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In South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the promise of peer education as a means of promoting sexual health has contributed to its increasing popularity. While structural and organisational constraints can compromise the success of peer education, many of those involved in modest local programmes in South Africa are able to address the sexual health and well-being of young people through knowing about and making the most of proximal salutogenic factors—personal qualities and local...
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This chapter contributes to an examination of workforce education and development (WFED) systems in various countries around the world, based on a common conceptual framework (indexed at TD/TNC 82.65). The framework combines the input (political and environmental factors, human and social capital, and economic status) with the process (the public and private education and training system) to produce the output in terms of the labour force. The chapter provides an analysis of the current...
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This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school in rural Tanzania. By using the perspective of linguistic anthropology, literacy practices in fi ...
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree Of Master Of Education, Kenyatta University. 2004, LC 67.5.W4
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Rights are social conventions. Social actors appropriate and mould them to serve particular social purposes. One purpose which rights can serve is the buttressing of politically motivated claims about the just distribution of resources. This article analyses the manner in which rights have been moulded to serve a range of political purposes in South Africa's recent education funding reform process. After a detailed analysis of South Africa's education funding regime, the article argues that...
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Iron-deficiency anemia and infection are deterrents to optimal child health in many developing countries. We investigated the prevalence of anemia and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), which reflects chronic background infection, recent illness, and diet for 190 children aged 10 to 13 years in 1995 in a Nile Delta village. The children exhibited a high prevalence of anemia (61.6%) and elevated ESR (54.9%). One-third of the children reported a minor illness within the past week,...
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The reliability and validity of scores on the Big Five Inventory (BFI; O. P. John, E. M. Donahue, & R. L. Kentle, 1991) were examined in a sample of 336 African American college students. Results indicated moderate reliability and structural validity for BFI scores. Additionally, BFI subscales had few meaningful correlations with self‐esteem and social desirability. La fiabilidad y la validez de los resultados del Inventario “Big Five” (BFI; O. P. John, E. M. Donahue, y R. L. Kentle,...
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This paper is a part of a study conducted in Toronto, Canada. The major purpose of the study was to explore the social, emotional and educational experiences of children of new Ethiopian immigrant parents in their homes and in Canadian early childhood education settings. The experiences of six children were examined through qualitative research method by using observations and interviews. One of the results of the study showed that the children of the newly immigrated Ethiopian parents...
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Extracted from text ... 1 Announcement Aankondiging Introducing a distance learning school for legal practice (Unisa's College of Law and the Law Society of South Africa) Jeannie van Wyk Coordinator: Distance Learning School for Legal Practice College of Law, Unisa Nic Swart Director: Legal Education and Development, Law Society of South Africa 1 Joint venture between Unisa's College of Law and the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) The College of Law of the University of South Africa...