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This article combines status attainment research with research on values and beliefs to understand educational stratification in Kenya. With household survey data, I examine the impact of family background and structure, division of household labor, and parental perceptions on children's educational participation. Parents' expectations for future financial help from children and perceptions of labor-market discrimination against women are significant determinants of children's enrollment....
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This article combines status attainment research with research on values and beliefs to understand educational stratification in Kenya. With household survey data, I examine the impact of family background and structure, division of household labor, and parental perceptions on children's educational participation. Parents' expectations for future financial help from children and perceptions of labor-market discrimination against women are significant determinants of children's enrollment....
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Africa's progress remains severely constrained by major diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB. Yet recent years have seen renewed momentum in the fight against these diseases. The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) (created in 1997) is one of several initiatives (including WHO's Roll Back Malaria project and Medicines for Malaria Venture) that have helped to galvanize international action to tackle malaria, which kills more than a million people each year. Bringing together...
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ABSTRACT Recent drought in southern Africa has renewed concern about natural and possible man-made climate change. A large majority of the population relies on agriculture at a subsistence level for food, or at a more advanced level to generate income, and therefore are susceptible to inter-annual and intra-seasonal variability in rainfall and climate. Most drought-related studies in South Africa describe its temporal behaviour and the associated anomalies over the country and surrounding...
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Environmental issues are widely discussed in contemporary Egypt. This paper examines how everyday forms of environmentalist action relate to the definition of the problems people give and is based on research carried out between 1995 and 1997 in three localities within greater Cairo and in one village north of the city. The focus is on the
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Abstract This chapter explores the creation of a culturally responsive learning environment for students and faculty. How African American and white students as well as faculty develop a strong identity and healthy interpersonal relationships is translated into teaching practice.
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Abstract This paper discusses the differential distribution of opportunities for professional development of science teachers in post-apartheid South Africa. It is argued that northern/western ideas about teacher change and development are poorly suited to modelling practices and challenges for those who were historically disadvantaged. The environment in which teachers work-physical, social and political-act to select a more limited repertoire of behaviour than those providing in-service...
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A common call is for education in emerging as well as settled democracies to educate young and not so young learners to become responsible, participatory, and reflective citizens. These calls are based on the assumption that education can play a significant role in educating the youth for citizenship. In this manner education can contribute to the building of a united, peaceful, and democratic country. This paper begins by sketching in brief what education for democracy entails with...
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This field report discusses the nature and the strength of collaborations in the provision of family health education, family planning and the prevention and control of the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Swaziland. Based on interviews and surveys conducted with the family health organizations in the country, the report focuses on collaborations between the public, private, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Overall, collaboration between government, private sector and NGOs is...
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This study investigated rural-urban differences in teachers' perceived behaviors among African adolescent boys and girls. On the Perceived Teacher Behavior Inventory administered to 354 boys and 530 girls from four rural and urban high schools in South Africa no significant sex differences were found on the subscales of Generalized Support, Positive Expectations, and Participation. Rural boys and girls scored significantly higher, however, than their urban peers on the Generalized Support and Participation.
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This study investigated rural-urban differences in teachers’ perceived behaviors among African adolescent, boys and girls. On the Perceived Teacher Behavior Inventory administered to 354 boys and 530 girls from four rural and urban high schools in South Africa no significant sex differences were found on the subscales of Generalized Support, Positive Expectations, and Participation. Rural boys and girls scored significantly higher, however, than their urban peers on the Generalized Support and Participation.
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Abstract The last decade has witnessed a pronounced trend in many countries of shifting from university- or college-based models of teacher preparation and professional development to more field-based models. Zimbabwe is on the threshold of a similar movement. Field-based models, however, tend to rely heavily on mentor involvement. In this article the authors examine the specific situation of Zimbabwe in this regard and generate research questions on mentoring that arise naturally from a...
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Abstract The last decade has witnessed a pronounced trend in many countries of shifting from university- or college-based models of teacher preparation and professional development to more field-based models. Zimbabwe is on the threshold of a similar movement. Field-based models, however, tend to rely heavily on mentor involvement. In this article the authors examine the specific situation of Zimbabwe in this regard and generate research questions on mentoring that arise naturally from a...