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At the international, national and local level, authorities seek to prevent citizens from travelling to the Middle East to join fighting parties or settle in the ISIS caliphate (also referred to as IS, ISIS or its Arab language acronym, Daesh). As some travellers have not reached the age of majority, the authorities should take the best interests of the child (Article 3 Convention on the Rights of the Child) into account while addressing this so-called foreign fighter phenomenon. This...

In a sample of 283 African American and Mexican American college students, we investigated the effects of ethnicity and parental education on three dimensions of parental academic socialization (PAS), active involvement, autonomy support, and demanding hard work, and their impact on college adjustment. Controlling for parental education, African Americans reported higher parental active involvement. Academic self-efficacy mediated the effects of both demanding hard work and autonomy support...

In 2014, UNICEF commissioned a review of language policy and education quality in the 21 countries of UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region. This paper examines findings from the review, related to the role of English and local languages in current education practice in the region. National language policies and implementation practices are examined, as is the mismatch between the two. The evident widespread use of English as the language of instruction in primary classrooms of Eastern...

This report summarizes the staff development provided to secondary teachers at four dioceses schools in the North and South Pare of Tanzania in 2014. Included is information supporting the need for a seminar on English conversation and teaching strategies, overview of the ELCT schools educational system, the seminar curriculum including past training experiences, the dioceses project proposal submission, and the staff development interest survey. The report also discusses project goals,...

In response to critiques of the extraverted and mimetic nature of post-colonial education have come various efforts to decolonize Africa's universities. At first blush, the University of Hargeisa’s Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies’ (IPCS) stated commitment to teaching indigenous knowledge appears to follow this trend. In practice, however, IPCS has established itself as an intentionally ‘modern’ Institute valued by staff and students alike for the ‘extraverted’ globally oriented...

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesVolume 53, Issue 6 p. 21053A-21054A Military NIGERIA: Joint Training First published: 18 July 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-825X.2016.07134.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and...

Vaccines are the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions available to avert vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths. Despite global progress in adolescent health, many adolescents in Africa still get sick and die from vaccine-preventable diseases due to lack of vaccination. Adolescents, parents and teachers are key players in the development and implementation of adolescent vaccination policies. Optimal knowledge, attitudes and practices towards adolescent vaccination...

The rapid and continuous change in global community has call for concern by all stakeholders in education industry to rise up to the global advancement so as to make education respond to the needs of students and the society. To realize this, training and development of staff in higher institutions of learning is highly imperative. This research study aims at investigating the effect of training and development programmes on the overall performance of members of academic staff in Lagos State...

The present study investigated the impact of the philosophical chairs strategy on Egyptian EFL students’ speaking skills. Participants were 47 EFL students at Faculty of Education, Suez University. They were divided into a control group and an experimental group. All participants were pretested on speaking skills before the experiment and then posttested after it. For 12 weeks, participants in the control group received their regular instruction while those in the experimental group...

To determine the histopathologic types, frequency of occurrence, age distribution, presenting signs, and symptoms of ovarian tumors in children and adolescents diagnosed at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital all histopathology slides and request cards of ovarian tumors diagnosed in subjects aged, 0 to 19 yr over a 10-yr period (2001-2010) were reviewed. Biographical and clinical data of the patients were collected. The results were entered into Epi-info to determine the frequency of various...

This paper tries to examine if women’s education affects the economic growth. To illustrate this aim, four countries cases have been presented: Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, named MATE . The motive behind choosing them was because these countries have many common religious and cultural norms and values. The statistical analysis of data over the period 1960-2012 shows that the relationship between fertility rate and different measures of education is negative. Averages literacy rate...

À la fois lieu de culte et lieu saint, la synagogue de la Ghriba sur l’île de Djerba en Tunisie est un sanctuaire fréquenté conjointement par des fidèles juifs et musulmans. Ce type de « partage » relève d’un phénomène attesté dans l’ensemble du Maghreb sur la longue durée, mais qui s’est vu considérablement réduit à la suite de l’émigration progressive des juifs sépharades vers l’Europe et Israël à partir du milieu du xxe siècle. À Djerba toutefois, cette mixité interreligieuse a perduré,...

Background:This paper reports on one part of a large study which attempted to identify the linguistic and hierarchical characteristics of van Hiele theory amongst grade 10 learners.Materials and methods:The sample consisted of a total of 359 participants from five conveniently selected schools from Mthatha District in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The performance of these learners on a written geometry test was analysed. On the basis of the analysis, 30 learners were selected to...

Appears in: EDULEARN16 Proceedings Publication year: 2016Pages: 6325-6331ISBN: 978-84-608-8860-4ISSN: 2340-1117doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2016.0359Conference name: 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning TechnologiesDates: 4-6 July, 2016Location: Barcelona, Spain

This paper highlights how critical discourse analysis CDA can be applied to language policy.In particular, it examines language policy in Palestine in light of the framework identified by Chouliaraki & Fairclough (1999).The study investigates the role of English in education policy and the effort made to reform education policy in Gaza as part of Palestine.In addition, this study attempts to analyze the data collected from the a policy document utilized in this study, Critical document...