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Generational differences and financial and motivational barriers have limited student access to humanities resources. We contend that Simulation-based Learning Games (SLGs) offer a potential means for delivering humanities content in a format that is more accessible to students and more appealing – both visually and interactively – than traditional educational materials. To explore this assertion, a prototype SLG was developed by students and faculty at the University of Central Florida....

Generational differences and financial and motivational barriers have limited student access to humanities resources. We contend that Simulation-based Learning Games (SLGs) offer a potential means for delivering humanities content in a format that is more accessible to students and more appealing – both visually and interactively – than traditional educational materials. To explore this assertion, a prototype SLG was developed by students and faculty at the University of Central Florida....

This article focuses on the relationship between principals and school governing bodies in South Africa. Although there are several different groups represented on the governing body, this article relates mainly to the role and function of the parental representatives. The parents have a majority on the governing bodies and therefore have an important role to play in the effective functioning of the school. The legislation does not provide enough clarity on the daily functioning of the...

In Africa, administrators have inadequate scholarly debates on the type of teacher education required to bring about educational and social transformation. Most of the methodologies we use to train our teachers come from abroad and are ill suited to address the continent's problems. This reflective article describes the experiences of the author and other teacher educators with Critical Practitioner Inquiry (CPI), a teacher education program born in the south of Africa to liberate teachers...

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of EducationVolume 105, Issue 2 p. 211-230 Chapter 11 The Ties That Bind: Race and Restitution in Education Law and Policy in South Africa and the United States of America1 Jonathan D. Jansen, Jonathan D. Jansen University of PretoriaSearch for more papers by this author Jonathan D. Jansen, Jonathan D. Jansen University of PretoriaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 October 2006...

The study investigated the general attitude of Nigerian secondary school teachers toward peer evaluation of teachers. It also sought to determine whether teacher characteristics such as gender, school geographical location, academic qualification and teaching experience affected Nigerian teachers’ attitude toward peer evaluation of teachers. To accomplish the research purpose, four null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The research design adopted was a survey. The sample...

Urinary schistosomiasis remains a significant burden for Africa and the Middle East. The success of population-based control programs will depend on their impact, over many years, on Schistosoma haematobium reinfection and associated disease. In a multi-year (1984-1992) control program in Kenya, we examined risk for S. haematobium reinfection and late disease during and after annual school-based treatment. In this setting, long-term risk of new infection was independently associated with...

Language and cultural differences between patients and health care providers may have adverse health consequences. Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital is a paediatric teaching hospital in Cape Town where staff communicate mainly in English or Afrikaans, while many patients speak Xhosa as their first language.To examine whether differences in the definitions of common respiratory medical terminology by patients and doctors cause miscommunication and to explore culture-specific models...

Disease is closely linked to the social context in which we live. Difficulty with communication, cultural incompatibility between patients and health care providers and socioeconomic obstacles are important barriers to quality care when doctors and patients come from different backgrounds and speak different languages. Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCH) is a paediatric teaching hospital in Cape Town where staff members communicate mainly in English or Afrikaans, while many...

The present study explored the relationship between South African preschool children's intelligence scores achieved on the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHD), and the accuracy of teachers' ratings of the human-figure drawings and teachers' general perceptions of children's intellectual maturity. The GHD was administered individually to 30 boys and 30 girls between the ages of 4 and 6 years ( M = 4.5, SD = 0.7) from a multicultural (Black, Colored, and White) preschool near the Cape, South...

Approaching men’s health behaviors from a gender socialization framework, we hypothesized that (a) men’s health behaviors would significantly relate to their conformity to traditional masculine norms, (b) these behaviors would significantly differ as a function of their nationality, and (c) masculinity and nationality would significantly interact to predict men’s health behaviors. Five hundred forty-six male college students (384 Kenyan men, 162 U.S. men) completed the Health Behavior...

The attitudes toward training courses are documented for the rapidly growing African American segment of small business owners. The study provides evidence supporting the training-business creation model suggested by the Small Business Act and by Becker’s work on human capital. Over 700 responses to a mail survey were divided into African American small business owners and Caucasian American small business owners. The African American small business owners rated the training courses as...

Daudi Mavura, MD, is a first-year dermatology resident and Jose Contreras-Ruiz, MD, is Director, Department of Dermatology, "Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez" General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.

When teaching alternative dispute resolution skills, such as negotiation and mediation, it is necessary to engage the students in an active learning process. This article describes the content of a two‐day course run for the Law Society of South Africa School for Legal Practice, Durban, in which students are taught negotiation and mediation skills. A variety of interactive learning methods are used in which students experience non‐adversarial methods of dispute resolution. By the end of the...

Droughts and epidemics are recurrent phenomena in the history of Sudanic Africa. Only in the aftermath of the famines of 1973–74 and 1984–85 in the Sahel zone did historians begin to question their easy classification as ‘natural disasters’ and to look more closely at the interplay of climatic and societal stress factors in the causation process. Research into the history of disasters in pre-colonial Sudanic Africa has to face the problem of a distinctive lack of available source material....

This project was designed and implemented (January 2003-November 2004) in response to Malawi's severe food crisis in 2002, caused by the drought and floods in 2001 and 2002, which resulted in a significant drop in maize output, the country's main staple food. The food crisis was exacerbated by a suboptimal harvest in the previous year. In addition, the Early Warning System (EWS) failed by predicting a food surplus when in fact a major food deficit was looming. Poor management of the...