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Abstract This chapter investigates further a topic introduced in the last: the school-books of Egypt. It identifies many connections and much common ground between the school literature of Egypt and Israel, despite the scanty amount of the former (because they were written on papyri). Specific examples of this are given from various conventional Egyptian instruction manuals, and from other assorted works, which appear to have been favourites in Egyptian schools. The various characteristics...

The psychosocial correlates of alcohol, cigarette and cannabis use were examined in a population of secondary school students in Ilorin, Nigeria, using a 117-items substance use questionnaire. Current alcohol use was found to be significantly associated with urban location of schools, self-reported study difficulty, self-reported poor mental health and having fathers who are highly skilled professionals. Current cigarette use was found to be positively correlated with rural location of...

This paper assesses the impact of husband's and wife's education and occupation on family size in Zimbabwe. Results from the 1988 Male Fertility Survey indicate that husband's education had a strong negative effect, and wife's education had a moderate negative effect on the number of children ever born. Contrary to the literature, wives who were not employed had significantly fewer children than those who work in agriculture, and fewer, but not significantly, than those in non-agricultural...

Summary This paper examines the effects of a child's place of birth, mother's education, region of residence and rural and urban residence on infant mortality in Nigeria between 1965 and 1979, using data from the 1981/82 Nigeria Fertility Survey. Infant mortality rates declined in all regions between 1965 and 1979. Children born in modern health facilities, irrespective of their mothers' place of residence, experienced significantly lower rates of infant mortality than those born elsewhere....

Family life education (FLE) is a process of imparting both factual knowledge about human development, sexual relationships, preparation for parenthood, pregnancy, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases and also values, attitudes and perceptions that will enhance health self-concepts and relationships. Although experts agree that the home is the best place to begin FLE, parents themselves are sometimes reluctant as discussion of these topics may be embarrassing or even taboo between...

This paper discusses various issues that have plagued library and information science education in Africa since the first programmes were established. A brief historical development of library education is provided, and an analysis of the issues presented. Unresolved issues such as professionalism, standards, research degrees and recruitment of students are discussed. For the future, it is noted that attention should be given to areas such as changes in the curricula, community service,...

The prevalence of some intestinal helminths in Port Harcourt, Nigeria was studied over five years period (1987-1991). A total of 7476 patients' stools were examined microscopically. Forty-six per cent was infested with either one or more of these helminths in descending order of prevalence: Ascaris lumbricoides, Hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and strongyloides stercoralis. There was sex and age variation in infection rates of the infected population. Forty-seven per cent of the patients were...

African Americans have greater colorectal cancer mortality rates, yet are less likely to participate in fecal occult blood testing (FOBT). Perceptions of cancer fatalism play a pivotal role in this lack of participation. Cancer fatalism is the belief that death is inevitable when cancer is present. However, predictors of cancer fatalism have not been consistently articulated. The Powe Fatalism Model guided this descriptive, correlational study which reports on the relationship between...

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Summary Drought shocks can have potentially large, but highly differentiated economy‐wide impacts, depending on the structure and resource endowments of an economy. Counter‐intuitively, drought shocks have the greatest economy‐wide impact in countries at intermediate rather than early stages of development. This has important policy implications for the appropriateness of various drought relief and mitigation measures in different economies. Resume L'impact de la secheresse sur les economies...

The view point of secondary school teachers on reproductive health, specifically, their attitude towards contraceptive practice among sexually active schoolgirls and general opinion on teenage pregnancy was examined. A sample survey of teachers was conducted in all the registered girls and mixed post primary schools in Port Harcourt. A substantial proportion of teachers were of the opinion that sexually active schoolgirls should not be encouraged to use contraceptives because they damage...

This study examined the generality to African-American college students of previous findings regarding the prevalence of students' procrastination and their reasons for procrastinating. The Procrastination Assessment Scale—Students of Solomon and Rothblum was administered to 184 African-American college students. This scale measures the frequency of procrastination on a variety of academic tasks as well as reasons for procrastinating on writing a term paper. A high number of subjects...

Abstract In the first study, a small sample of Black students in South Africa were found to have markedly higher scores than Whites on the Rosenbaum Self-Control Schedule (RSCS; Rosenbaum, 1980b). In a second study, in which acquiescence response set and social desirability were controlled, Black students (n = 100) again had markedly higher scores than Whites (n = 138). In the White group, the RSCS had sound psychometric properties, but for the Black group Cronbach's alpha was low and items...

(1994). LANGUAGE AND ETHNIC GROUP RELATIONS IN DE‐SEGREGATED SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 32-32.

This article examines aspects of an African-centered pedagogy defined here as a pedagogy in which children can come to critically understand their identities as people of African heritage in a North American society. The data are taken from an ethnographic study on Black women teachers' "liberatory" pedagogy for children of African descent. The author discusses three classroom interactions between teachers and students from African-Caribbean-Canadian backgrounds. Through these vignettes and...

This paper deals with aid and education in Botswana. Three research questions are posed: is Botswana favoured in terms of the aid it receives; are there features of Botswana that make it attractive to aid donors; and is Botswana a model to other developing countries in the way it uses aid? Data were obtained from published and other sources and from interviews with personnel working for aid agencies and Botswana working for the Government. The atypical nature of Botswana is considered: the...

This article is the fruit of teaching English for two years in a Moroccan secondary school in the 1980s, and of attending the Moroccan Association of Teachers of English (MATE) XIIth Annual Conference in December 1991, where one of the workshops raised the issue of ELT being used as a vehicle for cultural inperialism in Morocco. Several suggestions were made for ways to contain the perceived threat from ELT to the national culture. This article considers why such situations arise, and looks...

This study examines African‐American college students' expectations about counseling and compares these variables across two universities with different racial majorities.

This brief historical survey of music education in Ghana and Nigeria encompasses three periods—the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras. Its main aim is to search for explanations of an apparent dichotomy between African and Western musics in the curricula of schools in both countries. It shows that, during the pre-colonial and colonial eras, some missionaries, colonial administrators and teachers encouraged the use of indigenous musics in the formal, Western, education systems,...