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177 respondents attending a midwestern state university reported greater alienation from the wider society when they held more positive attitudes than negative ones toward women and homosexuals. Alienation and attitudes toward African-Americans, women, and homosexuals were not influenced by gender or religiosity.

Prior to April 1993, the educational system in South Africa consisted of five separate departments of education. The Department of Education and Training (DET) governed education for the 10 black groups., excluding independent states and self-governing states. This paper describes the DET's inservice training policy for senior personnel, particularly the Top-Down Program and the Farm School Program. In the Top-Down Program, school inspectors trained group facilitators, who then trained...

Broadly speaking, two approaches to missionary education in South Africa can be distinguished: a facts and figures approach featuring mainly the historical facts, statistics and other data concerning this period in education, and a rather more critical approach intended to prove the point that missionary education was instrumental in alienating the blacks from their traditional cultural heritage and in employing black labour in the class-dominated capitalist society of South Africa. A third...

The views and knowledge level of 135 randomly selected Secondary School teachers in the Abeokuta Local Government area of Ogun State on drug abuse were sought through a self report anonymous questionnaire. They were mostly male teachers (59.3%) under the age of 30 years (89.6%). The majority (59.3%) were never exposed to drug education as students whilst less than 20% have been exposed since qualifying as teachers. 72.6% do not currently teach their students Drug education. Although the...

This article is based on a research survey carried out in 1987. This pilot study was done at Harare Polytechnic. Other technical colleges involved were: Bulawayo Technical College, KweKwe Technical College, Gweru Technical College, Masvingo and Mutare Technical College. In fact only one technical college - Kushinga Phikelela was not involved. The study concentrated on the Automotive, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments. This study investigated general problems experienced by...

The Neogene tectonics and volcanism in the rift area of northern Tanzania are intimately related. A major phase of late Tertiary faulting, giving rise to a broad tectonic depression, was followed by extrusion of large amounts of basaltic to trachyte magmas from large shield volcanoes. This was separated by a second major phase of faulting at about 1.2 Ma from a Late Pleistocene-Recent phase of small volume, explosive nephelinite-phonolite-carbonatite volcanism that contrasts with the earlier...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether significant group, gender, and grade differences existed in the preferred learning styles of gifted minority students. The Learning Style Inventory (Dunn, Dunn, & Price, 1987) was administered to 54 African‐American (20 males, 34 females), 61 third‐generation Mexican‐American (26 males, 35 females), and 40 third‐generation American‐born Chinese (25 males, 15 females) students. A three‐way analysis of variance on the LSI raw scores of gifted...

Data from the 1988 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey is employed to determine the existence of a relationship between the amount of education a woman has and her intent to cease childbearing. The findings are that with increasing levels of education, a female's desire to cease reproduction also increases. However, this relationship is obscured if parity is not controlled.The Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 1988, was used to examine responses from 2490 fecund women aged 20-49 with no...

Summary The drought‐deciduous woodlands in Kitui, Kenya are dominated by Commiphora africana and Acacia spp. including Acacia senegal, A. tortilis and A. mellifera . The 1990 density was 329 trees, 3571 shrubs and 1442 seedlings per hectare of Acacia species. Trees of Commiphora africana have survived because the tree is useless for firewood or timber. Only a few trees of Acacia species, which are useful for fuel, remained, because people cut the trees selectively. The dominant species in...

Many scholars, especially in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, have been attracted to the study of dependency theory in economics and have recently extended such theories to their criticism and attacks on social and cultural imperialism. The mass media in particular, as a technoindustrial mechanism for transmitting information and entertainment to a potential mass audience, are seen as an important element in this global process. Although dependency theory is...

In this paper I compare the effects of the 1984 drought on agricultural production, income, food consumption, and nutrition of farm and non‐farm households in South Nyanza District, Kenya. Survey work covered the period 1984 to 1987. It was the late arrival of the long rains in spring 1984, rather than an absolute shortfall in rain, that caused most of the fluctuations in agricultural production. Agricultural households who were least affected by the drought were able to cope by increasing...

For mathematics students in schools and universities in Papua New Guinea, English is usually a second (or third or fourth) language. Often, the difficulties that these students have with mathematical questions arise not because they have problems with the required mathematical operations but because they have problems with reading English. This seems to be the case even at tertiary level. Research on other second language learners seems to show that inadequate lexical knowledge is very often...

In the South African context, the returns to schooling of young African males between 20 and 29 years of age increased significantly between 1975 and 1985, while the returns enjoyed by older African males improved negligibly if at all. Evidence is presented suggesting that an improvement in the quality of schooling of Africans between the early sixties and the early seventies is partly responsible for the rise in schooling returns. The implications for wage levels of the breakdown of the...

This paper discusses three main issues, namely (a) some basic facts on the access of females and males to higher education in Africa (b) participation of men and women with higher education in the labour market particularly, in the civil service, higher education and in entrepreneurial activities; and (c) some of the reasons why there is disparity in the percentages of men and women who have access to higher education. These issues are explored with emphasis on the social and cultural...

This paper discusses three main issues, namely (a) some basic facts on the access of females and males to higher education in Africa (b) participation of men and women with higher education in the labour market particularly, in the civil service, higher education and in entrepreneurial activities; and (c) some of the reasons why there is disparity in the percentages of men and women who have access to higher education. These issues are explored with emphasis on the social and cultural...

In many developing countries there has not been any systematic analysis of societal beliefs and attitudes towards drug entities, the meaning which is attributed to drugs and their effects and how such meanings might influence drug consumption and health seeking behaviour. It is in many developing countries that a lot of antimicrobial agents are available freely over the counter or on the street. This is said to make the assessment of the therapeutic outcome during their use often very...