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Abstract In this article, I shall explain why we began teaching Educational Drama and Theatre to undergraduates at the University of Cape Town, why I investigated the processes involved, and what questions this research has raised for me. The task of Theatre in Education performers is teased out in relation to what I have witnessed in TIE programmes, found in reports written by students and ideas proposed by theatre theorists. The four contextual frames through which John OToole considers...
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L'A. resume brievement les obstacles historiques et socioeconomiques qui entravent actuellement en Afrique du Sud le developpement de l'alphabetisation. Il reflechit ensuite aux solutions possibles qui permettraient de resoudre les problemes d'alphabetisation que rencontre la population noire defavorisee. Pour cela, il cherche a definir precisement le niveau d'alphabetisation des etudiants en secondaire
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Abstract Teacher training in early childhood education in Ghana, West Africa is more of a grassroots effort rather than a formal system that is fully supported financially by the Ministry of Education. Formal teacher‐training college or university‐based early childhood teacher training has yet to be realized for the thousands of teachers of children 3–5 years old in government or government‐supported primary schools. This work chronicles the past and present teacher‐training programs...
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Teachers of mathematics in Egyptian schools almost depend on traditional lectures and discussions in teaching the statistics units which concentrate often on either mere computational aspects or theoretical concepts and distributions. To change this situation, an experimental approach is suggested to be used in Egyptian schools as a useful base for teaching and learning the subject in these schools. Questions interspersed throughout the experiments intend to promote statistical thinking...
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This paper explores the roles of seasonal labor and liquidity constraints, learning, and social conformity factors in explaining the adoption of a high-yielding, low-external input rice production method in Madagascar, called the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). We present a simple, multi-period model of technology adoption, and then use a dynamic sample selection model to analyze the decisions to adopt, expand and disadopt this method. We find that seasonal liquidity constraints...
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Although rice accounts for approximately forty-four percent of land under cultivation and forty-six percent of caloric intake in Madagascar, most farmers cannot produce enough rice to feed their families. Total rice production increased little in the country during the 1990s, and yields were stagnant and well below world average yields. Because of the importance of rice for both family income and nutrition and because of the significant role upland rice cultivation plays in deforestation in...
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Although rice accounts for approximately forty-four percent of land under cultivation and forty-six percent of caloric intake in Madagascar, most farmers cannot produce enough rice to feed their families. Total rice production increased little in the country during the 1990s, and yields were stagnant and well below world average yields. Because of the importance of rice for both family income and nutrition and because of the significant role upland rice cultivation plays in deforestation in...
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<JATS1:p>Although many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have proclaimed it their goal to achieve free universal primary schooling to all children, few have come close to achieving it. The authors of this study describe the implementation of a major primary school reform in five countries (Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, and Uganda).</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>The authors of this volume describe the efforts made in the last decade of the 20th century to reform African education, the goal of which was...
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This paper presents the findings of research conducted on the provision of information services to distance learners by the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). The objective of the research was to discover how the Open University of Tanzania provides library and information services to its distance learners and the extent to which these services meet the needs of the learners. The study was done with a view to suggesting ways in which information provision at OUT could be improved. Data...
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This article reports a study that was carried out to explore the perceptions and images of an entrepreneur among teachers and students in Botswana Senior Secondary Schools. The investigative survey method with questionnaires was used to collect data. The results showed that students and teachers in Botswana have a bi-perceptual image of an entrepreneur the study also showed that teachers and students do not easily relate entrepreneurial studies with real life activities. The article proposes...
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A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Masters of Arts in Library and Information Science from the Department of Information Studies at the University of Zululand, 2002.
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