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This paper describes research conducted alongside the implementation of ‘Translation Activities’ to teach science process skills in three Schools for Children with Special Educational Needs (known as special schools) in the Western Cape, South Africa. Teachers were interviewed about the differences of teaching science to their learners in the context of the new Outcomes Based Education Curriculum. They were then trained in the strategy and observed while they started to implement it in their...
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This paper discusses development assistance on disability and education in southern Africa. Development assistance for people with disabilities has for a long time been based on the charity and medical models. It has not been perceived in the context of national development. Many development agencies and charitable organisations tend to emphasise their own agenda, which may not necessarily be that of the local people with disabilities. As a result, the anticipated impact of development...
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Current debates about languages in education are fraught with controversy and opposing views, and real-world experience reveals huge gaps between idealistic theory and on-the-ground practice. It is important to examine this issue in the light of democracy and the declared need for consultation with all stakeholders, and to consider the needs of the learners in society as well as those of the educators. One particular area of contest and debate is the teaching of Xhosa, and the use of the...
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Extracted from text ... Improving the quality of partnerships between the public and private sectors in South African higher education PIYUSHI KOTECHA PIYUSHI KOTECHA was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association (SAUVCA) in April 1998. Her previous positions include National Director of the South African Association for Academic Development (SAAAD) and Director of the Wits Integrated Study Programme in Engineering (WISPE) at...
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From 1987 to 1989 I taught in the Archaeology Unit of the History Department at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 and have returned to the Unit for extended periods on an average of nearly every year since, in the context of ongoing archaeological research in Tanzania and in collaboration with archaeology faculty and students at the University. The following are observations and reflections based on my initial two years of teaching there, and on the changes and continuities...
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This paper draws policy conclusions from a four-month experiment to bring information technology to bear on the problem of HIV / AIDS in southern Africa during preparations for the Dakar World Education Forum in April 2000. A UNDP-sponsored interactive virtual e-dialogue among sub-Saharan African voices addressed 14 major issues currently facing educational policymakers. By networking through a neutral, user-friendly medium, this project generated surprisingly wide regional interest. Among...
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This paper examines the prevalence of gender based violence in African schools, drawing on a small number of studies. It questions the suitability of the school as the location of HIV / AIDS prevention campaigns given that schools are the site of high levels of gender violence, most of it directed at girls. If adolescents, especially girls, are indeed a high risk group for HIV infection, then the existence of widespread sexual activity in conditions of intimidation, harassment and in some...
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is strongly associated with cardiomyopathy and hypertension. This study focuses on early hemodynamic impairment and DM exposure time amplified by atherosclerosis before the onset of associated cardiomyopathy and hypertension in central Africans. Prospectively, demographic, hemodynamic, lipid, anthropometric, and urinary data of 48 atheromatous diabetics, 39 uncomplicated diabetics, and 27 normal subjects before incidence of cardiomyopathy, hypertension, stroke, and...
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The private provision of higher education in South Africa shares historical roots with public higher education institutions. Over the years, the two have swung between convergence and divergence. Post-secondary education was privately offered until the state intervened through financial grants, which paved the way for state control of the governance and functioning of institutions. Private provision of higher education continued to operate on the fringes of public higher education. Later,...
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La decentralisation en Ouganda a cree un besoin de specialistes qualifies en information dans le gouvernement local, mais meme lorsque de tels postes sont annonces, ils n'attirent pas de candidats, probablement parce que les etudiants ne percoivent pas l'environnement de travail local. L'article presente les resultats d'une etude exploratoire menee par l'Ecole africaine de bibliotheconomie et sciences de l'information (East African School of Library and Information Studies - EASLIS) de...
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The study sought to examine, for South African adolescents: 1) the reliability of sub-scales of the Communities that Care Youth Survey (CTC Youth Survey) of risk and protective factors for drug use and anti-social behavior; and 2) the extent to which tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use can be predicted from community, family, school, and peer-individual factors based on sub-scales of the CTC Youth Survey. On two occasions, 92 male and 31 female, Grade 8 and 11 students completed measures...