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In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools, this effort has created an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed as they are taught in school classrooms. The state...
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This paper explores the presence of African American Vernacular English patterns in the reading of one child over a 20-week period. In this paper, I present insights from linguists about African American Vernacular English, list linguistic patterns characteristic of African American Vernacular English speakers, examine the relationship between the African American Vernacular English and learning to read, and examine the particular demands of book language. A case study of an African American...
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This survey is based on data which I collected through colleagues at various theological institutions in the Southern African region. These institutions count amongst the most prominent theological institutions in the region. The data therefore provides a fairly reliable picture of how Systematic Theology is being taught at an undergraduate level at universities in the region.
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The authors examined the cultural adjustment experiences of 12 Kenyan, Nigerian, and Ghanaian international college students through semistructured interviews. Using consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, & E. N. Williams, 1997), 7 primary domains or themes related to these students' cultural adjustment experiences were identified, including (a) presojourn perceptions of the United States, (b) postsojourn perceptions of the United States, (c) cultural...
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In a recent issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, we argued for increased civic engagement through the implementation of service-learning in technical communication courses and curricula (Sapp and Crabtree). In addition to the applied theory and experiential learning opportunities servicelearning creates, this pedagogical approach also provides students with an education in engaged citizenship. In that article, we introduced our commitTechnical Communication, Participatory Action...
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This book provides a reflective and historically situated analysis of the Kenyan Primary School Management Project (PRISM). This is carried out in the light of a broader international review of the theoretical and methodological literature relating to the role, and potential, of research and evaluation in the process of educational development. The case study of PRISM pays particular attention to the part played by collaborative and participatory research and evaluation in project...
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Objective: Perinatal mortality rate remains of fundamental inference for identifying problems pertaining to obstetrical and early neonatal treatment. Unit we know how to prevent congenital malformations, obstetrical accidents (abruptio -placentae) and very premature deliveries, we must accept an irreducible minimum perinatal mortality rate. The perinatal mortality rate is a sensitive index of the adequacy and the type of the obstetrical care during pregnancy, labour and neonatal care early...
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In the current study, background data (sex, age, and SES) and classroom factors were examined as predictors of scholastic achievement and child cognitive and behavioural outcomes in a group of rural Kenyan schoolchildren during their first year of formal schooling. Previous research in this area has provided mixed results regarding the characteristics of children and school environments that best predict optimal outcomes for children. This study extended previous research through the use of...
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Commentaar op Walid El Ansari and Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff, Nutritional Correlates of Perceived Stress among University Students in Egypt, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10.3390/ijerph121114164, 12, 11, (14164-14176), (2015).
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Globalization has exerted so much pressure on every aspect of the global economy. This pressure is fast affecting the economy of most underdeveloped and developing world. The precipitation of the World Trade Organization principles, which compelled participating nations to open up their boarders to foreign goods and services, has finally compelled indigenous culture and economy to untold competition and imminent collapse. This paper considers the inherent and apparent effects of...