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The increasing number of international students in U.S. colleges and universities has led to increased research on counseling international students. Despite this increased interest in the counseling needs of international students, very little has been written about one group of international students, those from Africa. This article identifies counseling needs of African college students and discusses suggestions for helping American counselors work effectively with African college students.

Abstract Adolescents with blood pressures in the upper range of normal are at increased risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD); African American youth are at highest risk. Cardiovascular fitness training programs in schools might reduce the incidence of CVD. Project Heart is an experiment to evaluate the efficacy of school-based aerobic exercise in lowering blood pressure in a high-risk, urban, and largely African-American sample of adolescent girls. This article describes...

A positive contribution of formal education to development has become widely accepted and rarely questioned. Schooling has been generally assumed as a producer of creativity and therefore a causal factor for economic and social change. Employers have regarded schooling as providing skills, preparing youth for economic functions in an increasing complex technological society, including socializing them to fit into new models of economic organisations, thus helping them into higher incomes and...

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentVolume 23, Issue 2 p. 66-72 Great African-American Teachers and Mentors of My Development Frederick D. Harper, Frederick D. Harper EditorSearch for more papers by this author Frederick D. Harper, Frederick D. Harper EditorSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1995 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-1912.1995.tb00600.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare...

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Among 241 college students, both white and African-American adults were less willing to be personal friends with people of the other ethnic group than with people of their own ethnic group. African-American students were also less willing to be friends with Asian Americans than were white students.

Early childhood educare programmes can aid development through their impact on young children, their mothers and the community. The stages of development of the Hlanganani Crèche Teachers’ Organisation are outlined. The lessons for development and the effectiveness of the organisation in addressing educare issues are examined. An organisation for educare workers can be effective in dealing with problems facing educare workers if it is approached with the aim of developing and empowering its members.

ABSTRACT Interest in the effectiveness of test coaching has prompted many studies, almost all of which have been directed toward coaching's effect on results of the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). The focus of this research was to investigate whether preparation for the American College Test (ACT) provided by professional coaches would raise the scores of African-American students. Subjects were 19 African-American high school students working as summer law interns (a special summer...

This paper investigates the challenges that Uganda and England have faced in beginning to reestablish community participation in the governance of education. It investigates starting points for the possible development of school-governance systems in both countries. Outlined first are the formats for community involvement that have been adopted ip each country. The traditions and current philosophies that support active community involvement in each country are then examined. The paper...

We report source parameters for eight earthquakes in East Africa obtained using a number of techniques, including (1) inversion of long-period P and SH waves for moment tensors and source-time functions, (2) forward modelling of first-motion polarities and P and pP amplitudes on short-period seismograms, and (3) determination of pP-P and sP-P differential traveltimes from short-period records. The foci of these earthquakes lie between depths of 24 and 34 km in Archean and Proterozoic...

Surveys the evolution of education in Africa, from pre‐colonial times through the periods of contact with Islam, Christianity, colonialism, and the reforms of the post‐colonial period. In the past, the teacher (or any knowledgeable person who played the teaching role) was respected in African societies. Societal transformations (increased educational opportunities, the multiple job options available to school‐leavers, erosion in the earning power of teachers, and a watered‐down teacher...

Grounded in affect theory (Eckblad, 1981), this study investigated (1) the extent that Botswana junior secondary teachers' quality of worklife was related to their willingness to undertake innovative educational practices and (2) the extent that those teachers who differed in their perceived quality of worklife also differed in their classroom pedagogical practices. Results indicated that classroom practices differed significantly (for reasons other than subject area) among teachers who held...

The impact of a curriculum implementation in English in the Botswana community junior secondary school system was examined using an ethnographic case study approach. The paper outlines some of the findings of this study and concludes from the extensive observations in these schools that there has been little or no change in the nature of the teaching-learning situation in these classrooms from that documented in earlier studies. Three areas are highlighted which appear to play a central role...

Flipped pedagogy in chemistry education is well known in recent years by the successful implementation of active learning environments and the increasing number of flip course reports. The digital learning contents with advanced technology used in the flipped approach helps instructors to increase the amount of time to include more active learning activities. The academic achievements of students promoted more research-based flipped pedagogical studies worldwide. This review aims to...

Eighty parents and teachers were interviewed in Nigeria to identify attitudes toward inequities in access to education that may be related to high population growth and weak economic growth. Children from poor families and Muslim girls are underenrolled in Nigeria. The interviewees acknowledged the continuing underenrollment but did not think it was due to a lack of personal initiative or was in any way appropriate for these groups. They described the value of education for these children...

In this article, Arlette Willis articulates the literacy schooling experiences of her son, Jake, as he engages in a struggle to affirm himself as both a literacy learner and an African American. Asserting that Jake's struggle has historical roots and present-day consequences for the education of culturally and linguistically diverse school children, Willis argues for a reconceptualization of literacy that builds on these children's backgrounds and knowledges. In the last section of the...

A multiracial/multiethnic sample of middle school adolescents and their teachers was used to assess whether teacher ratings of student behavior problems varied according to teacher-student racial/ethnic differences and students' perception of teachers' attitudes toward them. No significant mean score differences were found for Hispanic or non-Hispanic white students according to the race/ethnicity of the teachers doing the ratings. However, African American students rated by Hispanic and...