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The article offers the premise that African-American children benefit from cooperative learning strategies because of their cultural heritage, family background, and socialization. The authors brie...
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am an African Canadian woman is a conceptual framework. It is the conceptual framework used in this discussion to explore the educational standpoint and activism of five Black women teachers' concerning African Canadian children, and examine the scope and significance of these teachers' Afrocentric practice. By Afrocentric, I mean those constructs, values, knowledges, and ways of being informed by an African heritage, reshaped in North American society, and sustained and reproduced in Black...
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Between 333 African-American college students and the norming sample of 403 college students differences in the factor structure of beliefs about time as assessed by the Temporal Inventory on Meaning and Experience (TIME) were assessed. These differences may represent one component of possible cognitive-style differences between black and white college students.
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is a crisis in the education of Black people. Forty-eight percent of African Americans are functionally illiterate (Kozol, 1985). Textbooks for African American children are often insensitive to racial and ethnic concerns (Chira, 1991), and they frequently stereotype Blacks as ignorant comics, brutes, or primitives (S. Brown, 1933). Funding for predominated by African American students is woefully inadequate (Kozol, 1992). In addition, these children are often denied access to effective...
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The Bean/Cowpea collaborative research support program (CRSP) was established to address the problems of hunger and malnutrition in Africa and Latin America by increasing smallholder production of beans and cowpeas, major subsistence crops. This was to be accomplished by developing and testing improved technologies and enhancing the abilities of developing country scientists to solve problems related to bean and cowpea production and use. A major accomplishment of the CRSP has been to...
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The Bean/Cowpea collaborative research support program (CRSP) was established to address the problems of hunger and malnutrition in Africa and Latin America by increasing smallholder production of beans and cowpeas, major subsistence crops. This was to be accomplished by developing and testing improved technologies and enhancing the abilities of developing country scientists to solve problems related to bean and cowpea production and use. A major accomplishment of the CRSP has been to...
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The critical shortage and continued decline in the number of high-quality African American teachers is revealed in much of the current research about teacher supply and demand. This dilemma is predicted to worsen and have distressing consequences on the quality of education for African American children (Irvin, 1990; Tewell, 1987; Wells, 1988). Presently, African American teachers make up about 6.9% of the total teacher population (AACTE, 1989), whereas African American students represent...
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This article reports a comparative study of alcohol use and misuse among Papua New Guinea medical students in their second, third, fourth and fifth years of undergraduate study using CAGE and the Brief MAST. The study instrument was divided into three parts, namely Part A for collecting demographic data, Part B comprising the four CAGE questions and Part C comprising the ten-item Brief MAST. The self-administered questionnaires were distributed to each year group separately by one of the two...