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This article aims to explore the initial literacy and epistemic benefits of translanguaging as a pedagogic practice in multilingual Namibia. Using notions of recontextualization and translanguaging and classroom observation and data from documents, the article shows how pre-primary teachers and learners draw on heteroglossic repertoires for literacy development and epistemic access. It is argued that this reframes the classroom, not as a site of monolingual epistemic violence, but as a...
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Despite high mobile technologies penetration in South Africa, mobile payment services have been adopted by relatively few users. This study intended to explore the resistance to innovation through examining the reasons for slow adoption of mobile payment services among consumers and how motivation influences the adoption process. Absence of relative advantage, absence of compatibility, complexity, perceived risk and absence of self-efficacy have been employed as factors influencing...
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Abstract The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of incidents of mass possession among schoolgirls in Niger. Possession by revengeful spirits dramatizes the controversies surrounding women's education. During exorcism, possessing spirits speak of the homes they lost when trees were cut to build schools. Spirits were part of a sacred topography disrupted by the transformation of bushland into farmland, the shift toward individual property, and urban expansion. This essay centers on...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) African regional training course for mid-level managers (MLM) of immunization programs launched in 2004, has undergone revisions across the years, to accommodate new developments in the field.In 2016, the WHO African regional office conducted a thorough review of the course materials and delivery methods to document lessons to help improve the course.Some of the gaps included inappropriate selection of trainees, inadequate focus on skills development,...
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Gender-based violence is pervasive in schools around the world, yet it has been, and continues to be, one of the most silenced educational problems. Recent studies have brought to light the alarming scope and consequences of gender-based violence in education. Comprehensive sexuality education is one globally promoted policy to address gender-based violence in education that has received growing attention. By presenting young people with factual information about their sexual health,...
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Due to high failure rates many students end up spending unnecessary years struggling to qualify and subsequently accumulate unnecessary debt.In this paper, our principal contribution is to provide an expert system that statistically predicts the success of a first year student in an undergraduate Science programme given only academic merit in their subject matter.Over the past decades, much work has been done in the field of predicting student success in first year computer science and in...
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Abstract This chapter addresses the historical trajectories of education and development in the twentieth century (post)colonial Africa, framing the main goals of this collective book. It discusses the three key phases during which the economic and social goals of education were profoundly reconfigured. The first phase, spanning the period between 1900 and 1930, coincided with the introduction of the first “native” educational systems in the wake of the “scramble for Africa.” Debates on...
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The paper assesses local adaptive capacity of rural households in three drought-prone districts of rural Sidama using Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance’s (ACCRA) Local Adaptive Capacity Framework (LACF). Randomly selected401 households were approached to collect relevant data on the state of local adaptive capacity. Additional qualitative data were gathered from key informant interviews and focus group discussions so as to substantiate the findings from HHs data. Gridded satellite...
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The free senior high school policy is one of best social and economic intervention policies that openly affect both parents and their wards in senior high school. This realization is reached on the backdrop of the policy’s role in redeeming parents from their economic and financial burden. This study therefore looks at the effect of introducing the free senior high school policy on the economic and social lives of parents and students respectively. A correlational cross-sectional descriptive...
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Financial literacy education is one of lifelong assets that every individual needs to function and fit well in modern-day society. It provides the financially savvy better decision making, best investment alternatives and family wellbeing. Unfortunately, consumers appear less active and less confident in participating meaningfully in the financial sector due to lack of knowledge about the complex nature of financial products and services and the risk that goes with them. This study looked at...