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The research project is an attempt to create a history of History textbooks. Over the last several years the field of History textbooks has attracted much attention and interest from the media in both Japan and South Africa. The study aims to demonstrate ethnic, racial and nationalist bias, fabrication, distortions, omissions and emphases in school history textbooks, and to assess the extent to which textbooks have been effective in instilling sense of nationalism in the minds of school...
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To assess the prevalence of some of the occlusal anomalies in Ibadan, Nigeria, an epidemiological survey of 644 secondary school children aged 12-18 years (mean age, 14.73 +/- 1.17 S.D.) was done. The sample consisting of 341(53%) males and 303(47%) females was randomly selected. About 66% were from the middle social class while 34% belonged to the working class. Scissors bite recorded the highest prevalence (6.7%) and cross bite was next with 2.2%. No statistically significant associations...
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Abstract During the early 1980s the secondary education system in Ghana was reorganised. This study concerns one part of this: the attempt to introduce a more vocationally-orientated curriculum into the Junior Secondary Schools in Ghana. These findings are drawn from interviews at several levels, documentary analysis and school case studies. There were major gaps and inadequacies in the system in the setting of goals, in the implementation management, in the organisational structures and in...
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A questionnaire was administered to 793 randomly chosen Black university students whose ages ranged from 18 to 25 years. Analysis of variance suggested the association between depressive symptoms and alcohol use but not with tobacco use; however, alcohol and tobacco use were highly correlated. Regression analysis identified drinking status as predictor for depressive symptoms.
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Presents case studies of women entrepreneurs with visual, hearing and mobility impairments, women who have had leprosy and mothers of children with learning disabilities
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The impact on vitamin A status of the distribution of vitamin A during national immunisation days (NIDs) has not been well established despite strong promotion by international agencies and donors. Using a pre-post design, the change in prevalence of vitamin A deficiency was examined in pre-school children in Mali.Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted in Mopti region, the first in March 1997 before this strategy was adopted and the second in March 1999, four-and-a-half months after a...
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This study, whose purpose is to contribute to improving chief nurses’ (ICP, French acronym) performance and practice in the realm of health promotion, was conducted in the medical region of Kaolak in Senegal. The objective is to identify the needs for ICP's continuing education and health promotion training and to delineate their priorities. This is a descriptive study characterised by a combined methodology which integrates a qualitative phase and a quantitative phase, in which six...
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We applied a tomographic method to image an aseismic strike–slip fault in North Morocco and found that the occurrence of earthquakes is not only controlled by the state of tectonic stress but also by material heterogeneity in the crust. We have constructed an integrated model of seismic, electric, magnetic and heat flow properties across northeastern Morocco primarily based on a tomography inversion of local earthquake arrival times. The seismic images obtained show a pronounced low-velocity...
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Based on a survey of 600 disabled women. Examines the activities of 200 women already involved in running their own microenterprises and investigates the requirements of a further 400 who would like to start their own business. Identifies actions needed to create viable, sustainable enterprises
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This short article situates the following two papers (by David Klaus and by Yasuko Nagai and Ronah Lister) on Papua New Guinea in the context of discussions about maintenance and revitalisation of endangered languages, and about education through the medium of indigenous and minority languages. Two of the three authors represent organisations (the World Bank and the Summer Institute of Linguistics) which, despite their very different ways of working (one at a macro-level, with more...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of selected pain intensity scales including the Faces Pain Scale (FPS), the Verbal Description Scale, the Numeric Rating Scale, and the Iowa Pain Thermometer to assess pain in cognitively impaired minority older adults. A descriptive correlational design was used, and a convenience sample of 57 volunteers age 58 and older residing in the South was recruited for this study. The sample consisted of 8 males and 49 females...
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LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.In many countries, a major rationale for curriculum design in physical education is that it promotes a physically active lifestyle among the youths and provides a basis for the development of fundamental sports skills. Access to physical education and sport is not only a fundamental human right but it also promotes health, desirable social attitudes and values. Based on the above rationale physical education was introduced to...
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This article examines the impact of structural adjustment policies on young women's educational opportunities and reproductive health in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Despite recent improvements in Tanzania's macroeconomic performance, there is a widespread sense of economic decline at the local level that compounds the conditions of sexual risk among young women who want to pursue post-secondary schooling. The article begins with a discussion of the economic, education and...
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A number of recent studies of language teaching on the African continent (Shaalukeni, 2000; Tesfamariam, 2000) have investigated how teachers manage to retain old styles of language teaching in the face of new approaches that have been introduced by the education authorities that employ them. The conviction with which teachers justify their traditional styles of teaching suggests that they do not teach without deliberation. This presentation looks in some detail at two investigations that...