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(2002). Value orientations of teacher education students in Ireland, Palestine, Costa Rica and the USA. Irish Educational Studies: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 1-20.
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This case study discusses the path toward the development of a democratic partnership between a Namibian college of education and four schools in the local educational area. It describes the initial educational conditions in postindependent Namibia and the potential role of education reform for the development of democratic values. Indicators of democratic values are discussed and used to understand partnership initiation and the resulting changes in the interrelationships of the college and...
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In Black Africa, epilepsy is usually affected by sociocultural attitudes. A school survey concerning epilepsy was conducted in February 1999 in Bobo-Dioulasso, an Islamic region. Knowledge and attitudes towards epilepsy in secondary school students was evaluated through focus group discussions done in secondary schools. Epilepsy was supposed to be a chronic disease attributed to brain damage, or spiritual. The students usually described the "Grand Mal" generalized tonic-clonic form of...
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Objective: To determine the various major sources of Oral Health Education (OHE) for primary school teachers in Rungwe District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania. Design: Cross-sectional study using a self-administered close-ended questionnaire. Participants and setting: 232 rural and urban in-service primary school teachers and 195 final-year-teacher trainees at college. Main outcome measures: Socio-demographic factors, common teachers’ OHE sources, common sources of OHE teaching aides, and teachers’...
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This paper reports part of a wider study that investigated classroom-learning environment, and the enacted teaching and learning practice in a Grade 9 high school science classroom in Papua New Guinea. Findings from the study revealed that the informal traditional practice of teaching and learning in Papua New Guinea differed significantly from the modern approach adopted by the country based on imported models from the West. There was evidence to show that the informal traditional teaching...
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Of 129 first-year students at an historically Black university students in psychology reported significantly less depression than nonpsychology students, and younger students reported significantly lower scores on depression than older students on the Beck Depression Inventory.
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Prosthetics and Orthotics International 26(3):p 178-181, December 2002. | DOI: 10.1080/03093640208726645
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A descriptive type of research using a structured mailed questionnaire was used to determine factors influencing the attrition of teachers in Secondary Schools in Botswana. The target population of the study was secondary school teachers in Botswana. A cluster random representative sample size (n= 368) of teachers was drawn to gather data. The validity and reliability of the instrument were established. Results of the study revealed that teachers agreed that five factors influenced the...
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Abstract This study presents two approaches of textural classification on a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ERS‐2 image, with the aim of the location of the flows of lava and of the serviced zones around the volcanic site of the Mountain Cameroon. The first approach is a method of progressive supervised classification, where a single class is extracted at the same moment, by using 7 parameters of texture stemming from the run length method. Three classes of texture were extracted by this...
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This article explores theoretical and historical problems associated with representations of gender and race in the Third World. Using a feminist cultural studies approach, the author examines representations associated with the concept of African tradition that have shaped colonial and post-colonial education policy for girls in Tanzania. Archival materials from missionary, colonial, and African sources reveal the multiple and often conflicting views of tradition conveyed through programmes...