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Music and dance are human universals. Understanding the communicative nature and the interpersonal dynamics of making music and dancing has a wide area of applications from academic to artistic, educational and therapeutic uses. Cross-cultural and embodied cognitive approaches are important, as they ensure a view across a spectrum of cultural practices and allow us to explore which aspects of cognitive performance are learned and how. In this study, our aims were to use a case study to...
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This article provides a snapshot of mental health provision in Tanzania, and describes some of the excitement and challenges in setting up a new clinical psychology training course.
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This article provides a snapshot of mental health provision in Tanzania, and describes some of the excitement and challenges in setting up a new clinical psychology training course.
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Introduction Nigeria can become a major force in Africa and indeed world, if proper policies and structures are in place to entrench good reading culture. rising population of reluctant readers in this age of information explosion is disturbing. Chinelo (2010) in Nation Newspaper of May 27th noted that no society can develop more than knowledge base of its citizens. He decried dying culture of reading among children as leaders of tomorrow. This is pathetic state of Nigerian society. It is...
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Abstract This paper examines the cost effectiveness of educating boarding and day secondary students in Kisumu district in Kenya. The research designs used in this study were descriptive survey and casual comparative designs. The population consisted of five head teachers, 140 form four teachers and 609 form four students. Saturated and systematic random sampling techniques were used in the study. The sample size was as follows; five head teachers, 46 form four teachers and 201 students...
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This study explored the implementation of the recognition of prior learning (RPL) at Unisa by investigating the strengths and weaknesses of the RPL methodology, instruments and processes when taking students through the RPL process. The successes and challenges experienced by the RPL academic advisors and the academic assessors were determined and guidelines provided for the effective implementation of RPL at Unisa. The empirical research design was exploratory within a qualitative framework...
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This paper explores the multimodal engagement of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) students in a classroom in Johannesburg. Within a social semiotic framework, and using constructions of design and identity to understand the students' multimodal engagement, the paper argues that multimodal representations offer EAL students from under-resourced contexts opportunities for creativity and agency to redesign meaning. It demonstrates how they use the opportunities provided to reconstruct...
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A ZJER study on the teaching of Science in Zimbabwe High Schools through the Science, Technology and Society lens (STS)
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As the world begins to feel the effects of climate change, the frequency of droughts is increasing in the Horn of Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel is the increased mortality of livestock in drought-affected areas, which are home to 10 percent of the country's population. The second channel is by exacerbating increases in food prices, which are largely driven by worldwide price trends. Considering these two channels,...
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This study sought to investigate how teachers implemented Formative Assessment (FA) practices in Grade 9 Technology classrooms in the Fort Beaufort district. One Grade 9 learner class was purposively chosen because of the time they had spent on the programme. A sample of 5 teachers and 25 learners were selected from the 5 schools used in this study. The investigated learning area was Technology. Data were collected from the participants using in-depth interviews, observations and documents...
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This paper explores aspects of exclusion from education and how patterns of participation have been changing using national data sets. The first part of the analysis uses administrative data from countries in Sub Saharan Africa to chart enrolments by grade over the last decade and explore how enrolment has been changing in terms of grade, gender, and age. After establishing key issues that are raised by the data across eight countries the paper develops a detailed case study of changes in...
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Abstract Since 1961, History of Education at the University of South Africa (Unisa) has been part of a host of debates, paradigm shifts and transformative developments within higher education, at national level and even internationally affecting where the discipline was housed, by whom it was presented and the nature of its content. This article aims to trace these historical developments in History of Education at Unisa in an attempt to understand these developments within their contextual...
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The exploratory study is an attempt to understand the reasons that prompted African students to study in Malaysia, the challenges encountered and the coping strategies used. The research on such topics among international students is well documented, but studies on international students in Malaysia are scarce. The sample included 155 African students studying in two private higher education institutions in Malaysia. A questionnaire was administered. The results indicated that most of the...
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This paper gives a brief overview of work carried out in recent years with war-survivors in Uganda, East Africa and Sierra Leone and Liberia, West Africa including research and health services training, provision and consultancy.
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Abstract This article seeks to contribute to recent debates on the link between political settlements and state building. It proposes a theoretical framework that centres on the alternative concept of ‘elite bargain’ and suggests that inclusive elite bargains can be expected to facilitate both peace and economic development. Yet a detailed case study of elite bargains in Zambia shows that all good things do not always go together. While inclusive elite bargains have indeed helped to avoid...
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Clinical psychology training in South Africa faces numerous challenges. This article documents the historical context and current status of training programmes, and argues for the reform of training curricula, in line with evidence-based practice and more equitable provision of services.