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Foreign Language AnnalsVolume 38, Issue 1 p. 153-153 Teachers of African-American Students SIG First published: 31 December 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2005.tb02478.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions...

The EPIC (Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator) crop model, developed by scientists of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has been successfully applied to the study of erosion, water pollution, crop growth and production in the US but is yet to be introduced for serious research purposes in other countries or regions. This paper reports on the applicability of the EPIC 8120 crop model for the assessment of the potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on...

This article examines coping strategies used by students in high-density living. It uses the questionnaire survey method in 20 university halls-of-residence in southwestern Nigeria. The study focused on students’ cognitive responses to the bedroom, the coping strategies that they used, gender differences in coping styles, and the influence of their length of stay. The results showed that the respondents perceived living conditions as stressful and that they used nine coping strategies to...

There is recognition in Morocco that the country's agricultural support policy of the past, when rainfall was adequate, has become counter-productive now that droughts are more frequent. How to align policy with the new climatic reality is currently being discussed, and different research needs to assess alternative policy options for the future have been identified. One, which we address in this article, is to take a retrospective view of the respective contributions of agricultural policy...

Against the backdrop of training provision in the apartheid era and a description of the promulgation of a new skills development regime post‐1994, this article considers the status and distribution of enterprise training in contemporary South Africa. It is found that reasonable progress is being made with training in large and medium‐sized firms and that a significant turnaround is occurring at the intermediate level through the new learnership schemes. Less impressive is the participation...

Upon entering college, some African American students experience difficulty with literacy tasks requiring text analysis, active problem solving, and critical thinking. Many of these difficulties can be traced to the high school as the source. To understand some of the underlying causes for this situation, phenomenological interviews were conducted with eleven first-year African American college students to examine their high school preparation. The students' reflections offer three key...

Evaluations, tied to specific programmes, need to be complemented by research that is more sensitive to context at the classroom level. A comparative approach may be used as a platform to move into a two‐way conversation with the perspectives of practitioners in ‘developing’ countries and hence scrutinize internationally dominant notions of good teaching that are often assumed in applied research, such as evaluations. This paper draws on findings from a theoretically oriented study of...

Distance education has been in existence in Uganda since the 1960s, and it has grown steadily since that time. It is however a neglected area in terms of data collection and research. The courses that were running between 1960 and 1980s have scanty documentation. What can be traced include the upgrading course for teachers which upgraded 1000 teachers from vernacular teachers to grade 1 and grade II teachers. This was repeated with 789 more teachers. There is hardly any documentation on...

The research is an empirical examination of who the individuals were that influenced 207 African American respondents to pursue graduate social work education, and what enrollment decision factors (EDFs) led them to select a social work program. Statistically significant relationships between EDFs are also isolated. The purposive sample consisted of MSW graduates from three predominantly White universities in two southeastern states in the United States. Almost 80% were females, the mean age...

We used regional broadband seismograms to determine seismic moment tensors for the destructive May 21, 2003 Boumerdes (Algeria) M w = 7.0 earthquake and its larger aftershocks. Fully automatic inversions using near‐real time data provided solutions for seven M w ≥ 4.7 events within 90 minutes after event occurrence. After adding off‐line data, we manually obtained 30 solutions (M w ≥ 3.8) from May 2003 to January 2004. All have shallow source depths (6–21 km). The median P‐axis orientation...

The study sought to find out school counsellors’ perceptions of headmasters’ attitudes towards the guidance and counselling programme in Zimbabwe Secondary schools. Two hundred and six (N=206) school counsellors participated in the study. A questionnaire was developed to collect the data. The SPSS 7.5 version was used to analyze the data. A t-test for independent samples was used. The results revealed that headmasters were perceived as having negative attitudes towards the guidance and...

This study examined HIV knowledge perceived risk and sexual behavior of 370 undergraduate students in selected universities in southern Nigeria. MANOVA confirmed females to have significantly higher overall HIV knowledge than males ([p.bar] = .03). In addition more females than males reported significantly higher knowledge on the risk of HIV transmission through oral sex (p = .001). Females scored higher on the erroneous belief that antibiotics protect a person from HIV ([p.bar] = .008)....

The purpose of this article is to advance Derrick Bell’s (1992b) interest‐convergence principle as an analytical lens for understanding the complex role of race in the educational experiences of African‐American football student athletes. Currently, there is a scarcity of educational research that employs a critical theoretical perspective on race to address the education of African‐American students in general, and student athletes in particular. This article includes American law cases...

The present study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia among blood donors and to determine the possible risk of transmission of malaria parasite to recipients of blood in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State.Four hundred and forty-four subjects were selected randomly and EDTA added blood was collected for screening malaria parasites using Giemsa stain. The data were subjected to chi2 analysis.Prevalence of malaria was 30.2% among blood...