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This document the 11th chapter in a book on women and education in sub-Saharan Africa presents a 1991 case study of a South African agricultural smallholding near Johannesburg to reveal relationships between new post-apartheid laws and living working and educational conditions as well as some of the underlying causes of rural exploitation and oppression that put women and girls in an especially disadvantaged situation. The discussion begins with a review of theory on individual and...
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Sixteen simulation studies of dual-resource constrained (DRC) systems were reviewed to determine what has been learned about the use of cross-trained, flexible workforces. Propositions were proposed dealing with worker flexibility, centralization of control, worker assignment rules, queue discipline, costs of transferring workers, and other selective findings. Future directions for DRC research were proposed in three areas of interest to managers in high technology firms. First, the...
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This paper is aimed at eliciting teacher views on teaching, their sources of motivation and the conceptual frames out of which they conduct their work. While the research contexts differed in rural South Africa and in The Gambia, common questions arose about ownership, participation and the divide between `experts' and `practitioners'. A `missing discourse' emerged on the process of making meaning from the curriculum and teaching it. Teachers failed to contest the ground of their teaching,...
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This paper is aimed at eliciting teacher views on teaching, their sources of motivation and the conceptual frames out of which they conduct their work. While the research contexts differed in rural South Africa and in The Gambia, common questions arose about ownership, participation and the divide between `experts' and `practitioners'. A `missing discourse' emerged on the process of making meaning from the curriculum and teaching it. Teachers failed to contest the ground of their teaching,...
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This paper is aimed at eliciting teacher views on teaching, their sources of motivation and the conceptual frames out of which they conduct their work. While the research contexts differed in rural South Africa and in The Gambia, common questions arose about ownership, participation and the divide between `experts' and `practitioners'. A `missing discourse' emerged on the process of making meaning from the curriculum and teaching it. Teachers failed to contest the ground of their teaching,...
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This paper is aimed at eliciting teacher views on teaching, their sources of motivation and the conceptual frames out of which they conduct their work. While the research contexts differed in rural South Africa and in The Gambia, common questions arose about ownership, participation and the divide between `experts' and `practitioners'. A `missing discourse' emerged on the process of making meaning from the curriculum and teaching it. Teachers failed to contest the ground of their teaching,...
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This article presents a review of several common emotional and developmental challenges faced by African American female college students who attend predominantly White colleges and universities. The authors suggest that these challenges can be addressed through programs that promote these students' psychological growth and maturity. A cognitive-developmental intervention strategy, base primarily on Loevinger's theory of ego development, is outlined.
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Rainfall erosivity factors were measured during 1980 and 1981 at Ibadan, Nigeria for two rainy seasons, Season 1 from late March to late July and Season 2 from late August to early November. Rainfall characteristics monitored included drop size distribution, kinetic energy, and momentum using a DISTROMET. Additional factors/characteristics monitored were rainfall amount and intensity using a daily recording rain gauge, and sand splash using an Ellison Cup technique. Rainstorms received in...
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South Africa has inherited a fragmented system of science education which fails to provide adequate access to the majority of the population and poorly serves those whom it does educate. Less than 0.5% of South African students achieve university entrance qualifications in science and mathematics. Post-apartheid policies have focused on increasing investment in science education through educating more science teachers, providing more access to students to study science at schools, and...
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South Africa has inherited a fragmented system of science education which fails to provide adequate access to the majority of the population and poorly serves those whom it does educate. Less than 0.5% of South African students achieve university entrance qualifications in science and mathematics. Post-apartheid policies have focused on increasing investment in science education through educating more science teachers, providing more access to students to study science at schools, and...
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In this analysis of workers’ education in Nigeria, set against the broad definitions of the broad meaning of workers’ education, education as against training, and other fundamental issues, an important point should be noted. It is that the ‘worker’ in Nigeria is defined by law. This definition excludes, for example, those who are not on a monthly or annual wage. Thus those unskilled people hired on a temporary basis are not, legally, ‘workers’.
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Abstract : This thesis addresses the recruitment of African-American high school students for Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) programs, with an emphasis on programs located at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The study seeks to determine if the current recruitment process is adequate to meet the needs of the Secretary of the Navy's Enhanced Opportunities for Minorities Initiative. This initiative is a recruiting strategy designed to increase the number of...
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This study explores the effects of teacher, family, and church support on the school-related attitudes, behaviors, and academic achievements of African American urban adolescents. To achieve this objective, 827 students in an urban school district in the Southeastern United States were surveyed. Interviews were conducted with a subset of the research population to enhance and aid in the interpretation of the questionnaire data. The analyses show that students' perceptions of teacher and...