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SUMMARY This paper focuses on the school as a setting for community-based prevention of factors that place learners at risk such as poverty, violence, substance abuse, learning difficulties and HIV/AIDS. It examines the development of school-based structures aimed at addressing these issues. The health promoting and inclusive schools approaches are explored as strategies to address these and other barriers to learning. Reference is made to innovative practice at a school in a disadvantaged...
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As one part of an international survey by the Multilingual Affairs Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, this study attempted to determine how South African speech-language therapists provide language intervention for multilingual language impaired children. By using a qualitative descriptive survey method, various aspects of this intervention were investigated. Twenty-five questionnaires were completed by speech-language therapists throughout the country....
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Cross cultural engagement: teaching African music to Australian studentsJoseph, D. - 2003 - 142–147
This paper reports on research that examined the effectiveness of introducing rhythmic concepts through an unfamiliar musical genre to Australian generalist prim my teacher education students. The genre selected was African music, in particular action songs, dance and instrumental improvisation. The methodologies of Orff, Kodaly and Dalcroze were taught through the repertoire of African music in order to foster a closer relationship between pedagogical theory and practice and to teach rhythm...
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This article reports on students' reflections, gathered from questionnaire and interview data, on their learning of rhythm and on their attitudes and motivation from having engaged with African music as non-music specialists using the Orff approach. The Orff approach to classroom music was supplemented with African repertoire which builds on the nexus, identified by Amoaku (1 982), between the Orff method and the traditional way of music learning in African cultures. This article describes...
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As South Africa enters the new millennium and is currently in its second term of democracy, the question remains: is outcomes-based education preliminary the way forward for learners in South The new education system recognises the importance of arts education and specifically music education at the primary school level. This article focuses on music education at independent schools in Gauteng, South The reporting of this article is based on the author's doctoral thesis entitled...
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The paper draws on the academic literacies approach to student writing and investigates academic writing, in English, by speakers of African languages at the University of Natal, Durban. Given that education can be considered to involve the formation of consciousness and identity, we ask to what extent these speakers of other primary languages feel able to participate fully in this and to claim ownership of the knowledge construction required in tertiary education. To answer this question we...
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This paper discusses how the Swazi Government and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Swaziland have responded to HIV/AIDS between 1986 and 2002. The central strategy has been to use education in various forms in order to change the behaviour of Swazi citizens and non-Swazi residents in the country. This involved adoption of a policy and structures which were informed by research and a variety of field experiences. Through the use of IEC, peer education and mass education, the Swazi...
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Four workshops were held in four sub counties in the districts of Soroti, Tororo, Iganga and Kamuli. Five to seven villages were involved in each sub county. Participatory approach was used to gather the farmers' perception on four environmental themes; Forests and woodlands, wetlands and water, land and soils and livestock and wildlife. The main issues that have caused changes in each theme were: deforestation; cultivation of wetlands and drying up of swamps; land degradation and low...