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Using a national sample of 325, this study investigates the extent of nurses' involvement in antenatal health education and explores variables that may be associated with their involvement. The study documents the importance of midwifery training and a nurse's own childbirth experience in promoting involvement in antenatal health education. It points to the relative unimportance of academic qualifications for nurses involved in antenatal health education. Findings show that work-related...
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Fasola, M., Hafner, H., Prosper, J., van der Kooij, H. & V. Schogolev, I. 2000. Population changes in European herons in relation to African climate. Ostrich 71 (1 & 2): 52–55. We describe population changes for six heron species, which have occurred during the past three decades in five areas of southern and central Europe. We seek correlations in the population levels between areas and between species, and we test the relationship between breeding population and climate during the...
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IT MAY SEEM a bit odd and disconcerting to hear that African Americans have for quite some time demon? strated an affinity for, and even an attraction to, German culture. But long before the rise of German fas? cism, two world wars, and a century of stereotyping Germans as brutal, racist, and warmongering Huns, an edu? cated elite among African Americans had felt a special kin? ship with Germany and many of her heroes. According to Leroy T. Hopkins, a black Harvard-trained professor of...
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This article explores whether African Americans should support the current education reform/ standards movement. It examines the historical perspective of the struggle by African American students from the 1950s through the 1990s to achieve academic excellence and that goal has been so elusive. A critical review of issues such as opportunity to learn, tracking, and students' perceptions of the standards movement as impediments is also provided. In addition, the role of colleges and...
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L'auteur est un historien ethiopien dont les travaux font autorite dans l'histoire contemporaine de l'Ethiopie. On est tout d'abord intrigue par la phrase qui apparait sur la couverture de son livre, redigee en amharique, en anglais et en arabe : « La crainte de Dieu est le commencement de la connaissance. » Des l'introduction, il rappelle qu'en 1990 il a redige un opuscule : The Crisis of Ethiopian Education. Some Implications for Nation Building. A cette epoque, on savait Mangestu Ha...
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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION in the Department of Foundations of Education of the Faculty of Education at the University of Zululand, 2000.
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Primary education makes people literate and numerate thereby enabling them to effectively manage their domestic and occupational duties. In Ethiopia the rate of primary school participation is very low even when compared with other Sub-Saharan African countries. Officially, the enrolment rate is 34% while, according to this study, it is 36% (with standard deviation 0.004). Based on the low levels of enrolment this study looks into the salient socio-economic and demographic aspects of school...