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Abstract This article reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of introducing African music and culture to Australian non-specialist primary teacher education students at Deakin University in Melbourne (Australia). The study demonstrates that African music enhanced the generic musical experiences, learning, motivation, interest, confidence and competence of students in their fourth year of teacher education. The research also addressed the significance and contribution of African...

In the present quantitative and qualitative study, school psychologists provided responses to a paper-and-pencil survey about their perceptions of the disproportionate representation of African American students in special education. They described their perceptions of the causes and solutions for overrepresentation by providing ratings on structured items as well as responding to open-ended questions. Respondents' previous training in multicultural issues was assessed using an original...

The authors investigated adjustment to an Israeli university by students from two minority groups, Israeli Arabs and Jewish Ethiopians, as a function of their different acculturation attitudes (J. W. Berry, 1990). Social adjustment of both Arabs and Ethiopians was contingent on acculturation attitudes supporting participation with the majority. Psychological adjustment of both groups was negatively associated with personal acculturation preferences that deviated from the shared acculturation...

4D Technologies: appropriating handheld computers to serve the needs of teachers and learners in rural African settings Conference Item How to cite: Leach, Jennifer; Power, Tom; Thomas, Rhodri; Fadani, Xolisa and Mbebe, Andile (2005). 4D Technologies: appropriating handheld computers to serve the needs of teachers and learners in rural African settings. In: mLearn 2005, 25-28th October 2005, Cape Town, South Africa.

The rapid and massive scale-up of antiretroviral drug therapy (ART) so needed in sub-Saharan Africa will not be possible using a 'medicalised' model. A more simple approach is required. DOTS has been used now for many years to provide successful anti-tuberculosis treatment to millions of patients in poor countries of the world, and many of the established concepts can be used for the delivery of ART. Malawi, a small and impoverished country in sub-Saharan Africa, is embarking on a national...

Recent studies suggest that the generally observed negative sibsize-education association is much less consistent in developing nations, partly because of different cultural customs reflected in family organization. Using data from a national survey in the early 1990s and from the 1996 census, the present study assesses the effect of number of siblings on education in South Africa. In a multi-level framework, I link family arrangements to the sibship size effect on education for two major...

This process evaluation study was designed to investigate clinicians' perception of a training programme on syndromic management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their experiences in applying the skills learnt during the course. Out of 136 eligible course participants from Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions, Tanzania, 47 were invited to take part in the study and 40 agreed to participate (85%). The research instruments consisted of a structured interview including open- and...

Abstract This article presents a historical approach to the multi-faith Religious Education introduced at the junior secondary level in Botswana in 1996. The article begins by examining the Christian confessional approach introduced during the missionary era and notes that despite various forms of earlier government opposition the Christian syllabus became popular again in the 1970s. In 1993, a movement toward a multi-faith syllabus gained momentum. Some of the background to this is given...

This study investigated the cross-cultural construct validity of perfectionism using the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R; R. B. Slaney, M. Mobley, J. Trippi, J. S. Ashby, & D. G. Johnson, 1996) with 251 African American college students. A LISREL confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) offered support for the 3 subscales of the APS-R: High Standards, Order, and Discrepancy. Multigroup CFA results for a sample of 314 White college students supported factorial equivalence across the 2 cultural...

This Credit equivalent of US $6 million was intended to develop, through the Education and Training Consolidation and Modernization project (ETCMP ) - 1999-2003 - a technically and financially sustainable education and training system to ensure an educated and flexible work force capable of responding to the country's social and economic goals. The project was a follow-up to the previous IDA-funded Basic Education and Training project.

African American students are disciplined at rates that are disproportionately higher than Black students’ statistical representation in public schools. Coined as the discipline gap, racial and ethnic disparities are present in virtually every major school system across the United States. Because African American students seldom share the cultural frameworks of their teachers, the overrepresentation of Black students on measures of school discipline may, in part, be a function of cultural...

We developed and provided initial empirical validation of the Collectivistic Coping Styles Measure (CCSM), a 9-item scale that assessed the degree to which African,Asian, and Latin American international students utilized social support seeking and forbearance to cope with their problems or concerns. We found evidence of good construct and concurrent validity and good internal consistency and test-retest reliability for the CCSM. Implications of the findings for mental health counseling are discussed.

Zambia is a highly indebted poor developing country with a Gross Domestic Product of just around US$330 according to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Because of lack of locally done evidence-based research on Road Traffic injury prevention and mitigation, Zambia employs strategies modeled on research and experience from the north or western world in preventing and mitigating Road Traffic injuries. These interventions do not often fit the indigenous situation as they tend to...

Societal barriers to the successful education of Black children were identified by the noted historian Carter G. Woodson more than 70 years ago in his classic text The Mis-Education of the Negro. Woodson argued that there were serious problems with inaccurate, ill-planned, depoliticized curriculum content and lack of resources, as well as problems with the poor, unethical preparation of teachers. Historically, Black educational leaders had to overcome these barriers as well as others to be...

IDS BulletinVolume 36, Issue 4 p. 87-102 Case Study 5: Kenya Seed Fairs as a Drought Recovery Strategy in Kenya Victor A. Orindi, Victor A. OrindiSearch for more papers by this authorAndrew Ochieng, Andrew Ochieng The authors wish to thank Dr Paul Omanga of CRS/Kenya and Mr Eric Kisiangani of ITDG-EA who provided their time and shared their knowledge and perspectives on seed fairs in Kenya. We would also like to thank Saleemul Huq, Farhana Yamin and Siri Eriksen for useful comments on...

Reconnaissance of the post-oil-spill, fire-scourged site at Ugbomro, in the Niger Delta, was contingent upon the loud public outcry and galvanizing hue that ensued the widespread conflagration. Sampling was carried out by the grid technique, and fire-scourged soils and their unaffected controls were analyzed. Contrary to the ‘celebrated’ opinion of some that the fires improvised bush fallowing for cropping, the site had witnessed severe impoverishment as evidenced by the hitherto neglected...