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This paper surveys the consequences of pupils' participation in the extra-curricular environmental education (EE) programme Club P.A.N. (Peoples, Animals and Nature) by monitoring changes in their respective knowledge as well as in their environmental attitudes. The programme was conducted in Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa with the help of the local teacher's organization Cellule des Projets Environnementaux (CPE). We used multivariate analysis of data collected during two years of the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the associations of gender, ethnicity, urban‐rural residence, and poverty, on children's unpaid work. It examines whether the Nigerian experience parallels previous research in India and Latin America, which finds an ethnic gap in children's unpaid work. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the stated objectives, the 2004 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey EdData Survey (2004 NDES) were analyzed. Findings The series of logistic...

The present study examines the effects of organizational cynicism on two dimensions of job attitudes (organizational commitment and job satisfaction).Over the years, much work has been done by researchers who focused on organizational commitment and job satisfaction.Drawing on the literature review, there are some studies regarding organizational cynicism.In Egypt, limited research has been conducted, but the present study attempts to find out whether there is a relationship between...

Total enterprise and the marketization of schooling as implied and currently practiced hold no good for the poor African child. The poor African needs to be protected from the consequences and excesses of the free market. The paper concludes that learning organization is a pseudonym for marketization and intellectual pauperization.

The study sought to describe the quality-of-life impairments in newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS-infected adult patients with cutaneous lesions. This was a hospital-based, cross-sectional, descriptive study of 160 newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS-infected adult patients attending the HIV/AIDS clinic of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH). Systemic random sampling technique was used in recruiting respondents for the study. The Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) was used to gauge the...

The study was conducted to assess management practices and perceived training needs of small ruminant farmers in Anambra State, Nigeria. Interview schedule was used to collect data from sixty randomly selected farmers. Data was presented using descriptive statistics. Majority (68.3%) of the respondents were males. Fifty-five percent of the farmers kept goats only. Majority (96.7%) kept their animals under the intensive system of management. About 63% of the respondents kept their livestock...

This paper undertakes an assessment of the extent of professional support that the teachers of History and Government subject are accorded by the schools’ management. The study investigated the challenges of teaching History and Government in Kenyan secondary schools as experienced by teachers in Wareng District, located in the North Rift region of Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Simple and stratified random sampling techniques were used to select a sample of 120...

Using the Yoruba race of Nigeria as fulcrum for the study, this paper examines the universality and didactic significance of archetypes in African folklore. The authors contend that Africa folklore, by virtue of its highly moralizing and didactic elements made possible by an embedded commonality of instructive archetypes, offers a lifeline that counsellors andpsychologists can use in combating the moral decay in the Nigerian society. Based on this premise the paper goes on to present a...

A study was conducted to assess the microbial safety of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods sold in private and public primary schools in Abeokuta, South-western Nigeria. One hundred and sixty RTE food samples were collected from forty food vendors in thirty primary schools and analysed microbiologically. Socio-economic status and their knowledge of food safety were assessed using the structured questionnaires. Total bacterial counts, total coliform counts and total fungal counts of RTE foods in public...

This paper examined the existing management strategies for funding Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Nigeria with a view towards its better funding and sustenance. It recognised the commitment of the Nigerian Governments and the support of the community, individuals and foreign sponsors in funding ECE programmes. It argued that, nevertheless, much more needs to bedone towards providing adequate funds for quality teachers/ caregivers, supply of appropriate facilities and stimulating learning...

Despite global under-five deaths declining from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 20111 there continues to be significant progress to be made. The myriad problems of providing healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa are well documented and, among others, include a lack of postqualification specialist training which may influence the choice of physicians to work in large urban hospitals or to leave a country altogether.2 ,3 Postgraduate training builds the capacity of local physicians and...

Despite global under-five deaths declining from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 20111 there continues to be significant progress to be made. The myriad problems of providing healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa are well documented and, among others, include a lack of postqualification specialist training which may influence the choice of physicians to work in large urban hospitals or to leave a country altogether.2 ,3 Postgraduate training builds the capacity of local physicians and...

This contribution explores the significance but also the immense complexities of Christian discourse on confessing guilt within the context of climate change. It draws especially on South African discourse on confessing guilt in the context of apartheid. The argument of the essay is twofold: Christians with an enduring large carbon footprint may wish to confess their guilt in this regard, but typically find it difficult to live from God's liberating forgiveness and are therefore prone to...

This contribution explores the significance but also the immense complexities of Christian discourse on confessing guilt within the context of climate change. It draws especially on South African discourse on confessing guilt in the context of apartheid. The argument of the essay is twofold: Christians with an enduring large carbon footprint may wish to confess their guilt in this regard, but typically find it difficult to live from God's liberating forgiveness and are therefore prone to...

This survey is based on data which I collected through colleagues at various theological institutions in the Southern African region.1 These institutions count amongst the most prominent theological institutions in the region. The data therefore provides a fairly reliable picture of how Systematic Theology is being taught at an undergraduate level at universities in the region.