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Research in Botswana has shown the importance of parental involvement in primary school education. Consequently, researchers have argued for strengthening the school-community relationship in order to improve the quality of primary school programmes and enable children to succeed in the academic environment. Nonetheless, little has been done to identify barriers to parental involvement in children's academic work and possible solutions geared towards quality education. This study therefore...

Various legislation, policies, and strategies have been formulated since the advent of the democratic dispensation as an attempt to address the problem of unethical behaviour in the South African sector. The discourse on ethics in the South African service recognises undoubtedly that South Africa has a sound legislative and policy framework for promoting professional and ethical conduct. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996), as the supreme law of the country, lays the...

In South Africa, the development of the 2001 White Paper No. 5 on Early Childhood Development (ECD) has been an instrumental policy in the development of changes to assist in preparing children for formal schooling, along with a strong focus on early childhood education. However the extent to which these are being enacted is relatively unknown. This study investigated understandings and practices of stakeholders involved in the transition of children moving from preschool or home into...

This study aims to design, implement and evaluate a professional development programme for biology teachers in Tanzania. The proposed activity-based approach to teaching supported by the 5Es instructional sequence (adapted from Bybee et al., 2006) is new in the Tanzanian secondary schools context. Consequently, this study addresses the following research questions. 1) What are the characteristics of an effective professional development programme that adequately supports learning and...

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the driving force for the successful delivery of quality education in tertiary education level, but since its advent in the 90s it has not realized its full benefits to the developing countries especially Botswana in its tertiary education.The Government of Botswana is sponsoring students from primary level till to the tertiary level but much need to be done to make to have an educated nation that is technologically literate.This paper...

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea L. Verdc.) is an underutilised, drought tolerant legume that has the potential to form an important part of Food Security for the coming decades. The challenges facing farmers to produce enough food for the growing world population – particularly that of climatic instability – are well documented and together represent probably one of the biggest challenges humanity has faced. Our extreme reliance on a limited number of staple (often nonindigenous and...

Background: The global burden of oral disease and risk behavior is concentrated in underprivileged and poor populations. HPS programs are promising methods for promoting health, including oral health. Objective: The present thesis aimed to collect information about the oral health status, oral health behavior, and oral health-related quality of life among school students and to use this information to implement and evaluate an HPS program that was directed at improving oral health, thereby...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The youth has been identified as one of the most vulnerable, at risk groups of HIV infection. The effects of HIV amongst this population hold many dire consequences and subsequently much investment has been put into HIV prevention programmes amongst this population. It is important that these are prevention programmes with impact. Prevention programmes with impact need to understand and consider the factors that interfere with safe sexual practices. One such factor is risk...

Suicidal behaviour is a serious public health problem. Globally and in South Africa a gendered pattern of suicide rates has been observed, with males being more likely to kill themselves than females. To date little quantitative and qualitative research is available on young male suicidal behaviour in South Africa. This study investigated the attitudes, beliefs and myths young male students hold about suicidal behaviour. Thirteen male university students (ages 20 to 25 years; with and...

The period from 1980 to 2003 may have seen the brighter side of the Zimbabwean economy, with the nation reaching the worst levels in terms of economic performance between 2003 and 2008.In light of the crucial role that education seems to play in economic growth, this study explores the relationship between education and economic growth in Zimbabwe for the period 1980 to 2003.The choice of the period was determined by the attempt to exclude years in which the country was in economic doldrums...

This article discusses the results of exploratory study of integration of ICT in teaching and learning of Kiswahili language in Kenyan secondary schools taking the case of Kakamega county in western part of Kenya. A survey design technique was adopted. Forty five teachers were selected to act as sample size for the study. Questionnaires and interview protocols were used to collect the data. The data collected was analyzed through descriptive statistical techniques. The results are summarized...

In recent years, there have been a number of innovations and reforms aimed at making education relevant to the needs of the society. Despite the premium placed on education, there continue to be challenging and persistent issues negatively affecting teacher education. One of these challenges is the generalist approach of primary schools whereby teachers teach all subjects in the curriculum. This is often a departure from their pre-service training where they were trained as specialists. The...

This chapter explores the concept of children’s rights. Reference is made to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations 1989), the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (Organisation of African Unity 1990) and the Sociology of Childhood which positions the child as an active agent (Jenks 1982; Prout and James 1990). After discussing children’s rights in some depth and problematizing the concept of children’s rights in the international context,...

The study reports on women principals’ management experiences in four schools. Using a feminist lens and school management theories, this paper discusses gender-based experiences of women school principals, and the implications of these for effective management of schools. The inductive analysis offered makes use of data generated from semi-structured interviews, observations and document analysis with four women school principals. It reveals that women principals experienced being caught in...

Relatives as caregivers to their loved ones who are diagnosed with AIDS and attending Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) clinic have experiences which could affect their daily psychological functioning. They further reported reduced levels of physical functioning that affect their quality of life and care giving capacity. The study explored the experiences of relatives caring for family members attending Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) clinic in a tertiary hospital of Limpopo Province. A qualitative,...

Students with Hearing Impairment (HI) are experiencing learning problems in most institutions of Higher Learning in Zimbabwe. Access to colleges and universities is limited and where they are accepted, there are no facilities to cater for their needs, hence there is need to develop learning materials that enable these students to learn effectively through Open Distance Learning(ODL) especially with Zimbabwe Open University(ZOU). The few Hard of hearing students enrolled at Zimbabwe Open...

Zimbabwe Distance Open University is enrols students from both urban and rural settings. The majority of students living and working in rural areas have limited or no access to computers and electricity as a result the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the learning process is very limited. Though government has realized the importance of developing ICT for learning purposes, in practice very little has materialized in the provision of the ICT technology especially in...