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The Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the Ohio State University has been expanding the senior capstone design experience to begin at the junior year and to include opportunities for international design projects. In June 2006, the department sent a group including undergraduates, a graduate student, staff, and faculty to South Africa in cooperation with the University of KwaZulu- Natal, the University of Cape Town, and several municipalities in South Africa. The...
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History denotes a small number of African-Americans have held leadership roles in educational public and private school systems across the country. However, during the last decade black women have pioneered and forged new frontiers as educational as leaders within urban schools. Because of these contributions, more should be known regarding the visions that motivate such women, specifically as it relates to urban leadership and teaching. This phenomenological study examines the visions of...
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This exploratory-descriptive research focuses on whether children can connect school-based experiences to future jobs that interest them. A cross-national sample of 497 South African and 365 Australian upper primary school children participated in the study. The data from one item of the Revised Career Awareness Survey were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Differences between nation and gender were examined. The results revealed that the majority of children were able...
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With SACMEQ and PASEC there are now two large data bases available on student achievement, socio-economic background and school and teacher characteristics in both anglophone and francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. A joint analysis of PASEC and SACMEQ in a common education production function framework allows us to estimate the impact of educational inputs on student achievement in 22 sub-Saharan African countries, and to compare our results with those of earlier empirical studies for education...
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With SACMEQ and PASEC there are now two large data bases available on student achievement, socio-economic background and school and teacher characteristics in both anglophone and francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. A joint analysis of PASEC and SACMEQ in a common education production function framework allows us to estimate the impact of educational inputs on student achievement in 22 sub-Saharan African countries, and to compare our results with those of earlier empirical studies for education...
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With SACMEQ and PASEC there are now two large data bases available on student achievement, socio-economic background and school and teacher characteristics in both anglophone and francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. A joint analysis of PASEC and SACMEQ in a common education production function framework allows us to estimate the impact of educational inputs on student achievement in 22 sub-Saharan African countries, and to compare our results with those of earlier empirical studies for education...
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Schooling has externality effects in agriculture when, in the course of conducting their own private economic activities, educated farmers raise the productivity of their uneducated neighbours. This paper seeks to determine the potential size and source of such benefits for rural areas of Ethiopia, where school enrolment is low and the private returns to education may not be apparent. Average and stochastic frontier production functions are estimated, including household and community...
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The challenge facing a country from the so-called south, such as South Africa, is to secure the highest quality of leadership for the economy in general and for the public service in particular. The question that guides this article is: ‘Are institutions of higher education suitable learning providers for equipping the public service with the best?’ The article investigates issues such as the fundamental purpose of institutions of higher education, the competencies that the management cadre...
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AbstractThe accountancy and auditing profession operates within an environment that is changing at a rapid pace. Professional accountants need to remain relevant in this changing environment that may require them to change or adapt the services they offer to their clients. One of the key drivers of change in the environment is the advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). Accountants in South Africa are educated through four years of formal academic study and three years...
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Evaluation of Uganda Continuing Medical Education (CME). Final report.Wesson, J., & Katz, K. - 2007
In 2005-2006 Family Health International (FHI) worked with the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MOH) to conduct 11 Continuing Medical Education (CME) workshops. The objectives were to update participants in current family planning trends in Uganda (including the decline in intrauterine device (IUD) use) to sensitize participants to the latest changes in the World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) to share experiences from the reintroduction of the IUD in Kenya and to...
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AbstractPrevious research has examined African American student achievement, the mathematics and science education of girls, and schooling children in poverty. Through the lens of positionality theory, this study investigated the intersection of all three topics through an examination of African American sixth grade girls and their experience of mathematics and science primary school instruction using focus group and interview data. The findings suggest that the girls possess an awareness of...
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CULTURALLY RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: AN EXAMINATION OF RACE, PRACTICE, AND SELF THROUGH AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEACHER STUDY GROUP by Charnita V. West This naturalistic investigation examined how the implementation of a teacher study group assisted African-American teachers in instituting culturally relevant pedagogy. Ladson-Billings (1994) coined the term culturally relevant pedagogy to address the need for developing and implementing authentic methods for teaching African-American...