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The culture of learning has been severely eroded in many South African schools. This article analyzes the relationship between this erosion and the legacy of apartheid in terms of the double bind hypothesis. Adouble bind occurs when (interpersonal or cultural) injunctions demanding certain itemsof behavior are regularly accompanied by higher-order injunctions forbidding the patternsof behavior that must necessarily result from obeying those injunctions. The hypothesis proposes that people...
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The culture of learning has been severely eroded in many South African schools. This article analyzes the relationship between this erosion and the legacy of apartheid in terms of the double bind hypothesis. Adouble bind occurs when (interpersonal or cultural) injunctions demanding certain itemsof behavior are regularly accompanied by higher-order injunctions forbidding the patternsof behavior that must necessarily result from obeying those injunctions. The hypothesis proposes that people...
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This research study explores the perceptions and practice of teachers teaching through the medium of English as an additional language, in township schools in South Africa. Lessons of five 'excellent' teachers, teaching mathematics, accounting, science, business economics and history through the medium of English as an additional language (EAL) were videotaped. The teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of teaching through the medium of EAL and the video recordings provided the...
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This research study explores the perceptions and practice of teachers teaching through the medium of English as an additional language, in township schools in South Africa. Lessons of five 'excellent' teachers, teaching mathematics, accounting, science, business economics and history through the medium of English as an additional language (EAL) were videotaped. The teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of teaching through the medium of EAL and the video recordings provided the...
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This research study explores the perceptions and practice of teachers teaching through the medium of English as an additional language, in township schools in South Africa. Lessons of five 'excellent' teachers, teaching mathematics, accounting, science, business economics and history through the medium of English as an additional language (EAL) were videotaped. The teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of teaching through the medium of EAL and the video recordings provided the...
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This research study explores the perceptions and practice of teachers teaching through the medium of English as an additional language, in township schools in South Africa. Lessons of five 'excellent' teachers, teaching mathematics, accounting, science, business economics and history through the medium of English as an additional language (EAL) were videotaped. The teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of teaching through the medium of EAL and the video recordings provided the...
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The role of race in the lives of gifted African American students is an understudied phenomenon. The discourse in the literature regarding the influence of racial identity on academic achievement has been relatively narrow, often ignoring such important conceptual issues as the fact that racial identity is dynamic across situations; that race is not important to all African Americans; that the individual's assessment of what is African American is most important; and that racial identity...
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The westerly orientations for a large number of primary school classrooms in Constantine involved a serious environmental problem provoked by uncontrolled sunlight. Under such circumstances the schoolchildren had no choice than keep sitting under incident sunlight while performing their various school tasks. Evidence of the severity of discomfort experienced by those pupils was investigated using observational methods. The results allowed to reach substantial conclusions about the risks of sunlighting classrooms.
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Knoxville College Medical Department (KCMD) was, to all appearances, a missionary medical school established in 1895 by a small black Presbyterian college in the Tennessee mountains to train African-American physicians. In reality, it functioned as a proprietary medical school organized and operated by a group of local white physicians who were more interested in making money than in furthering the school's mission of educating black Christian physicians. KCMD limped along until 1900 when...
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Variations in support for affirmative action were assessed in a sample of 181 African American college students in Massachusetts. These students generally endorsed affirmative action, and endorsement varied positively as a function of the belief that one had personally benefited from affirmative action. Aspects of racial identity, indexed by the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity, also predicted variations in attitudes toward affirmative action, over and above background factors...
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South African Journal of EconomicsVolume 69, Issue 4 p. 752-766 MEASURING THE VALUE OF THE ARTS TO SOCIETY: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VALUE OF EXTERNALITIES FOR LOWER INCOME AND EDUCATION GROUPS IN SOUTH AFRICA J.D. Snowball, J.D. Snowball Junior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Rhodes University.Search for more papers by this authorG.G. Antrobus, G.G. Antrobus Professor respectively, Department of Economics, Rhodes University.Search for more papers by this author J.D. Snowball, J.D. Snowball...
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A total of 331 serum samples collected from medical students, student nurses, microbiology students, and patients presenting with Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (PUO) were tested for the presence of Hepatitis B surface Antigen (HbsAg). While only seven (14.0%) of 50 microbiology students (mean age 24.0 years) tested positive for HbsAg, six (6.7%) of 89 student nurses (mean age 21.6 years) and 13 (13.5%) of 95 medical students (mean age 24.3 years) in the clinical phase of their study were found...
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Abstract Three Nigerian primary school teachers were interviewed, then observed, all day, for 10 consecutive days of teaching. The purpose of this study was to use classroom observations and interview methodology to construct a snapshot of a few days in the life of three Nigerian primary school teachers. The snapshot outlined the primary school classroom experience and examined the teachers' perceptions of teaching and learning by using three focus questions: “What is learning?,” “What is...
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For more than half a century, archaeologists have focused their research on understanding the mechanisms underlying the making of human cultures. Thus, many have analyzed various aspects of culture hoping to identify not only how traditions are set and perpetuated, but also how innovations occur. As a result, research on material culture and style embraces other disciplines of study and integrates every aspect of society. Style, for example, is no longer reduced to a surface attribute that...
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This study is an assessment of observational learning commonly known as social learning theory of a group of 55 African American students who are participants in a mentoring program known as PROJECT 2000. From first through sixth grades male role models, who were largely African American, were in the classroom as teacher assistants. At the time of the study all student participants were in fifth grade. An interview was conducted featuring a short open-ended questionnaire. Students in PROJECT...