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Abstract Action research is being introduced to Africa, where it has to adapt to very different professional contexts and to resource-constrained schools. The study reports how heads, qualified and untrained teachers in six Malawi schools responded to an action research intervention over a 6-month period. It concludes that most teachers found the process useful, but that much support is needed from the facilitators, particularly where basic resources, professional background training and a critical approach are lacking.
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To assess stress levels among first year medical students at the University of Zimbabwe.A cross sectional study using two questionnaires.Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, harare, Zimbabwe.First year medical students aged between 18 and 24 years who have spent about seven months in the medical school.A total of 109 out of 123 first year medical students were used in the study. The two questionnaires produced similar results with an average of...
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Preventive medicine requires an understanding not only of the disease to be prevented, but a complete understanding of conditions affecting the disease transmission, human nature, and the historic situation of the target group. An analysis of a new drug introduction (Atabrine) during World War II is viewed from multiple perspectives and is compared with the introduction of mefloquine during the mission to Somalia 50 years later. Common themes of educational failure at the end-user and...
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During the 1996-1997 academic year, students at the University of Ouagadougou went on strike for three months. This strike was the worst in Burkina Faso's history (or in the history of the former Upper The author, who was a visiting American professor at the time of the strike, details what happened at the university and in related incidents in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso. The author suggests that the strike may have resulted from the erosion of democratic rights within Burkinabe society,...
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"A Culture-Based Approach to Teaching African-American Public Address." The Speech Communication Teacher, 12(4), pp. 7–8
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In this comparative study of the sexual behaviour of 476 Nigerian female students in tertiary institutions comprising of 243 students of the medical discipline of study (MD group) and 233 students of the non-medical discipline of study (NMD group), the overall incidence of sexual intercourse was 56.7 percent. The mean age at first sexual experience was not significantly different at & = 0.05 among the two groups. However, sexual exposure was significantly more prevalent among students of the...
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Focus group discussions, key informant interviews and structured community interviews were used to describe the perceptions of caretakers of pre-school children in a predominantly rural district in Ghana. Over 75% considered ARI important in the community and there are a variety of local terms of describe various ARI illness entities. The perception of signs of severe ARI in children above two months of age was reasonably high; over 88% could mention at least one of two cardinal signs for...
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Data from the cancer register in the Department of Child Health, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Accra, Ghana was reviewed in order to document the pattern of malignancies seen in children. Out of a total of 15,200 admissions over a 40 month period there were 254 malignancies diagnosed constituting 1.67% of all admission. Lymphoma was the commonest tumour constituting 67% with Burkitt's Lymphoma being the commonest subtype. This was followed by Retinoblastoma (8.6%), Leukaemia (8.2%) and Wilms...
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This paper examines the likely causes for deteriorating enrollment rates in Africa. While a causal link is difficult to establish, several studies suggest that declining incomes and employment opportunities impact on household schooling decisions (i.e. household demand for education). The prevalent view that deterioration in school availability and quality are responsible fore declining school enrollments in many African countries seems incomplete. One consequence of this finding is that the...
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A total of 870 patients, both males and females, from 3 to 79 years old, received either albendazole or a placebo for the treatment of nematode and cestode infections. Each patient was interviewed and underwent a complete physical examination on the initial visit. In addition, complete blood count, clinical blood chemistry values and routine urinalysis were performed before and at least 24 hours after the last treatment. Stool examinations were performed before, 7 and 21 days after...
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This paper introduces some observed sociological and cultural aspects of students. It is usually assumed that these aspects are the same as the lecturer's own, but that is not necessarily so, here in Papua New Guinea. Assignments to encourage both the change of attitude and for the practice of the technical content of courses are described.