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Using the interlocking concepts of power, knowledge and discourse, this article focuses on how counter normative sexualities are discursively constructed in the sexuality education classroom and with what effects. Drawing on in-depth interviews with teachers and classroom observation, the evidence highlights the presence of specific discourses about the teaching and learning of sexuality diversity. First, while many teachers argued for the inclusion of counter-normative sexualities, in their...

Language policy debates in South Africa concern only Black African language speaking children rather than White English and Afrikaans speaking children. These debates construct Black African children as learners with deficits and fail to acknowledge their language resources. At the same time, policy makers fail to critique the unjust system to which they are subjected and of which they are victims. In this paper, I present a brief case study of children belonging to the Stars of Today...

The objective of this study was to determine the role of benchmarking on employee performance in the public sector in Kenya. A sample of 24 respondents from SMC 99 and SMC 100 were selected using stratified random sampling method to respond to questionnaire items intended to gauge aspects of their performance based on training and development. Data obtained was analyzed descriptively using frequency, percentage, and mean analysis with the aid of statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)...

Utilization of electronic resources is a reading culture that benefits bachelor of education teacher trainees (BEDTTs) by directly exposing the learners to up-to-date and vast subject content in motivating multimedia presentations. The BEDTTs benefits from utilizing e-resources by retrieving information faster than print resources. The BEDTTs use the time saved to do more academic work. The study examined the relationship between information searching ability and utilization of e-resources...

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Aerobic capacity is a vital factor for soccer achievement. Disclose by professionals over VO2max of 60 ml/kg/min recommended as the minimum fitness condition for male soccer players to play at leading levels. Founded on the principle kinetics analyse, which confirms that among competitive soccer players, wing-backs and central midfielders cover long distances at high speed, then by defenders and attackers. Our objective is to test 180 well-trained male senior player, first division Algerian...

One of the key features of post-apartheid South Africa has been an ongoing debate around access to quality education. Educational policy experts have decried what they have often termed a “dysfunctional” schooling system that fails to prepare students adequately for independent thinking and future life prospects. Prominent amongst the circulating debates have been important, yet peripheral issues such as resources, curriculum change and general inequality, forgetting the very real and...

Urinary schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis) is a parasitic disease caused by digenic trematode called Schistosoma haematobium, it is a water based parasitic disease transmitted by water snails of the genus Bulinus that mainly affect children. A study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Urinary Schistosomiasis among School aged children of three selected communities in Bakura LGA of Zamfara State to determine the prevalence of S. haematobium from urine samples of the pupils and to...

The study assessed internet access and usage patterns as teaching and learning facilities among lecturers and students of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.Descriptive survey research design was used to collect data from a sample of 583 respondents, comprising 231 lecturers and 352 students.The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher.Test re-test method was used to determine the reliability coefficient of...

This article discusses the barriers to school continuation for pregnant girls and young mothers living in low-income and marginalized contexts in Nairobi, Kenya. In the article, I suggest adopting a girl-centered framework in the policy formulation process (Moletsane, Mitchell, & Lewin, 2015). This perspective puts girls’ voices at the center of the policy formulation process to help address the persistent gender inequality in education through problem identification and an exploration...

The significance of school-based assessment is being undermined by inadequacies inherent in the process. Stakeholders’ efforts and research attempts at improving the situation have not yielded desired results. It was on this premise, the researchers sought to predict school-based assessment practice of senior secondary teachers from their SBA knowledge and attitudes towards SBA in Ijebu Division of Ogun State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted. A sample of four hundred (n=400)...

The significance of school-based assessment is being undermined by inadequacies inherent in the process. Stakeholders’ efforts and research attempts at improving the situation have not yielded desired results. It was on this premise, the researchers sought to predict school-based assessment practice of senior secondary teachers from their SBA knowledge and attitudes towards SBA in Ijebu Division of Ogun State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted. A sample of four hundred (n=400)...

This study examined the influence of school administrators’ supervisory skills on teachers’ job performance via communication supervision skill, problem solving supervision skill and regular classroom supervision skill in government senior secondary schools in Enugu state. The study adopted ex-post facto research design. The population of the study comprised all the principals and teachers in SS2 classes in government secondary schools in Enugu state. The sample consisted of 320 respondents...

The ongoing 2015/16 student unrest (#RhodesMustFall; #FeesMustFall) has displayed heightened calls for the decolonising of the curriculum in the higher education (HE) sector. Students have highlighted in the recent protests that the curriculum remains largely Eurocentric and continues to reinforce white and Western dominance. In response to the need for a decolonised curriculum, higher education lecturers at a university in South Africa embarked on a Bachelor of Education honours writing...

The school system in South Africa has only in recent years begun to more deeply grapple with issues of power and privilege along a number of axes of oppression including race, gender, class and recently, sexual and gender diversity. As a result, learners who embody sexual and gender diversity experiences spaces of belonging and exclusion in school settings. As a result, this paper asks: What needs to be done in the school system to reconstruct the “African child” to include sexual and gender...

This paper interrogates the relationship between South Africa’s most important piece of educational policy, the South African Schools Act (SASA) (Republic of South Africa, 1996b), and learner identity. It seeks to understand how this central piece of South African educational legislation foreshadows, intersects with, foregrounds, prescribes and/or disturbs dominant notions of South African learner identity. What does the SASA say about the South African learner and particularly about what it...

This study aimed at identifying practical strategies to improve education in sub-Saharan Africa.Using written questionnaires, the data of this study were collected from three new Canadians who were born in sub-Saharan Africa and who now work in the Canadian educational system at primary and university level.The educational challenges we examined concern girls' enrollment in schools, the development of schools in rural areas, the ineffectiveness of teaching and, finally, parents' influence on...