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This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the region's agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in Sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by strengthening innovative capabilities, or the ability to introduce new products and processes that are socially or economically relevant to smallholder farmers and other agents in the agricultural sector. Using...
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African Americans inherited a “nigger” culture. The literature posits that AfricanAmerican culture was founded, formed, and shaped in America where European Americans instilled within African Americans the belief, albeit erroneous, that those of African descent were inferior humans, especially, intellectually (see Conrad, 1966; Davis, 2005; Higginbotham, 1996). Is it no wonder that African American children are, academically, the poorest performing children in America? Corruptive historical...
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This paper aims to analyze explicit and implicit policies pertaining to the use or treatment of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) in educational practice using Language Policy and Planning frameworks. Status planning for AAVE and acquisition planning for Standard English (SE) often intersect in this domain, with acquisition planning for SE sometimes resulting in the raising of status for AAVE. The linguistic culture is analyzed through a review of language attitudes literature and...
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This study investigated whether readability factors and/or misconceptions could account for the patterns of choice evidenced by South African learners in multiple-choice items in TIMSS 2003. The investigation focused on 20 items in which learners showed a strong preference for an incorrect answer. The trend was particularly noticeable among learners who attended schools in which all the learners and teachers speak an African language as their home language. The study arose from a concern...
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The purpose of this study was to critically examine the perceptions that African-American high school students have towards engineering. A qualitative research design using criterion sampling and snowballing was used to select seven African-American students from urban high schools to participate in the research. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from participants attending urban high schools on the east and west coast. Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as the theoretical...
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Professional development of beginning teachers through induction and mentoring has been commonly viewed as important for teachers’ success and continuation in the teaching profession. Induction and specifically mentoring programs focus attention on transitions from one stage of teacher development to another. The three phases of teacher development are initial teacher education, known as pre-service, the induction phase and the ongoing teacher in-service education. The move from student to...
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that overall, the relative benefits to tertiary education rose over the period. We show also that these aggregate trends mask substantial variation among race...
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. [The authors] use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that overall, the relative benefits to tertiary education rose over the period. [The authors] show also that these aggregate trends mask substantial...
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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICO-LIBERIANS IN LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA (1980) by Etrenda C. Dillon Education has proven to be a powerful tool. Higher education in particular has been and continues to be utilized in various ways around the world and has been instrumental in the rise of societies including Americo-Liberian society in Liberia, West Africa. This study investigates how education has been instrumental in the formation of identity for Americo-Liberians (descendants...