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Partnerships in Inclusive Education span a range of options, supports and activities including with special populations. An increasing prevalent population is learners with ASD. This chapter will address issues around partnerships in the identification of learners with ASD in the Zimbabwean education system, inclusive support options for them, their families and communities. Early identification of learners with ASD is crucial as it facilitates the process of early intervention such as...

The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought changes to teaching practices in Zimbabwean Universities. The ensuing rapid digitalization of learning has noticeable impacts on access to education for students with different abilities. The use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Google Classroom, Google Meet, Moodle among others creates a digital divide between students who are techsavvy and those who are technophobic. Furthermore, it appears that online learning is exclusive to...

Sorghum is an important food crop for people in drought-prone areas of the world. The production in Tanzania has been ≤1 t ha−1 for a decade. The study was conducted in Iramba, Ikungi, and Kongwa districts to identify factors influencing the sorghum production, adoption rate, and strategies to address drought in Tanzania. The study involved 240 respondents for individual interviews and focus group discussions. Thirty respondents participated in individual interviews while ten farmers...

The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the sustainability and energy performance of an educational building in Ifrane (Morocco), with the establishment of environmental certifications such as EA6 credit and MR3 credit of LEED v4. This evaluation is based on WELL v2 tool. The energy performance assessment is achieved by Design Builder software which allows creating the reference point building (building complying with ASHRAE 90.1 standards). The results show that energy...

Abstract Background The prevalence of stroke is increasing in Nigeria due to a lack of awareness of their predisposing factors. There is therefore a need for good knowledge and awareness of stroke risk factors in the general populations. Thus, this study assessed the level of awareness of stroke risk factors among non-teaching staff in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi Campus, Nigeria. Results Most of the participants were female, 89 (69%), and had a post-graduate degree, 84 (65.1%). A total...

Adaptation is a key component for fostering resilience amongst farmers as they are exposed to the challenges caused by climate change. However, the implementation of adaptation strategies is not equal or easy for most farming communities and are influenced by a diverse range of socio-economic constraints. In this context, the study intended to explore the factors constraining the implementation of climate change adaptation strategies amongst commercial and subsistence farmers of the Local...

The Archean-Proterozoic transition 2.5 billion years ago marks a major period of change in Earth’s history, including a switch to ‘modern-style’ plate tectonics, and the best-preserved rocks from this time occur in West Africa. In this study, the evolution of the 2.3–2.1 billion-year-old Houndé and Boromo rock assemblages, south-western Burkina Faso, are investigated to provide geological constraints for this important period. Methods employed include field studies, whole-rock geochemistry,...

Covid-19 has led to unparalleled school closures and bought about extraordinary and unique challenges to ensuring continuity of learning for children across countries.This paper focuses on the educational experiences of children with disabilities in Malawi.Using a telephone survey, 99 parents/carers were interviewed about the impact of school closure on them and their child with disabilities.Parents reported as being overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the educational experiences of their child...

The status of teaching and research on public administration in Africa countries, in many respects, remains a vestige of the colonial era and this is reflected in the epistemologies that underpin the design of the curricula and pedagogies adopted. They have been further shaped by the injunctions of neoliberalism and conditionalities of donor aid which promote normative northern models of public administration. Recognising this reality African scholars and others have, for some time,...

Since the year 2000, most parents have emigrated en masse due to a deepening socio-political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, leaving their school-going children in the country. This paper assesses the experiences and challenges faced by these Left-Behind Learners (LBL), and ascertain the challenges faced by teachers in meeting the needs of these learners through inclusive education. The study followed a qualitative research approach with data collected at two high schools in Harare using...

The South African Journal of Childhood Education (SAJCE) is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for the dissemination of research in childhood learning and development and the care and education of children from birth to 12 years. The journal is interdisciplinary in scope and seeks to stimulate the exchange of ideas in a variety of subjects, contexts, and issues in childhood education and child care.

Palestinian healthcare institutions face difficulties in providing effective service delivery, particularly in times of crisis. Problems arising from inadequate healthcare service delivery are traceable to issues such as spatial coverage, emergency response time, infrastructure, and manpower. In the Gaza Strip, specifically, there is inadequate spatial distribution and accessibility to healthcare facilities due to decades of conflicts. This study focuses on identifying hospital site...

Sub-Saharan Africa has been identified as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The objective of this study was to explore knowledge and perspectives on climate change and health-related issues, with a particular focus on non-communicable diseases, in the informal settlement (urban slum) of Mukuru in Nairobi, Kenya. Three focus group discussions and five in-depth interviews were conducted with total of 28 participants representing local community leaders, health care workers,...

Academic performance among learners has been pulled into much consideration in the worldwide field in this manner, requiring the execution of the essential procedures to help improve and keep up performance in auxiliary schools. Strategic leadership practices are fundamental in schools due to the changing climate, unpredictable, dubious, and vague. It stays to be one of the significant impacts on the academic performance of understudies in auxiliary schools. The examination tries to discover...

There is a burgeoning trend of smartphone ownership in Africa due to the low costs of Android smartphones and the global increase in social media usage. Building upon our previous work that introduced a smartphone-based coding course to secondary and tertiary students in Ghana via an in-person program and an online course, this work introduced Africans in 37 countries to our online smartphone-based course in 2019. Students in this 8-week course read lesson notes, submitted assignments,...

Temperature and precipitation are known to affect Vibrio cholerae outbreaks. Despite this, the impact of drought on outbreaks has been largely understudied. Africa is both drought and cholera prone and more research is needed in Africa to understand cholera dynamics in relation to drought.Here, we analyse a range of environmental and socioeconomic covariates and fit generalised linear models to publicly available national data, to test for associations with several indices of drought and...

In recent years, the rapidly increasing number of Syrian students started to be trained in public schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) raises various problems. Syrian students who are included in the same class as Turkish students without a specific preparation process both have difficulties themselves and causes various discipline problems to all stakeholders such as teachers, parents, administrators and especially Turkish students. In this study, the...


 
 
 There had been a discernible shift in climate affecting the Sahelian zone of northern Nigeria. This attribute of drought influenced the rate of gum Arabic production in the North eastern axis. Therefore, these called for the studied of the Influence of drought on Acacia senegal (L.) Willd. Gum yield within a Soil moisture gradient in north eastern Nigeria. Two studied areas were purposively selected based on the availability (Gujba and Nguru). Complete Randomised Design...

Background: The first few days of in-patient care are possibly the most significant in a patient’s recovery and any omitted medications during this period may harm the patient or increase their hospital length of stay. Therefore, our study aimed at assessing the frequency of medication administration omission errors and their reasons for the omission in the paediatric wards after admission at University Teaching Children’s Hospital.Methods: This was a descriptive study in which 259 patient...

The aim of this paper is to overview the concepts and global trends of quality assurance in medical educationthrough accreditation systems based on internationally embraced standards, the efforts to have an oversightprocess of quality at global level while maintaining a frm commitment to the position that accreditation is anational matter requiring adaptation of the generic global standards to the national context. It also providesan update on international registries of medical schoolsIt...