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Anthropology & Education QuarterlyVolume 16, Issue 3 p. 177-186 Free Access The Practice of Arithmetic in Liberian Schools MARY E. BRENNER, MARY E. BRENNER Kamehameha Early Education Project Honolulu, HawaiiSearch for more papers by this author MARY E. BRENNER, MARY E. BRENNER Kamehameha Early Education Project Honolulu, HawaiiSearch for more papers by this author First published: Fall 1985 https://doi.org/10.1525/aeq.1985.16.3.05x1481yCitations: 13AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to...
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SUMMARYIn a prospective study of 652 sick pre-school children only 33% were found to be adequately nourished. Among the malnourished, 54.3% had first degree malnutrition while 32.3% and 13.4% had second and third degree malnutrition respectively. The majority of malnourished children (72.4%) had undernutrition: kwashiorkor (14.2%), marasmus 7.3%) and marasmic kwashiorkor (6.1%) was relatively less common. Furthermore, 58% of the underweight children were stunted, indicating malnutrition of...
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Sixty percent of the 60,000 annual deliveries in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe occur in the home under the care of a traditional birth attendant (TBA) who is a family member. A training guideline for TBAs was developed based on their knowledge and perceptions and cultural context of delivery care. Training took place at all of the health facilities providing delivery care. The nursing staff at all of these facilities were trained through workshops to be the trainers of the TBAs. The...
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This communication expands on the educational methods presently in action in the Gezira Medical School, Sudan with the aim of posing an approach to problem-based teaching and learning within the context of the limited resources of a developing country. Community-oriented education had been described elsewhere (Hamad, 1981, 1982). The focus in the present paper is mainly on problem-based learning (PBL). After a short review, definition of terms and an outline of the educational method of PBL,...
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Since African states began to obtain their political independence almost three decades ago, drought has exacerbated critical problems of social equality. In domestic politics, élites have used their control over food aid to enhance their power vis-à-vis those suffering from declines in agricultural production. Two scholars recently concluded that ‘food-relief programmes…have helped to widen the gap between rich and poor in virtually every country in which they operate’. Internationally, the...
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(1985). Applications of distance education in Kenya. Distance Education: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 242-247.
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Handicapping diseases have remained major problems associated with immense suffering and superstition in the African setting. There are no accurate vital statistics of the incidence of mental and physical retardation in children in Nigeria, but it is presumed to be higher than in the U.S.A. or Europe. This study shows that provision for education and rehabilitation for handicapped children, such as school accommodation, transportation, teaching aids, specialist teachers etc., attract low...
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Abstract Social work education in Nigeria is taught only in polytechnic schools and in-service training institutes. Only recently have social work course units been introduced at the university level; no Nigerian university offers a degree in the field, yet. The social work courses available are offered toward degrees in sociology. This paper describes how social work students at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, built a dispensary as part of their fieldwork in a newly-introduced...
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Summary. A programme of teaching in the behavioural sciences at a new medical school in Ghana is described. Students are introduced to problems in their first year and these are used as a means of working in small groups, for self-directed learning and the collection of data. The course continues for 5 years and leads on to a residential posting at a psychiatric hospital, and embodies a close association between ‘clinical’ medicine and psychological medicine. The programme has only been...
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Abstract A questionnaire was administered to 359 pupils and 31 teachers at seven middle-class Johannesburg high schools. The results indicated that pupils selected guidance teachers less often than parents and friends as helping agents and that, in most areas of concern, the extent to which guidance teachers were selected was negligible. Relative to this, teachers considerably overrated pupils' preference for the guidance teacher, whom they perceived as pupils' favoured source of help in...
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At Independence in 1964 the only registered nurses and midwives in Malawi were those who had trained elsewhere. This paper describes the development of midwifery training in a country which is working hard to achieve the aim of the World Health Organisation of ‘Health for All by the year 2000’.
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale GeografieVolume 76, Issue 4 p. 274-287 THE RISE AND FALL OF UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION IN PERIPHERAL NORTHERN NIGERIA ROBERT STOCK, ROBERT STOCK Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston. Ontario, K7L 3N6 Canada.Search for more papers by this author ROBERT STOCK, ROBERT STOCK Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston. Ontario, K7L 3N6 Canada.Search for more papers by this...
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