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Climate change has become a global concern with substantial impacts in all regions, especially coastal communities. In response, coastal communities take different adaptation strategies to minimise the negative impacts of climate change. Understanding climate change from the perspective of local communities can provide valuable insights into policy and strategy planning for the unprecedented consequences of climate change. Data was gathered in three sub-locations through a questionnaire...
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Resources play a crucial role in the inclusive classroom to support learners learning from early childhood centres until to tertiary institutions. Resources assist learners to understand the object and enjoy the lesson that the teacher is conveying. The chapter aims to discuss the impact of resources in the delivery of inclusive education in the African context. The chapter describes various resources such as devices that help learners with the functions of daily life and for stabilising,...
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African knowledge, also known as indigenous knowledge, is based on personal experience and culture that emphasise interpersonal relationships. It integrates Indigenous Knowledge System (s) (IKS) during teaching and learning in an inclusive classroom. This chapter aims to identify and discuss the role and place of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) in the analyses of Inclusive Education (IE). The authors describe the understanding of AIKS and what IE means in the context of...
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This chapter explores the migration experiences of international higher education students from African countries in China, highlighting the need to consider more comprehensively specific cultural and historical contexts when researching middling migration in the Global South. It draws on research which explores the experiences and migration decision-making of a group of university students from across the African continent in China, to understand how changing patterns of global mobility are...
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The library holds a central place in learning institution and its main goal is provide resource for teaching, research, publishing, and innovation. This study sought to find out the effect of library user education on access and use of library services and resources. The study used a descriptive research design. The total target population was 640, comprising of 600 students, 30 lecturers and 10 librarians. Stratified sampling technique was used to categorize sample into student’s, lecturers...
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The government of Kenya introduced the implementation of a computer studies curriculum in 1996. However, descriptive statistics of various studies carried out have never established why only a few schools registering a low number of candidates offer computer studies at KCSE examinations and worst of all is the varied performance registered nationally and more so in Bungoma County. This study therefore purposed to evaluate the influence of teacher capacity on the implementation of computer...
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African Afrocentric epistemic systems have impacted upon the existence and practices of African communities throughout the ages. These epistemic systems have influenced the enactment of how Africans have lived in their communities and how they have sustained and used their resources. However, these epistemic systems encountered an existential problem in the promulgation of Eurocentric epistemic systems which marginalized the significance and centrality of Afrocentric epistemic systems in...
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This study examined the relationship between big five personality trait of openness to experience and teachers’ job productivity in senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. A correctional research design was adopted for this study, which was guided by one research question and one hypothesis. The population of the study comprised 274 principals and 38, 499 students in public senior secondary schools in Adamawa State. The sample size is 825. This sample size comprised of 55...
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Abstract Emerging discourses in the field of climate change adaptation finance contend that remittances could complement other sources of financing adaptation given their propensity to reach the most vulnerable in comparison to public expenditure. This notwithstanding, fewer empirical studies have examined this claim. Employing an Order Rank Logit (ORL) and multinomial logit structural decomposition models, this study found that remittances influenced smallholder farmers’ engagement in...
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Youth entrepreneurship is considered an important factor in economic growth, job creation, and poverty alleviation. Although youth entrepreneurship is considered a key to addressing unemployment, the youth unemployment rate remains worrisome in developing countries. This paper assessed the entrepreneurship training in universities as a means of reducing youth unemployment. Youth unemployment is an impediment to inclusive economic development, limits the earning potential and future prospects...
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The study focused on the usefulness of FinTan innovative pedagogy model in enhancing entrepreneurship skills among students in higher learning institutions in Tanzania. Guided by the Teaching Framework for Entrepreneurship Theory by Fayolle and Grailly (2006), The target population was three higher learning institutions, 120 lecturers, 700 students, and 9 team leaders who were beneficiaries of the FinTan innovative pedagogy model. A stratified random and purposive sampling technique were...
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This study aims to apply the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) established by Pintrich to determine the level of students' motivation and perception and expose them to a Moodle to test the successful use of Self-Regulated Learning on the Learning Management System Moodle Environment. Ninety-six undergraduates (48 in the experimental and 48 in the control group) took part in this quasi-experimental study. The instrument (MSLQ) was tested using Cronbach's Alpha with a...
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Understanding sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is crucial for preventing their spread, especially among secondary school students who, as adolescents, are more vulnerable to STIs. However, the lack of information on secondary students' knowledge of STIs hampers development of health education programmes for secondary schools. The objective of this study was to establish the students’ knowledge about STIs and HIV/AIDS, and their attitudes towards prevention of STIs. Data were collected...