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This article describes four unexpected and spontaneous themes emerging from qualitative research based on the International Classification of Disability Functioning and Health, which took place in Sierra Leone, West Africa: the desire to live in a community of people with disabilities; the desire to be recognized as equal citizens and be given equal opportunities; the desire to become economically independent; and a high expectation of assistance. This article discuses the impact of these...
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Previous articleNext article No AccessAfrican Education, Culture, and Modernity Unwound Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age edited by Brad Weiss. Boston: Brill, 2004. 356 pp. $70.00 (paper). ISBN 90‐04‐13860‐9. Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Nationalism, Youth, and the Transformation of Knowledge by Cati Coe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 232 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). ISBN 0‐226‐11129‐6.Amy StambachAmy Stambach Search for...
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Previous international studies, in which the authors participated, have revealed that involvement of teachers in decision-making and responsibility-taking processes is crucial for their receptiveness towards implementation of current and future educational change. It is also evident that the role and responsibilities of school principals have changed significantly over the last decade or two. An indication was obtained of the views of South African secondary school principals regarding the...
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In this paper I will attempt to consider emotions in the context of three women’s lives, whose passion for education brought them together and then tore them apart along axes of difference defined by race, class and age in apartheid South Africa. I am looking in particular into the correspondence between Lily Moya, Mabel Palmer, and Sibusisiwe Makhanya, published in 1987 Marks, S. 1987. Not either an experimental doll: the separate worlds of three South African women, Pietermaritzburg:...
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This paper focuses on the experiences of the author in writing, implementing, and evaluating a course on communication and development. This new course is a central theoretical component in the revised curriculum of the Communication Arts department at Divine Word University, in Madang, Papua New Guinea. It is hoped that this paper may be of some value to others who intend to teach development theories to communication specialists in the developing world.
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In recognition of the severity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria, the Nigerian government has demonstrated commitment to combating the pandemic by implementing a subsidized antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program in 74 current centers across the country. While the program has been commendable, there are aspects of the programme that need to be explored before the programme can be said to be acheiving its aim of providing treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS at a subsidized cost....
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The objective of this study was to investigate the work engagement of academics in selected South African higher education institutions as well as the impact of job demands and job resources on their work engagement. Stratified random samples (N = 471) were drawn from academic staff in three higher education institutions in South Africa. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) and the Job Demands-Resources Scale (JDRS) were administered. The results confirmed a two-factor structure of work...
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Whether a particular education system is of high or low quality can be judged in terms of input, output and process. Until recently, however, much discussion of educational quality is centered on only system inputs in terms of the provision of teachers, teaching materials and other facilities, and on output in terms of students' achievement. However, due to financial constraints, the government has realized that improving the quality of education through improved input is more difficult....
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Title: FOSTERING RESILIENCE AMONG EARLY ADOLESCENTS EXPOSED TO COMMUNITY VIOLENCE: CHALLENGES, STRATEGIES, AND SUPPORT NEEDS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS IN PREDOMINANTLY AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN COMMUNITIES Elisabeth Fost Maring, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Sally A. Koblinsky, Department of Family Studies Community violence places youth at risk for adverse developmental consequences such as poor school achievement, aggression, and self-destructive behaviors. Although an...
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The motivation for this research is to devise a new Egyptian higher education scheme which is more efficient, sustainable, and minimizes opportunity costs, in contrast to the current system which is non-sustainable, generates social losses, carries large opportunity costs, and is not economically efficient for long run development. The economically efficient outcome in solving the education paradox in Egypt is for the education system to be left for market forces to dictate the efficient...
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A new species of harpacticoid copepods, Xylora calyptogenae spec. n., from Edison Seamount, a hydrothermally active submarine volcano in the New Ireland Fore-Arc system (Papua New Guinea) is described. The new species belongs to the Donsiellinae Lang, 1944, a highly specialised taxon, the members of which have previously been encountered only in association with decaying wood and/or wood-boring isopods. A closer relationship of the Donsiellinae with the Pseudotachidiidae Lang, 1936, can be...
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Summary Objective To rank health problems contributing most to the burden of disease in Zimbabwe using disability‐adjusted life years as the population health measure. Methods Epidemiological information was derived from multiple sources. Population size and total number of deaths by age and sex for the year 1997 were taken from a nationwide census. The cause of death pattern was determined based on data from the Vital Registration System, which was adjusted for under‐reporting of human...
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Constructivism and mathematics education in GhanaFletcher, J. - 2006 - Mathematics Connection, 5(1)
Mathematics is a subject found in every school Curriculum in almost every country. Here in Ghana, mathematics is a compulsory subject in both the basic education (i.e. primary and junior secondary) and senior secondary curricula. This paper argues that in spite of the desire of mathematics educators in Ghana to pursue a constructivist agenda with regard to the teaching and learning of mathematics, mathematics teachers at the basic and senior secondary levels continue to place undue emphasis...