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Despite making tremendous progress in education since independence to become a leader in literacy in Africa, Zimbabwe lags behind other nations in providing special programming for its gifted children and youths. Not only do gifted and talented students exist in Zimbabwean schools and colleges, giftedness has also been confirmed in research on indigenous cultures. This paper discusses a number of issues characterizing the discourse of gifted education in Zimbabwe. In this discourse, the...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching and learning has brought new teaching and learning experience to both teachers and students in many countries.Tanzania has made several efforts to achieve this but little has been done to determine the readiness of our schools and teachers in terms of ICT infrastructure and possession of other gadgets to help in the integration of ICT in education.This study aimed at looking into the readiness of Secondary Schools to...

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Master of Education Degree (Science Education)

With high urbanization rates, Sub-Saharan Africa is facing growing problems of poor air quality in its cities. We make a case for participatory approaches in air quality studies especially including those living in poor neighborhoods who may be particularly at risk from this trend.We used collaboration with a community based organization, interviews, focus group discussions and a community forum.We conducted a pilot study to assess health risk perceptions of air pollution for civic-minded...

One of the biggest debates in South Africa is the use and usefulness of apartheid categories when analysing society and societal behaviour.This paper examines the process of learning and unlearning that took place when a political reporting lecturer and an academic staff developer sought to explain racially biased voting in South Africa and its historical origins to students.The autoethnographic method of reflecting on teaching practice is used to explore the tensions and dilemmas that arose...

Context: Work placement, a form of work Integrated learning (WIL), is a planned period of learning in industry that is intended to give students practical experience of their field as well as meet specified learning objectives. Researchers claim that effective mentoring is one of the antecedents of successful student learning during placement. In South Africa, the National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering has a prescribed work placement duration of twelve months. From 2019, the work...

Despite efforts employed in clinical teaching, several cases of poor performance have been reported. Quality clinical teaching is important as it reinforces learning. Integrated learning ensures the achievement of quality in health care provision. The study evaluated factors influencing quality of clinical teaching in pre-service nursing education in St. Joseph mission hospital Peramiho Tanzania. This was done through a descriptive cross sectional study design. There is no published research...

Climate change is a global problem affecting agricultural production, a good adaptation strategy for this phenomena should be sought for increase agricultural production. The study was conducted in Nigeria to assess the Impact of Climate Change on root and tuber crops production among farmers in Nigeria. Secondary data were used for the study, they were collected from NRCRI Umudike and other individual publications. The result shows that climate change had negative impact on root and tubers...

Economists widely agree that there is a high positive relationship between education and development. This relationship is even more pronounced when women receive education as it not only benefits them but also all those they nurture. Despite the progress made over the last decade in enhancing access, equity, retention, quality, completion rates and gender parity in education and training in Kenya, the Technical, Vocational, and Education Training (TVET) subsector continues to experience low...

Economists widely agree that there is a high positive relationship between education and development. This relationship is even more pronounced when women receive education as it not only benefits them but also all those they nurture. Despite the progress made over the last decade in enhancing access, equity, retention, quality, completion rates and gender parity in education and training in Kenya, the Technical, Vocational, and Education Training (TVET) subsector continues to experience low...

Economists widely agree that there is a high positive relationship between education and development. This relationship is even more pronounced when women receive education as it not only benefits them but also all those they nurture. Despite the progress made over the last decade in enhancing access, equity, retention, quality, completion rates and gender parity in education and training in Kenya, the Technical, Vocational, and Education Training (TVET) subsector continues to experience low...

There is need to re-examine the inclusion or exclusion of indigenous knowledge (IK) in the university curriculum in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Western scientific knowledge on which the university curriculum in SSA is mainly based has proved to be inadequate in addressing developmental challenges. Using the curriculum of library and information science (LIS) departments in Anglophone east and southern Africa (AESA) as a case study, this chapter focuses on factors that influence the inclusion...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the School Feeding Programs in Tanzanian primary schools. The study posed four investigative questions which were answered in order to attain the research objectives. The range of the research questions were such as what extent does implication of SFPs adhere to policies and strategies? How government executes its roles and functions relating to SFPs? Do stakeholders and schools capable to take up designated roles as stipulated in the...

Potentially harmful elements (PHE) also referred to as heavy metals (HM) were analyzed in water, fish, nails and scalp hair in children between 5 and 10 years in Migori gold mining belt, Kenya. The samples were digested using acids and analyzed by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). The results revealed that the continued consumption of water and fish contaminated from gold mining activities within the vicinity, have significantly increased the concentrations of selected PHE in the nails...

The study sought to examine the effective utilisation of accounting procedures by accounting officers in Zimbabwean public schools within a decentralised financial management system in order to minimise the mismanagement of public funds. A qualitative approach of an interpretive nature was employed consisting of a semi-structured interview, observation and document analysis in the collection of data. Forty participants were selected using a purposeful non-probability sampling technique. Some...