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In examining the status of women in developing countries, most research emphasizes the impact of development indicators, such as income or health, on women. This paper moves beyond development indicators by discussing women's own perceptions of social status and power in Larteh, a rural town in Ghana.This paper focuses particularly on the effects of gender and education on perceptions of social status and power. The first section provides a brief overview of the history of Ghana, which...
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Abstract Teaching English for Academic Purposes, and with that a particular ‘brand’ of academic culture, at an African university, ie in a society with a very different historical and cultural background, involves more than just language teaching. After a brief sketch of the historical and sociolingwstic conditions, EAP is contrasted with African oral performance (orature) as this relates to discursive conventions amongst a community of African students; several socio-pragmatic and...
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In 1996 a colleague of the history department and I developed and taught an interdisciplinary course 'South Africa and Shaka-Literature and History' at the Oberstufenkolleg Bielefeld as an experiment in interdisciplinary team-teaching in our section 'cultures and histories,2. Various reasons motivated us to choose such an apparently 'far away' topic: the exciting political situation in South Africa, the question of nationbuilding and the role of tradition in this context. We had looked for a...
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Although quality assurance and control in the global higher education scene is not a new phenomenon, South African higher education has only recently embarked on concerted engagement with quality issues. Similar to other higher education systems, the growing interest in and attention to quality matters in South African higher education were not strictly educational developments, but originated mainly from outside the academic sphere of the universities. Many of the factors which gave rise...
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(1999). Learning from the local: Rural livelihoods in ditsobotla, north west province, South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 49-73.
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ABSTRACT The author raises questions about the cultural dependence of mathematics teaching based on his time as a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the University of Ghana.
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The purpose of this chapter is to advance theoretical understanding of the role of the familys character and practices especially variability in the work and social demands parents place on daughters in determining when girls leave school. First we review how sociologists and economists have represented the school attainment process within developing-country settings. Second we report on our household-level study of female school attainment among young black South Africans. After reviewing...
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This study presents new major and trace element and Sr-Nd isotopic results for a suite of Miocene-Recent mafic lavas from the Kivu volcanic province in the western branch of the East African Rift. These lavas exhibit a very wide range in chemical and isotopic characteristics, due to a lithospheric mantle source region that is heterogeneous on a small scale, probably < 1 km. The chemical and isotopic variations are mostly geographically controlled: lavas from Tshibinda volcano, which lies on...
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This paper reports the results of a study to investigate the relative influence of some sociodemographic variables on oral hygiene and health of primary school children in Ibadan, Nigeria. The pupils were from two different socioeconomic strata of the society and their ages ranged between 7 and 16 years. They were interviewed in order to obtain information on their knowledge and practices about oral hygiene, after which intro-oral examinations were conducted on the same children. Results of...