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The Prevalence of visually defective students was investigated in Fasilo Junior Secondary School using the Snellen Letter Chart. Four hundred and seventy six pupilswere visually defective. This defect had a significant effect on their school performance. This was inferred to the country's educational problems and discussed .
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Using a standardized Arabic version of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale with Egyptian students (214 males and 214 females), five factors were extracted which corresponded to those reported for several cultures in Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Means for the Egyptian students of both sexes were significantly higher than those reported in Arab and western cultures Egyptian female students scored significantly higher than males. The first two factors were mostly comprised of items relating...
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The importance of health education as part of health enhancement programs is well accepted. The encounter with the Ethiopian Jews introduced a new set of problems, requiring a novel approach to old concepts. A project that was carried out during the last decade is presented. Three target populations were identified: the Ethiopian population with 851 participants, medical and community teams with 843 participants, and 138 Ethiopian instructors. An effort was made to make the interaction...
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We describe an educational intervention project that was designed to lower the risk of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus among the Ethiopian immigrants of the 1991 Operation Solomon. The importance and uniqueness of this program lies in its attempt to integrate into one program two different sets of traditions and concepts, in a culturally acceptable manner to the target population. On the one hand were the traditions of the Ethiopian community and its...
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There is a link between man's biological surroundings and traditions as part of his cultural heritage. Environmental education addresses all spheres of life. i.e. culture and man's surroundings. Some African traditions from which the environment can benefit, are discussed in this article. These traditions can be used as examples when dealing with environmental education.
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Nigeria has a population of 88.5 million. That makes Nigeria the most populous country in Africa and the 9th most populous in the world. Although most likely underreported, HIV is present in low, but significant levels in the general population and spreading rapidly primarily through heterosexual contact. A conservative estimate holds that up to 3.5 million urban adults could be infected by the year 2000. This disproportionate toll HIV/AIDS will wreak upon educated urbanites in a country...
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This article provides two samples of interdisciplinary courses in African studies drawing primarily from available African sources. Its main premise is that students and teachers of African studies could benefit from integrating materials from both the social sciences and humanities. Comparative and thematic, these courses are aimed at facilitating the enhancement of the course offerings in liberal arts curriculum.
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The limited presence of talented African Americans in the teaching profession has been and continues to be a serious problem confronting the education profession and the African-American community in the United States. This review summarizes what is known from the research literature. It explores the reasons that African-American teachers are important as well as overall demographic, entry, and retention trends and the distinctive factors that influence the limited presence of...
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Through ophthalmological exams, structured interviews and participant observation, this study examines the experience of blindness in rural Egypt, and finds that villagers’ subjective assessments of their vision differ substantially from ophthalmic measurements of their vision. Individuals with profound visual loss remain independent in their daily activities and contribute to their families’ subsistence. While they may agree that they have “weak eyesight,” they do not perceive themselves to...
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The factor structure of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale for Filipino women did not match the pattern reported for Egyptian women.
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A health education program was developed to address the immediate needs of 20,000 Ethiopian immigrants to Israel in 1991. This modular program included: the use of health services, nutrition, prescription medication use, prevention of home accidents, first-aid and personal hygiene. Using an anthropological orientation, the program attempted to bridge the cultural gap regarding the health promotion skills of this population that had moved from a developing country to a new, Western society in...
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To understand 1950s African-American history, we must understand the three generations who lived, struggled and died between the 1860s and the 1950s.
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This note presents results from simulations made with a high resolution (2.5 ~ latitude by 3.75 ° longitude) version of the Meteorological Office climate model coupled to a mixed layer ocean. Other results [1, 2] and a fuller description of the model performance [2] are presented elsewhere. Some area average results from a G F D L model (Geophysical Fluids Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, U.S.A. used by Manabe, Wetherald and co-workers personal communication) are included here and further...