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The following article looks at the issue of Black native languages in the educational system in the context of curricular reforms emanating from the multicultural education movement. It examines how multicultural education has dealt with the needs and concerns of African Americans and Haitians. I first look at well-publicised African American and Haitian educational events that demonstrate that the native languages of these two particular groups are not perceived as legitimate modes of...
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The study explores the distribution of all public education resources across socioeconomic, and demographic groups in South Africa. The Benefit Incidence Analysis was the methodology used to measure the distribution of public services, and how these benefited, if any, targeted groups within its population. The analysis specifies that the education system is hampered by disparities among income groups, races, and regions, with substantially lower public education resources benefiting the...
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A case study of the practices of a white teacher working in an urban elementary school with a large majority of African American students shows the problems caused by detached and unreflective teaching practice. The study emerges from a joint ethnographic research and classroom-based educational project at the school. The teacher worked with university-affiliated members of a college-school collaboration. A person-in-context conceptual frame was used to construct a contextualized and...
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uring the academic year of 1997/98, two randomised groups of second year medical students at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo learned gross anatomy of the limbs and the trunk by different teaching approaches. One group (A) dissected the thorax for 5 weeks according to an experimental programme, while the other (group B) worked on the same topic in the traditional way at UEM, which excluded dissection. The groups learned the abdomen by reversing the methods. For the study of the limbs,...
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Patterns of measles transmission at school and at home were studied in 1995 in a rural area of Senegal with a high level of vaccination coverage. Among 209 case children with a median age of 8 years, there were no deaths, although the case fatality ratio has previously been 6-7% in this area. Forty percent of the case children had been vaccinated against measles; the proportion of vaccinated children was higher among secondary cases (47%) than among index cases (33%) (prevalence ratio =...
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The study investigated the job attitude profiles of managers of secondary schools in Nigeria. 200 principals of secondary schools returned their questionnaire for the study. The School Managers Job Attitude Questionnaire (SMAJAQ) was used for collecting data, which was analysed with the analysis of variance and simple percentage. The findings showed that experience contributed significantly to the job attitude of the managers.
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Teacher education in Namibia has gone through a transformation process during the years following the independence from South African colonial and apartheid rule. This transformation is looked upon from a cyclic perspective including policy, conceptual and practical levels, professional practitioner theories, a national agenda, and decentralisation as an expression of democracy. While this transformation process is based on notions of participation there are historical authoritative...
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Abstract Several K-Fe sulphide minerals have been described from natrocarbonatite lavas erupted from the Tanzanian volcano Oldoinyo Lengai but uncertainty remains about their exact identity. They do not appear to be any of the established K-Fe sulphides according to Dawson et al. (1995) and Mitchell (1997). Here, we describe yet another variant which is a Mn- and F-bearing variety of rasvumite. It appears to have formed by reaction of Fe alabandite grains with natrocarbonatite magma and...
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In a survey conducted in 50 kindergartens or nursery schools in Nigeria, 380 teachers returned batches of eight variously completed checklists, inventories and rating scales through which a total of 615 preschoolers were adjudged to possess significant traits of giftedness as prescribed by all the instruments. To determine the effectiveness of the instruments for nominating potentially gifted kindergartners, data were collated for each instrument in terms of the number (n) and percentage of...
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Educational expansion followed by economic decline in Kenya has been associated with a decline in the social return to secondary education, conventionally calculated, from 20% in 1978 to 6% in 1995. Wage benefits from primary school have fallen but returns remain unchanged because of correspondingly falls in costs. Returns to tertiary education have not fallen. The concept of expected returns to education is introduced to allow for effects of education on earnings from self-employment and on...
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & GynaecologyVolume 106, Issue 2 p. 91-94 Training specialists in the developing world: ten years on, a success story for West Africa J. O. Martey, J. O. Martey Emeritus Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Science and Medical Technology, Kumasi, GhanaSearch for more papers by this authorC. N. Hudson, C. N. Hudson Emeritus Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, LondonSearch for...