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Underachievement among secondary students in Tanzania is tragic: the failure rate on the national exams after the fourth year is between 65 to 100 percent (Mushi, 2011).The literature affirms that student learning is primarily improved by enhancing quality classroom instruction while the second most impactful strategy is consistent school leadership to ensure that effective practices are utilized in the classroom (
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The increasing clamour for democracy and good governance in Africa risked being futile if a politically literate citizenry remains insignificant and is not proactively dominant in the workings of the state. A democratic culture anchored on the respect and protection of human rights need to be imbibed in wider cross sections of the citizenry. Among the structures in the society that can be used to achieve this objective, the educational systems can be effective in inculcating and fostering a...
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St. Mary's is an independent school in Johannesburg, South Africa, which has always been multiracial. It is one of the top academic school in the country.
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This report documents the Phase 1 implementation of an intervention for family planning (FP) and safe motherhood (SM) preservice education at midwifery schools in Ghana and the recommended strategy for expansion of the program. It describes the initial intervention the progress of the program during two years of implementation and the outcomes as of August 2000. The most recent revision of the 1969 population policy in Ghana demonstrates the commitment of the Government of Ghana (GOG) to...
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Microaggressions are subtle insults (verbal, nonverbal, and/or visual) directed toward people of color, often automatically or unconsciously. Using critical race theory as a framework, the study described in this article provides an examination of racial microaggressions and how they influence the collegiate racial climate. Using focus group interview data from African American students at three universities, it reveals that racial microaggressions exist in both academic and social spaces in...
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This paper attempts to do three things: first to provide an argument for acknowledging and using the cultural dimension in educational development; second to put the case for a culturally more appropriate research methodology; and third to address the issue of access and gender in schooling within a cultural framework. Using predominantly life history interviews with women teachers and girls in and out of school, the research identifies three domains of enquiry: the home, economy and school,...
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Many things have changed since South Africa's first full democratic elections in 1994, as a result of which the 'apartheid' government of the former National Party was replaced by an ANC government. Since then the question has often been asked: Has the change been for the better or for worse? Many 'South African prophets' have over the years become involved in this whole debate about South Africa's political situation. Before 1994 there were those who supported the apartheid regime, and...
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The paper reports on how children from poor families in Uganda finance their university education. A livelihoods systems framework is used to analyse the responses of a series of student discussion groups which explored what it costs to attend university and how these funds are secured. It is concluded that the differing capacity of students to raise funds is most strongly influenced by how much access they have to kin networks, and how wealthy these networks are. The best bargaining tool...