Your search
Results 3,124 resources
-
Students' personal beliefs about their capabilities to learn influence their motivation and learning. This study determined the relationship between self-concept and academic achievement of Zimbabwean primary school students. A qualitative approach was used to collect data from 75 pupils (36 girls, 39 boys: age range 9–12 years). Data were also collected from five of the students' teachers. Pupils' perceptions of comments or feedback from classmates and teachers comprised the self-concept...
-
Quality students’ service of higher education, however, has been largely overlooked when the issue of quality service has been considered. This is not surprising. Because normally higher education, primarily, remain focused on teaching and research, with the administration tasks existing as a supporting role. Again, most of research works on quality services have ignored the education sector. Ironically even academicians who will be the immediate beneficiaries even focuses their research...
-
Clinical supervision has been known for decades. However, only in the past decade have training courses for supervision been developed and offered for health professionals working with a severely traumatized client population. Health professionals working as supervisors in this field are faced with specific problems. Together with Johan Lansen and Ton Haans, the Berlin Treatment Center for Torture Victims (bzfo) adapted the training method developed by Lansen/Haans in 1999, which offers...
-
The aim of the study was to investigate the knowledge about oral health and the experience ofpersonal and professional oral care among secondary school students. The study consisted of201 students ...
-
The legalisation of gay marriage became a reality for gays and lesbians throughout South Africa in November 2006, when the Civil Union Bill was passed, legalising marriages between same-sex couples (Civil Union Act, 2006). This article sets out to explore and compare the attitudes of male and female University students towards this important issue. Previous research has shown that the attitudes of females toward homosexuality tend to be more positive than the attitudes of males. In this...
-
The experience and responsibility of addressing diversity issues in independent schools is the focus of this article. Open-ended interviews were conducted with diversity coordinators in independent schools in a large urban area in the Northeast. Coordinators were asked about their roles within the schools and about their participation in a study on race within the school. Five major themes emerged around the issue of racial tokenism that described the tensions that diversity coordinators...
-
This article presents a model of youth civic engagement practice that has been implemented in the West Bank and Gaza since 2002. This is the story of Popular Achievement (PA). The paper discusses Popular Achievement's experiential “learning by doing” approach to youth civic engagement, suggesting the transformative value and learning potential of this model for young people. Drawing upon testimonies of its young “coaches,” we try to tease out some of the reported outcomes that young people...
-
Almost 15 years after the collapse of the apartheid system, there is still much racism and prejudice among South Africans. According to Allport's contact hypothesis and recent research interpersonal contact plays an important role in the reduction of racial prejudice. However, this is not only true for adults in South Africa, but equally and maybe even more important for the up-growing generation in South African high schools. The present study therefore reports on the degree of contact...
-
This short country report, a result of larger Information for Development Program (infoDev)-supported survey of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, provides a general overview of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in the country. Eritrea has made significant efforts to reform its education system with the objective of providing its citizens with accessible and high-quality education that is modern,...