegal is among the most endemic countries for viral hepatitis B with 11% of chronic HBV carriers.Students in the health sector are among those most at risk.The objectives of this study were to determine the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) of students at a private university in Dakar regarding viral hepatitis B and to identify associated factors. Methodology:A cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study has been conducted among students of the St Christopher Iba Mar...

Abstract A “pedagogy of discomfort” (Boler 1999) recognizes the degree to which epistemology, emotions, and ethics are closely entwined both within and beyond our classrooms shaping who, what, where, why, and when we can see. It recognizes not only the intellectual and cognitive focus of education but also its embodied and affective dimensions. A pedagogy of discomfort which engages with the historically, politically, and ideologically contested and the emotionally invested subject of...

The objective of teaching is learning.Teaching cannot be said to be successful without effective learning.The academic achievement got from the higher institutions these days depicts that teaching is going on without much learning.That is why students that graduate with distinction or first class from our institutions of higher learning are few and far between.A student that recently graduated with 5.00 GPA became instant news.But this should be the rule rather than the exception.More...

Value, Adult education, Community.
 Zambian communities are rich with voices of the value of adult education, albeit unsystematically documented. It is these insightful voices that this article unveils. Phenomenological research design was employed. Three research sites were targeted comprising two chiefdoms and covering four villages, two villages from each chief dom. Data was collected using interviews and focus group discussions. After coding the data, narrative and thematic methods...

The paper examines the link between school effectiveness and academic performance among primary schools in Nairobi city, Kenya. Data are from 1120 teachers spread in 89 primary schools. Using multi...

This article, based on theoretical reflections and empirical examples, outlines dilemmas in the social positioning of postgraduate research when students are challenged with their locations as insiders and outsiders in terms of the issues they investigate in Development Studies. Encountering the “other” and oneself in, against and beyond the scholarship-activism binary offers fertile ground for engaged research yet is entangled with configurations of power and regulation in academia. This...

Promoting the transition of smallholder farmers from subsistence to more commercial and market-oriented production is an important goal of the Tanzanian extension system. The Ministry of Agriculture Training Institutes (MATIs) contribute to this goal by providing training to frontline extension workers (FEWs). However, the capacity of the MATI system to produce agricultural extension practitioners with job-ready competencies has declined, leading stakeholders and employers to raise concerns...

Being able to use English in a proficient manner has undoubtedly become an essential asset in Algerian professional and academic settings over the last few years.Recent contingency for a better future for graduate and undergraduate Algerian students has generated willingness to acquire the needful skills to be ready to compete at the national and international market levels.In the case of Legal English, the development of vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills requires...

This research aimed to investigate the second year pre-service visual arts teachers' (PVATs) perceptions of the effectiveness of their methods course in equipping them with the knowledge and skills of teaching during teacher preparation in NTCs in Uganda and how it improved their teaching competence levels. The content for the methods course is aimed at preparing PVATs for school practice. The preparation is done while PVATs are still at college. The study followed a quantitative research...

Analysis of the school performance in external Agriculture examination showed that there were schools that consistently performed well and those constantly performing poorly in Eswatini. Unfortunately, there is no study that has sought to analyze the characteristics of the high performing and low performing schools in agriculture in Eswatini. Thus, the purpose of the study was to analyze the high and low performing schools in Agriculture in Eswatini. A comparative analysis targeting 27...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the cause of absenteeism and suggest a possible solution to the problem of absenteeism on students academic and school performance in selected secondary school in Addis Ababa. The relevant literature was reviewed to secure the methodology and the findings. The study adopted descriptive survey design and a mixed method approach. Combinations of purposive and simple random sampling technique were applied to accommodate the variety of respondents...

Abstract Background Children living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at neuropsychological risk for cognitive and motor dysfunction. However, few prospective, multi-site studies have evaluated neuropsychological outcomes longitudinally among perinatally infected African children who received early antiretroviral treatment (ART). Methods We enrolled 611 children aged 5 to 11 years at 6 sites (South Africa [3], Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda). Of these, there were 246 children living with...

In this dynamic society of today where there are varied experiences, it is not possible to manage everything to its original insignia. Hence, the opportunity for learning by conventional experience is not always possible. It is only possible through the use of proper and self-motivated classroom management techniques. The purpose of this paper is to assess classroom management challenges and its solution in the secondary schools of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The researcher used descriptive...

This study explores the relationships between self-efficacy and observed quality of classroom interactions of EFL teachers in Niger and how they compare to their American counterparts. We collected and analyzed self-efficacy data from 609 EFL teachers using the Teachers’ Sense of Self-efficacy Scale (TSES). In addition, classroom interaction data were collected from 53 Nigerien EFL teachers using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). All the self-efficacy subscales were...

This paper evaluates the impact of the 2015 El Niño-induced drought on household consumption in Ethiopia. A difference-in-difference method was used to compare consumption changes over time in a group unaffected by the drought to the changes in a group affected by the drought. By using the ESS household-level consumption aggregate data, we find that the 2015 drought reduces affected household’s annual consumption by 8%, and the reduction was largely driven by changes in the lower tails of...