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The objectives of this study were to assess the psyclionietric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) for academics in South African higher education institutions and to investigate the relationship between engagement, job demands and job resources. A crosssectional survey design was used. Stratified random samples (N = 471) were taken of academic staff in three higher education institutions in Soutli Africa. The UWES and the Job DemandsResources Scale (JDRS) were...
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Considered in this paper is the concept of changefor practising teachers who are teaching and learning African music in Melbourne, Australia. African music and culture is seen as an effective way for these teachers to experience a cross-cultural odyssey through both social and situated learning. This chapter reports on a music project where teachers perceived African music to be an effective way to leam link and participate with a new music and culture. The chapter summarises pertinent...
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After the jubilation of the first democratic election in 1994, South African educational settings were faced with the challenge to rethink curriculum, content and delivery as part of its nation building process. Education continues to be a major player in stimulating wider change in society and is one arena where change may be readily facilitated. Changing the style and practice of teacher education programs remains a key feature in the transformation process. Twelve years on, curriculum,...
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The scribe is a class with good ethics and culture in ancient Egypt.For the aim of moral education,teachers who train scribes ask the students to copy the instruction literatures.This paper involves the traditional moralities including humility,patience,godliness and loyalty to the throne,justice and no greed,and some daily action criterion to the aged,to the superior,to the week and others.
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The Volta Basin is a climate sensitive, semi-arid to sub-humid region in West Africa. Livelihood of the population is mainly dependent on agriculture and therefore highly vulnerable to rainfall variability and climate change. For an investigation of the impact of a possible global climate change to regional climate and surface, as well as sub-surface hydrology in the region of the Volta Basin. coupled regional climate- hydrology simulations were performed. Therefore. the mesoscale...
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This paper is based on the construction materials aspects in the development of low cost design for earthquake resistant shelter development in Western Uganda under the Support to Earthquake Disaster Project in the Ministry of Works, Housing and Communications. This was a partial fulfillment of the recommendations by the Government in response to the 1994 Kisomoro earthquake that left nine people dead, several injured and property loss worth US$ 60,000,000 in Kabarole District. The National...
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Although the debate over the returns to vocational versus general education has become an important research in education, adequate empirical work in Africa is still lacking. We add new evidence to this debate by comparing returns to vocational and general education of workers in Tanzanian manufacturing firms. Whereas most of the previous evidences are based on cross sectional data, this paper provides a comparison of the returns to general and vocational education using firm level panel...
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Owing to socio-economic and other related barriers, a large number of children in Uganda do not access primary school education, despite the existence of the Universal Primary Education Programme. To cater for out-of-school children of primary school age in poor urban areas of Kampala, the government set up Basic Education for Urban Poverty Areas (BEUPA), a non-formal education project. This project has established 72 learning centres in 70 of the 97 parishes of Kampala, trained over 170...