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Miss Wrong was a member of the Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies, which prepared the recent report on Mass Education. She is Secretary of the International Committee on Christian Literature for Africa and has also been working as Assistant in the African Section of the London Transcription Service, which provides scripts and discs for local Broadcasting Stations. This article is a reprint of an Address she made to members of the Society earlier in the year.
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THE discrepancy between technological advance and sbcial adaptation which is reflected in the crises and upheavals of the twentieth century is from many points of view the fundamental problem of our time. Although the economic and social problems of Africa may seem less urgent and menacing than those of Europe, this discordance and the social disequilibrium that accompanies it are, in fact, developing in an extreme form. The very fact that in Africa indigenous techniques and social...
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Journal Article THE KITCHENER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT KHARTOUM, SUDAN Get access E. N. CORBYN E. N. CORBYN FORMER GOVERNOR OF KHARTOUM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1944, Pages 66–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093392 Published: 01 April 1944
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Whenever the Government wants to receive new students to be trained as surveyors for the Government Service it is usual for the public to be informed by means of a Gazette Notice outlining the conditions of entry into the Survey School which is attached to the Land and Survey Department. Nowadays students are admitted through the Government Higher College at Yaba by means of the Entrance Examination of that college. It is one of the conditions that before a candidate applies to take this...
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Whenever the Government wants to receive new students to be trained as surveyors for the Government Service it is usual for the public to be informed by means of a Gazette Notice outlining the conditions of entry into the Survey School which is attached to the Land and Survey Department. Nowadays students are admitted through the Government Higher College at Yaba by means of the Entrance Examination of that college. It is one of the conditions that before a candidate applies to take this...
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The great volume of extrusive rocks which has accumulated during and since the Tertiary period is one of the most important geological features of East Africa, and one which various people have related to the formation of the Rift Valley System.
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PHYSICAL FITNESS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICABurns, D. M. - 1943 - Nature, 151(3842), 704–705
THE population of the Union of South Africa is slightly more than ten millions, of which about one fifth are of European stock. The others, comprising seven million aboriginal Bantus, a quarter of a million Asiatics (Indians and Chinese) and about a million 'coloureds' (that is, Eurafrieans and Eurasians) on the whole exist at a lower socio-economic level than the bulk of the white population. Nearly a fifth of the Europeans fall into the category of 'poor whites'- people who, from one cause...
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*Translated from (Annales de Physique du Globe de la France d'ôutre-Mer, No. 1, February, 1934, by Mrs. A. Zawodski.
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Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsOn Becoming a Kwoma: Teaching and Learning in a New Guinea Tribe. John M. Whiting Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 48, Number 6May, 1943 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/219279 Views: 1Total views on this...
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The West African “Bush” SchoolWatkins, M. H. - 1943 - American Journal of Sociology, 48(6), 666–675
Education, in its widest significance, is identical with the cultural process In the least elaborated societies the cultural heritage may be learned adequately by direct participation in daily life, while more complex social orders require specialized educational institutions. The "bush" school in West Africa is considered here as having the function of inculcation in a society which, in degree of complexity, is of intermediate type. Studied in its own cultural milieu, the "bush" school appears to be genuinely educative.
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(1943). The Agricultural Education of a Primitive Tribe: The West Suk of Kenya. The East African Agricultural Journal: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1-11.
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OceaniaVolume 13, Issue 3 p. 281-281 Article CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO “LANGUAGE STUDY FOR NEW GUINEA STUDENTS” A. Capell, A. CapellSearch for more papers by this author A. Capell, A. CapellSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1943 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1943.tb00386.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of...