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Black Students in the Ivory Tower: African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990, by Wayne Glasker. Amherst and Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 238 pp. $34.95, hardcover. Reviewed by Wanda M. Brooks, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. As an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) during the late 1970s, Wayne Glasker found himself in the midst of a growing Black student population who actively...
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This article focuses on the lives and problems a group of young Ghanaian women faced as pupils pursuing a diploma course in Secondary Home Science. Relying on autobiographies, archival sources and interviews, the achievements of these women are contextualized in the social and political uncertainties of early post-colonial Ghana as well as the personal sacrifices made in the pursuit of education. Diploma qualifications positioned these women to achieve a measure of independence through the...
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This work covers the critical problem of high school dropouts and failure in the Ghanaian educational setting. In the first instance, a large proportion of studies have tended to concentrate on the higher classes and end-of –cycle testing. They can be seen as post-mortem analyses, which only indicate the irrevocable catastrophe but do not lead to prevention. Therefore this dissertation sought to identify the variance among the learning pre-requisites that Ghanaian class one children enter...
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In May 1991, fifteen thousand Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel in an overnight airlift and sorted in a haphazard and essentially random fashion to absorption centers across the country. This quasi-random assignment produced a natural experiment whereby the initial schooling environment of Ethiopian children can be considered exogenous to their family background and parental decisions. We examine the extent to which the initial elementary school environment affected the high school...
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A survey of the upper Manyame River catchment, middle Zambezi system, Zimbabwe, yielded a total of 22 fish species from 48 stations. The most widespread species (present at >20 stations) were Marcusenius macrolepidotus, Barbus paludinosus, Labeo cylindricus, Clarias gariepinus and Tilapia sparrmanii. The most numerous species (>10% of the total) were B. paludinosus, B. lineomaculatus and T. sparrmanii. A number of species that occurred, or formerly occurred, in the catchment were not...
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Since the introduction of the four-year undergraduate LLB degree in 1996, various factors, beside the need to implement curriculum reform in courses which existed previously as post-graduate courses, have demanded that legal educators review traditional approaches to their teaching.
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In this qualitative study, 88 African American undergraduates were interviewed to understand the role of African American student organizations in facilitating social integration at a predominantly White institution. The conditions under which participation in these organizations aided students' social integration are presented. Results largely support Tinto's (1993) theory of student departure but indicate limitations of the theory when applying it to African Americans from predominantly White home communities.
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In Sub Sahara Africa, where the process of economic growth is almost enigmatic, schooling is being considered, in most parts of the region, as a factor that may help resolve the mystery. This paper aims at examining the degree of growth effect of schooling in this region. Following the endogenous growth model developed by Lucas (1988) that considers human capital as one factor of production and schooling as means of human capital accumulation, two results of schooling are explicitly stated:...
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Twenty-six children from a private Catholic school in Pointe-Noire (Congo-Brazzaville) recount what happened to them and how they fled the Congolese civil wars. Despite trying to distance themselves from the tragedies they endured, they are still overwhelmed by emotions and shocked by the barbaric acts they witnessed. They were left destitute and vulnerable even though their families were better-off than the average. Having faced death and wanton actions, they have come to doubt reality and...
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The responses from 33 A level biology teachers to a questionnaire were analysed to test for association between attitude to the philosophy of science and academic qualification professional training. The teachers in Harare, Zimbabwe, also self-reported on their school contexts. From the school context data the teachers were clustered to give two different clusters - richer and poorer schools. Teachers in the poorer school context cluster showed statistically significant differences from...
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This study looks at the classroom practices and attitudes of a sample of A-level biology teachers in Harare, Zimbabwe. The analysis of the data shows that the teachers in what are termed 'richer' school contexts, as measured by teachers' self reports, have attitudes to the philosophy of science that are more relativist and more deductivist, but less process orientated and less de-contextualist, than their colleagues in 'poorer' school contexts. Teachers from the two school contexts organised...