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The major purpose of this research study is contrived to determine and evaluate the historical backgrounds of Nigeria and the United States and its implications in the educational policies and systems of the two nations. Both these countries had their humble beginning under the British colonial administration.
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In South Africa, counselling training poses two related difficulties: working in a situation of ubiquitous, ongoing violence, and offering training to people who have minimal or no qualifications and are often overwhelmed by enormous workload. In this context, there is a temptation either to give up hope in the face of the enormity of the task, or defensively to package counselling as a set of techniques which can be taught without much self-reflection. In this article we discuss, by...
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At the 1998 Book Day Symposium organised by the British Council in Lagos, almost everyone who spoke lamented the near absence of a reading culture in Nigeria. As one of the guest speakers, I tried to highlight and discuss some of the factors that militate against the development of a reading culture in our society. Naturally I also suggested ways by which this anomaly could be remedied. Few or a negligible proportion of people read for pleasure in Nigeria. And among these, students at the...
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Using a national sample of 325, this study investigates the extent of nurses' involvement in antenatal health education and explores variables that may be associated with their involvement. The study documents the importance of midwifery training and a nurse's own childbirth experience in promoting involvement in antenatal health education. It points to the relative unimportance of academic qualifications for nurses involved in antenatal health education. Findings show that work-related...
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Fasola, M., Hafner, H., Prosper, J., van der Kooij, H. & V. Schogolev, I. 2000. Population changes in European herons in relation to African climate. Ostrich 71 (1 & 2): 52–55. We describe population changes for six heron species, which have occurred during the past three decades in five areas of southern and central Europe. We seek correlations in the population levels between areas and between species, and we test the relationship between breeding population and climate during the...
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IT MAY SEEM a bit odd and disconcerting to hear that African Americans have for quite some time demon? strated an affinity for, and even an attraction to, German culture. But long before the rise of German fas? cism, two world wars, and a century of stereotyping Germans as brutal, racist, and warmongering Huns, an edu? cated elite among African Americans had felt a special kin? ship with Germany and many of her heroes. According to Leroy T. Hopkins, a black Harvard-trained professor of...