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Students in South Africa demanded that Rhodes Must Fall. They led nationwide protests for education and social reform. What must fall in California? The Rhodes Must Fall collective (RMF), which is overwhelmingly led by marginalized, Black university students, has demanded more than institutional “transformation.” Instead, they have consistently demanded total “decolonization”: a radical abolition and re-imagination of entire social structures. Other university students, like those in CA and...
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Man is a social being with his nature and instinct that allows him to diversify the tools and means of positive interaction and cultural integration with the other according to foundations, rules, traditions and symbols that are subject to modernity and development. In the 17th and 17th centuries AD, explorers caught the attention of signs and inscriptions found on Negro skins in Africa, and by studying them, he found that it is a culture enjoyed by all Tribe and constitute meanings and systems in the lives of its members.
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Abstract To enhance the portfolio allocation process, individuals need to understand their financial ability and psychological willingness to tolerate risks. To do this, their risk tolerance level must be quantified. This study used a survey questionnaire to collect data from 470 students at selected South African universities, and a binary logistic regression to test the effect of demographic factors on financial risk tolerance versus non-financial risk tolerance. Our findings suggest that...
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Education sector considers one of the vital sectors that plays a significant role in the national economy, particularly, the higher education sector, for dealing with the fundamental category that constitutes the Egyptian identity and responsible for producing minds and forming the Egyptian conscience. The research problem is summed up in that education sector in general and the higher one specifically encounter several challenges which on top are the rarity of economic resources,...
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Abstract Bullying is part of the reality of teachers and learners all over the world. While other forms of bullying are limited to the time when learners interact face-to-face, cyberbullying follows learners via their electronic devices wherever they go. Bullying negatively affect victims and amongst others result in anxiety, low self-esteem and poor academic performance. In some instances, victims become suicidal. Preventing and counteracting bullying requires interventions on several...
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Alcohol and illicit drug use has been recognized as a growing problem among adolescents in Botswana. Little is known about factors affecting alcohol and drug use among Botswana's secondary school students. To aid the design and implementation of effective public health interventions, we sought to determine the prevalence of alcohol and drug use in secondary school students in urban and peri-urban areas of Botswana, and to evaluate risk and protective factors for substance use. We performed a...
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Abstract Impacts of climate change are often acute for those who live in informal settlements, the places where poverty, inequality and deprivation are concentrated in cities across the developing world. To broaden the strategies to address this issue, many cities are now embracing ecosystem-based adaptation and resilience. But, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the approach is yet to make much headway. This paper examines how climate change impacts on poor urban people via one component of urban...
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This article gives a bird's eye view of a doctoral thesis which investigated the labelling of non-disabled secondary school learners, with particular reference to the social and psychological spheres, and their influence on learning.It reports on the process and forms of labelling as one part of the findings.The study had 54 participants: three school headmasters, 9 form three teachers, 8 lower sixth form teachers, 18 form three learners and 16 lower sixth form learners who were purposively...
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Internet and digital media for educational purposes have significantly improved knowledge creation.The Internet has proven itself to be a valuable resource in the enhancement of knowledge production and dissemination.The purpose of the study was to establish how excessive non-academic use of the Internet detrimentally affects undergraduate students' daily lives.Using survey design, a total of 390 University undergraduate students comprising mainly adolescents/ young adults were selected...
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Abstract This study is designed to investigate the factors influencing students' intention to adopt electronic learning (e-learning) in a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) economy. The overarching theory underpinning this study is the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) which has been extended to include the learner's computer self-efficacy, the course flexibility and the instructor's attitude dimensions. Constructs from this extended TAM were used to design a questionnaire that was...
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This study examined the impact of disaggregate and aggregate energy, economic development, urbanization and political institutional quality on environmental pollution using a time series data spanning from 1971 to 2017. The study employed response surface regressions, structural break cumulative sum (CUSUM) test based on recursive residuals and ordinary least squares (OLS) residuals for parameter stability en route to estimating the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) regression. The...