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Teachers' work, learning, and professional development are central to any effort aiming at improving schools. Consequently, teachers must consider themselves as a lifelong learner, engage in continuous professional learning and apply that learning to improve student learning and achievement. This article explores teachers' motivation for teaching and professional development in secondary schools in Ethiopia. Data were collected via interviews and focus group discussions from 32 teachers. The...

This research was set out to establish the determinants of organizational commitment among part-time academic staff in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Nairobi and Mombasa cities in Kenya.The specific objectives of the study were to find out whether family responsibilities; job-related factors; organizational factors; and economic factors affect the organizational commitment of part-time academic staff in HEIs in Kenya. Quantitative study design by use of survey was used for the...

The burden of stroke on healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is increasing. However, long-term outcomes from stroke in SSA are not well described. We aimed to investigate case-fatality and health outcomes for stroke survivors at 7- to 10-year follow-up.The Tanzanian Stroke Incidence Project (TSIP) recruited incidence stroke cases between 2003 and 2006. We followed up cases in 2013, recording date of death in those who had died.Of 130 stroke cases included in this study,...

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على مستوى توفر خصائص الريادة لدى طلبة البكالوريوس، تخصص إدارة الأعمال في جامعات جنوب الضفة الغربية، وتأثير مجموعة من المتغيرات الديموغرافية على هذه الخصائص، ومعرفة احتياجات هؤلاء الطلبة للتوجه للعمل الريادي. ولغايات تحقيق هذه الأهداف تبنت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي، واستعانت بالاستبانة كأداة لجمع البيانات الأولية، كما تمت الاستعانة بالكتب والدراسات السابقة لغايات جمع البيانات الثانوية. وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن مستوى توفر خصائص الشخص الريادي عند أفراد العينة جاء بشكل كبير...

This study is based on a pragmatist analysis of selected international accounts on quality assurance in higher education. A pragmatist perspective was used to conceptualise a logical internal quality assurance model to embed and support the alignment of graduate competencies in curriculum and assessment of Ghanaian polytechnics. Through focus group and in-depth interviews, the framework was evaluated by internal stakeholders including lecturers, students and administrators of the...

Adolescents with disabilities in developing countries frequently have limited access to sporting opportunities and comparatively little is known of their lived experiences and preferences. We set out to understand what a group of adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) living in South Africa perceive to be important components of programmes developed to increase their participation in sport. We conducted in-depth interviews with 15 adolescents with CP. Data were analysed using Interpretative...

AbstractMy response to and reflections on Higgins’ book of essays and interviews pursue his defence of the humanities in the ‘managerial’ university while posing a few suggestions of my own on the relationship of utility, the humanities, and academic freedom. The relationship – I argue – invokes sometimes unexpected considerations, at least in present-day South Africa, of the pragmatic and the ideal, and that intermittent reality checks may add further qualification to the argument.Keywords:...

In this paper we focus on how South African students’ ideas about the human body are constituted in their descriptions of three different scenarios involving the pathway of a sandwich, a painkiller and a glass of water through the body. In particular, we have studied the way in which the students transferred ideas between the sandwich and the painkiller compared with the students' ability to explain the water pathway. The study surveyed 161 ninth-grade students in five different schools in...

This qualitative study examined the implementation of a peace curriculum for Kenyan Quaker secondary schools. Fourteen schools were selected for this study 1 year after school leaders attended specific training sessions. On site visits were made to 12 of the 14 schools selected for this study, and interviews conducted with the remaining principals. Schools were ranked on their level of implementation at low, medium, or high. Results indicated that 12 of the 14 schools implemented the...

The development of education and training opportunities for professionals in the archives and records management (ARM) profession in Africa has been the subject of a number of professional discussions in the past. However, a significant number of recent developments and trends have not been captured in these discussions. This article provides a historical outline and some of the major developments of ARM education and training in Africa. In addition, it traces some of the key challenges...

AbstractThe notion of translanguaging has recently attracted attention in bilingual educational contexts worldwide. Noteworthy, however, is a paucity of studies that have assessed its effectiveness as a teachable strategy in complex African multilingual classrooms. This study investigated metacognitive reflections of 15 (n=15) student teachers towards their use of discursive language practices in learning Sepedi as an additional language in a teacher education programme. During classroom...

This study examined personal and contextual variables as predictors of attitudes toward disability at a Kenyan higher education setting. Participants were a convenience sample of 309 undergraduate students at a Kenyan university enrolled in Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, Political Science, and Public Administration majors. Data on attitudes were collected using the Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons scale (ATDP: Antonac & Livneh, 1988). A cross-sectional survey design was employed for...

Radical pedagogical ideals and practices were at the heart of the South African Students Organisation (SASO), the formation that birthed the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) at the height of the internal anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s. This paper sets out to illuminate and examine the educational agenda of SASO and the early BCM by analysing the rich archive of SASO, including the organisation's minutes, reports, policy documents, and newsletter, as well as their engagement with the...

This study was grounded on the view that organizations have hidden reservoirs of knowledge in terms of tacit and explicit knowledge, which can be tapped to improve performance. This is according to the postulations of the knowledge and resource based theories. Whereas there is evidence of the direct influence of knowledge sharing and performance, this study advanced a proposition that organizational learning has effect on such influence. Using a structured questionnaire, data on the...

(2015). Education for Social Change and Critical Praxis in South Africa. Education as Change: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 1-8.