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ABSTRACT This study investigated four Zimbabwean female school principals’ comprehension of their roles, functions and responsibilities as educational leaders. It explored how the social status of women influences and shapes their leadership roles as practicing female principals. This study contributes to the sparse academic literature on female leadership with a focus on the critical tension between conventional practices in which women on the one hand, are treated as minors while at the...
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Scholars, educators, and reformers continue to debate the merit of school-choice reform. In this article, the author marshals in-depth interview data from low-income and working-class African American mothers to describe how they engage in the educational marketplace and construct their school choices. The mothers' data shed light on the potential of charter schools and school vouchers to offer parents equal educational opportunity. Their stories show that their positionality-race, class,...
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African American participation in American society seems endemically fraught with devastatingly disproportionate difficulties ranging from critically high incarceration rates to tragic, often-violent, and high mortality rates. Further, school systems across the country consistently report glaring and alarming academic achievement gaps between African American children and their peers. Many researchers argue that effectively educating African Americans would ameliorate many of these...
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Introduction Library education in Nigeria has come a long way. Since the first library school in 1960 at the University College, Ibadan, several changes have been witnessed in the society at large and in the library profession in particular. The end of the 1980s saw the establishment of several other library schools in Nigeria awarding qualifications up to the Ph.D. level. However, at the dawn of the 1990s, new trends and developments worldwide pose great challenges for library education in...
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Introduction All educated Negroes suffer from a kind of in many ways far more subversive of the real welfare of the race than the ancient physical fetters. The of the is far more destructive than that of the body. But such is the weakness and imperfection of human nature that many of those who bravely fought to remove the shackles from the body of the Negro transfer them to his mind. Edward Wilmot Blyden (Carruthers, 1999, p. 253) In 1872 Edward Wilmot Blyden commented upon the paradox of...
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The development of a little-known library education program during the pre-Brown v. Board and pre-civil rights era is explored in detail. Scarcely noted in the literature, the program was hosted on four historically Black colleges and university (HBCU) campuses and is credited with training more than 200 African American teacher-librarians from 16 southern states during the Jim Crow period. Provided is an account of significant historical precursors, including the first-ever accreditation of...
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One essential key to economic, personal, and social success, for African American, is to pursue formal education. Concomitantly, the struggles of African-Americans to achieve educational excellence, equality, and equity are critically linked to the instruction experienced in the classroom. African-American children, who are among the schools' majority of minorities in this 21st century, have experienced detrimental affects due to the lack of equity in the classroom. These children need...
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This work presents a novel load frequency control design approach for a two-area power system that relies on unsupervised and supervised learning neural network structure. Central to this approach is the prediction of the load disturbance of each area at every minute interval that is uniquely assigned to a cluster via unsupervised learning process. The controller feedback gains corresponding to each cluster center are determined using modal control technique. Thereafter, supervised learning...
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US and Africa have been involved in collaborations leading to technology transfer from US to Africa in addressing some of the economic problems of the continent. The US-African power research and education exchange is born out of efforts put forward by both US and African power engineering academia and industry. It was initiated with funding in 1992 from National Science Foundation to implement the first international conference on power system operation and planning workshop in Lagos,...
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South Africa\'s higher education system is struggling to become a socially relevant ivory tower: that is, a university system that pays close attention to its calling of research while staying linked to the existential and political struggles of the people, the primary stakeholders in the system. Africa Insight Vol.34(2/3) 2004: 65-72
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Whilst inequalities in access to education and in educational resources in South Africa have declined, economists have noted continuing inequality in education outcomes, and particularly inequality in the quality of outcomes. Africa Insight Vol.34(2/3) 2004: 73-81
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This article explores the narrative accounts of eight South African high-school teachers working in a gang-violent community in the Western Cape. In April 2002, eight interviews were conducted with eight teachers and transcripts were analysed using the life-story approach. The analysis revealed that the primary stress being experienced by teachers is related to the wider social and political contexts of gang violence in South Africa. In addition, two types of life stories were identified. In...
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has preserved an oral tradition of theological education. Students undergo a long and arduous course of study located in the churches and monasteries of Ethiopia and using oral methods. The syllabus includes hymnody, music, poetry and dance as well as more formal theological interpretation. It is practised alongside other more modern forms of education, and prepares students for a career in the church. It shows no sign of dying out and provides an approach to...