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Since the 1990s, education system in Kenya has faced dynamic and rapid changes that have had overwhelming effects both on the child, teacher, school and society at large. Education policies have changed over the years including the recently introduced policy on caning which was scraped through children’s Act of 2001 and replaced with guiding and counseling as a measure to prepare a child for the challenges they face both in school and outside school. As corporal punishment remains banned and...
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This study is an evaluation of how to improve organisational performance by transforming an organisation into a learning one in particular the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL). A qualitative method was used where an exploratory study was conducted through the use of a survey and interviews with selected participants. This was done in order to establish their feelings and perceptions concerning a need for change in our organisations, especially by managers or leaders. In...
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This thesis is an account of a qualitative study, which set out to investigate how black multilingual children in their first year of formal schooling are socialised into the cultural practices, particularly the English language practices, and ethos at a former white English medium school in South Africa. This study is interdisciplinary drawing on social theories and poststructuralist epistemology to explore the relationship between ideology, language/knowledge practices and identity. In...
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This study determined the nature, extent and causes of child sexual abuse cases and how Zimbabwean female primary school heads handle such cases in their schools. Seven female primary school heads from the southern province were interviewed. data were analysed using the interpretive/qualitative case study methodology. Findings of the study showed that the following forms of child abuse were prevalent among primary school pupils: sexual abuse of girls; physical assault and punishments; denial...
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Environmental sustainability is one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for sustainable development. Since 1993, Tanzania experienced hydrological drought in Mtera reservoir, which impacted sustainability of socio-economic development and livelihoods of the people. The causes and process of the hydrological drought occurrence for energy generation are contested among the stakeholders. This paper analyses causes, process and impact of hydrological drought and links them using...
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Climate Change and the global economic crisis are negatively impacting on the resilience of agriculture and rural development in countries such as Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. Livestock Water Productivity (LWP) is becoming a major area of research which aims at increasing agricultural productivity through the use of less water for both livestock and crops as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to Climate Change. Via BMZ funded research, IWMI and ILRI are attempting to understand the gender...
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In Cameroun, around 18 percent of children aged between 10-14 years old grow up within a sibship extended to host one (or more) foster-child. This proportion is similar in other African countries and in particular West African ones. This paper aims at estimating the effect of foster-children supply on biological children education demand of host parents in Cameroon. To address the endogeneity of foster-children supply, we estimate both decision within a recursive bivariate probit framework...
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The third issue of the SAJHE for 2009 deals with the challenges facing career counselling at South African institutions of higher education in the 21st century. The interested reader will encounter an absorbing compilation of national, international, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions. Individually, these contributions represent the fruits of months, if not years, of dedication and application in different research contexts. Collectively, they provide an imposing collage...