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Higher education in South Africa is faced with an important challenge, how it will cope with the tension between the universal claims of global science on the one hand, and on the other the equally compelling claims to recover the African past (Scott 1997:18). In this article I explore how this challenge might be taken up, by arguing that Western knowledge systems and Indigenous knowledge systems can work together if the representational aspect of knowledge is de-emphasised and the...
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Spring Meeting of the ISA Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, 11 april 2002
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This paper reports a small-scale investigation into the classroom practice and the philosophy of science (PoS) of thirty three A-level biology teachers in Harare, Zimbabwe. Data was collected through a survey questionnaire and structured classroom observations in biology theory and practical lessons. Analysis of the biology teachers' responses to the PoS items gave 5 different teacher clusters. Patterns in the data show the differences in clusters' PoS were associated with aspects of the...
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Rwanda's recent history was marred by genocide in 1994, in which at least ten percent of the population lost their lives. Rebuilding the stock of human capital is an important part of the rehabilitation process, where the government has made efforts to broaden access to education, and enhance the quality of services. On the international stage, the education sector has also come into the limelight, specifically under the 2000 United Nations Millennium Declaration, and, the foregoing context...
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The process of development of an international research network supporting health promoting schools development between South Africa and Sweden. Paper vid konferens (WHO/EU) Health Promoting Schools Egmond aan See, Holland. September 2002.
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This study examined how the experiences of African-American and white students in a partial French immersion second grade classroom in Louisiana differed from the experiences of students in a regular education classroom. It focused on students' perceptions of themselves and others, students' interactions with their teacher and peers, parental support of students' educational experiences, and teacher interactions with students. Using field observations, interviews, and questionnaires, this...
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As a result of widespread and increasing concern about the quality of leadership and management of public higher education institutions (HEIs), at the beginning of 2001 the Council on Higher Education (CHE) established a task team on governance of HEIs. The task team had three main objectives: to describe and analyse the state of governance at HEIs with special focus on the role of councils, senates, institutional forums and executive management and the relationship between these four...
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High death rates are reported in health care workers (HCWs) and teachers in urban areas of Malawi. The present study was carried out to determine the annual death rate in HCWs and primary school teachers working in semi-urban and rural areas of Malawi, and to try to ascertain the main causes of death. Forty district and mission hospitals in Malawi were visited. A record was made of the number of clinical and nursing-based HCWs in each hospital in 1999, the number of deaths in that calendar...
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It is an to write a foreword for the Bibliotek I Samehalle's book on the Library Practice for Young Learners project (LPYL) and also a challenge. The honour is due to the significance of the LPYL project, which is a project rooted in our past and present realities but which reaches out to future possibilities. I believe that it thus has a real chance of making a difference to South African education. The vision of the original partners, the Library & information Workers Organisation (LIWO),...
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An international association advancing the multidisciplinary study of informing systems. Founded in 1998, the Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a global community of academics shaping the future of informing science.
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At the University of Cape Town, females and students disadvantaged under the previous South African apartheid education system are under-represented in Information Systems (I.S.) classes. This research shows that these are also the groups most ignorant about I.S. at the school-leaving stage. After being informed about the discipline through a small intervention, a significant increase in enthusiasm for majoring in and being employed in I.S. occurred. This should result in a better...