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This study, which sought to determine the potential of an online community of practice among biology teachers in Botswana, has identified teacher level, school level and systemic influences as shaping the process and outcome of an online intervention into a teacher professional development programme run by the University of Botswana.
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In this paper we present as case study the village of Hassilabiad in the Moroccan oasis region and the activities of the Association Hassilabiad (AHT), particularly those addressed to the involvement of the women. The Moroccan oasis region is subjected to new environmental problems. The Government often delegates their solution to the local administrations that have not the resources to solve them. Therefore the role of the local associations is growing. The Association AHT is facing the...
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Not unlike elsewhere in the world, journalism studies in South Africa has gathered new impetus after decades of trying to find its niche within the university scholarly and the media industry environments. Since the South African turn to democracy in 1994, journalism and journalism education have experienced profound changes. Technologically, reporting has moved from a position where conventional printed media, radio and television dominated, to a landscape where the internet and satellite...
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Not unlike elsewhere in the world, journalism studies in South Africa has gathered new impetus after decades of trying to find its niche within the university scholarly and the media industry environments. Since the South African turn to democracy in 1994, journalism and journalism education have experienced profound changes. Technologically, reporting has moved from a position where conventional printed media, radio and television dominated, to a landscape where the internet and satellite...
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Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, manycountries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term) contracts typically implying considerably lower salaries and a sharply reduced duration of professional training. While this policy has led to a boost of primary enrolment, there is a concern about a loss in...
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Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term) contracts typically implying considerably lower salaries and a sharply reduced duration of professional training. While this policy has led to a boost of primary enrolment, there is a concern about a loss in...
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When a history of evangelical theological education in modern Africa comes to be written, it will doubtless take as one defining moment the founding in 1976 of the Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa, ACTEA. That would not be the only defining moment in such a history, but easily it has proven to be among the most consequential in the last half century. For it was with the emergence of ACTEA that evangelical theological education in Africa first gained that sense of...
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Over a period of 30 years between 1967 and 1997, the population of wild chimpanzees Pan troglodytes in their natural habitats of tropical Africa has declined from 600 000 to less than 200 000 and is still declining thus raising global concern and a great need for their ex situ conservation. In the wild, chimpanzees live in communities and this is mimicked in captivity. For ex situ conservation of wild chimpanzees to be effective, efforts should be made to ensure acceptance of newly...
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This research focuses on the belief that a person’s attitude affects the way they view, pursue, and achieve within a subject area. From research using the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitude Scales come Fennema’s Theory, which Tapia and Marsh (2004) explain as the belief that performance in mathematics is an interaction of attitudes, mathematics anxiety, and behavior that occur during a learning task. The participants of the research were African-American students enrolled in college...
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South Africa’s history has been blemished by racial discrimination and political violence. In the education sphere, a white minority regime forced upon the majority of South Africans (i.e., blacks) an inferior and discriminatory “Bantu” education system that eventually resulted in schools and universities being turned into bloody battlefields.
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The advancement of distance learning as an educational tool for geographic information systems (GIS) has been at the forefront of educational development at tertiary institutions in the last decade in South Africa. Distance education is envisaged as a means whereby previously disadvantaged members of society, of all ages, can enrol either directly or remotely at a tertiary education institution at a reduced cost. The experiences of the UNIGIS distance learning programme at the University of...
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This paper is concerned partly with some of the broader questions in the political economy of higher education in South Africa. In which direction is higher education being steered and ought it to be steered in another direction? In section 2 of this paper the authors consider the empirical patterns that have emerged during the past two decades and show that the funding formulas and other policy interventions by government, together with the matriculation success rates and government...