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Since 1994, the South African military had to cope with a new strategic environment and a changed political setting. Collaborative security demarcated the Southern African strategic environment whi...
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Objectives . To document and compare prevalence rates of adolescent injury-related risk behaviours at six sites in South Africa. Design . The identical self-administered instrument was used at all sites. Prevalence rates (with 95% confidence intervals) were calculated taking the multistage cluster sampling strategy into account. Setting and subjects. In Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Mankweng participants were drawn from either grades 8 or 9, and grade 11, while in Queenstown and...
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Since the year 2000 Linkoping University (Sweden), together with the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the University of British Colombia (Canada) and the University of Technology (Australia) offers an educational programme called The Intercontinental Master’s programme in Adult Learning and Global Change (60 ECTS credits), which engages students with varied language, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
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Low back pain is sufficiently disabling and a common cause of disability particularly during the productive middle years of adult life. Disability implies interference with daily activities.To assess and document the disability associated with low back pain in terms of sick leave days, interference with daily activities and some pain characteristics.This study was carried out in the Orthopaedic out patient clinic of Mulago Hospital, a tertiary national referral hospital in Kampala, Uganda....
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Journal Article The Distribution of Education and Health Services in Madagascar over the 1990s: Increasing Progressivity in an Era of Low Growth Get access Peter Glick, Peter Glick 1Peter Glick is the corresponding author, e-mail: pjg4@cornell.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mamisoa Razakamanantsoa Mamisoa Razakamanantsoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of African Economies, Volume 15, Issue 3,...
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Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore connections between the presence of a library at two schools in rural Uganda and certain student academic engagement indicators, such as scholastic performance, reading habits, study habits, and library use patterns. The study is not intended to demonstrate strong correlations between these items, rather, it is a limited exploration of certain questions meant to inform further enquiry in the area. Five specific questions guided the research:...
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"Report from Awka: Pollution, Progress, and Promise in Nigeria." Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 61(5), pp. 195–196
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This study explores the relationship between the social cognitive construct of career decision-making self-efficacy and the outcome variables of vocational identity and career exploration behaviors in a sample of 72 urban African American high school students. The results indicate that higher levels of career decision-making self-efficacy are related to both a more differentiated vocational self-concept and to greater engagement with career exploration activities. Implications for career guidance and future research are discussed.
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Abstract This article explores how storytelling can help create a space for transformational learning. In particular it looks at the role of storytelling in education for peace in Africa. It also touches on related issues, including the role of historic peace churches, the role of women, and the role of faith convictions, in the process of moving from violence to peace with justice. The case study for the essay is the Watu Wa Amani (People of Peace) conference held in Nairobi in 2004.
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Finnish women missionaries have made a major contribution to the training of women teachers in Ovamboland, the northern part of present Namibia. In this paper I examine how African women teachers perceive the impact of Finnish teachers on their career development and their role in society. Data was gathered in Namibia in 1999. Results reveal that missionary women have played a significant role in the process of creating a new social category, that of a career women in the Ovambo society. The...
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In this prospective study, we assessed the simplified multi-organ dysfunction score (sMODS) in 485 consecutive African children, hospitalized with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Children were grouped according to their ability to walk unaided (Group 1, N = 414), sit unaided (Group 2, N = 63), or inability of both (Group 3, N = 8) before contracting malaria. The sMODS on admission to hospital was highly correlated with prolonged disease duration in Groups 1 and 2 (Spearman r = 0.79 and r =...
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Abstract Schools in developing contexts, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, are often resource poor and seek to access resources from their external environments in order to improve school performance. Critical conduits for resource access are found among the school's external network of relationships between school administrators. Using both network and qualitative methods in the field, this research explores and describes the external social relationships among secondary school headteachers in...
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Dietary patterns among low-income African Americans are associated with high cancer incidence and mortality. Dietary fiber consumption, especially from fruits and vegetables sources, is low in this population, and intakes of fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and salt are high.1 Consequently, there is a need for effective nutrition education programs for this population. But changing eating behaviors is difficult in any population, and 2 problems that make change especially difficult for this...
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This paper is informed by Deweyean pragmatism, critical pedagogy, Marxist humanism and social constructivism, all of which see teacher professional learning as a process of constructing knowledge and identity through critical interdependence.In addition to presenting the philosophical root of the reflective approach to teaching and the structure for engaging student teachers in reflective processes, I present the outcome of my own and my colleagues' attempts to unlock the reflective...
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The real problem with the increasing use of English as a global language, particularly the spread of American influence in former British colonies, is the acceptable variety to be used in teaching and examination, between British English and American English. The problem becomes even greater with the emergence of indigenised varieties of English in such countries. However, with the rapidly expanding role of English as a means of communication among non-native speakers of English, the...