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Although there have been numerous appeals for such research in the professional literature, this study was the first to empirically investigate individual difference variables influencing vocational identity and hope in setting and achieving goals in African American college students. One-hundred twenty-two African American college students attending a predominantly White university completed measures assessing students' racial identity attitudes, vocational identity, and sense of hope to...
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African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North Carolina, the Caswell County Training School, which operated from 1934 to 1969. She focuses especially on the importance of dedicated teachers and the principal, who believed their jobs extended...
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Previous health policies in South Africa neglected the teaching of ethics and human rights to health professionals. In April 1995, a pilot course was run at the University of Cape Town in which the ethical dimensions of human rights issues in South Africa were explored.To compare knowledge and attitudes of participating students with a group of control students.Retrospective cohort study.Seventeen fourth-year medical students who participated in the course and 13 control students from the...
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Summary Nigerian secondary school teachers (n – 360) of three subject groupings (arts, sciences and social sciences) were administered an environmental knowledge and attitude scale. The teachers generally demonstrated a low level of environmental knowledge, although the science and social science teachers were found to be more knowledgeable than their arts counterparts. Negative environmental attitudes were also found to be prevalent among the three categories of teachers. The study revealed...
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This study examined relationships between family social status, perceptions of proximal family environment and students' self-concept scores. Data were collected from 189 female and 146 male 18-yr.-old South Africans. Regression surfaces were constructed from models that included terms to account for linear, interaction, and curvilinear associations among the variables. The study suggests the general propositions (a) family social status and proximal family environment combine to have large...
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This study aims to examine the relationship between parental reports of child asthma and levels and slopes of anxiety and depression symptoms among two contrasting groups of Puerto Rican youth, and to determine whether asthma is a special risk above and beyond parents' reports of other youths' medical conditions.Two probability samples of youth in San Juan and Caguas, Puerto Rico (n = 673) and in the south Bronx, New York (n = 598), and their caretakers were interviewed in three yearly...
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A conference paper on small business development in Zimbabwe. Originally prepared for: Conference on Zimbabwe: macroeconomic policy, management and performance since independence: lessons for the 21st century, 19-21 August, Sheraton Hotel, Harare.
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This study examined a causal model of career maturity based on Super's theory (1953, 1990) and determined its fit to a sample of African-American male and female university students. Using structural equation modeling with data from 288 African-American students (freshman to doctoral levels), the results confirmed that attributions of causality and work salience moderate the effects of sex, SES, and educational level on career maturity. Work salience exerted the strongest direct effect on...
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Previous articleNext article No AccessChanging Education for Majority Rule in Zimbabwe and South AfricaJohn PapeJohn Pape Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 42, Number 3Aug., 1998 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article...
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Abstract The effect of education level on suicide risk among African Americans is a neglected subject. Gains in educational attainment for African Americans over the last three decades have not resulted in corresponding gains in economic success, a situation that can promote anomic suicide. Observers of African American suicide have also argued that middle-class aspirants tend to have weak communal ties or low social integration. A logistic regression analysis of recently released, national...
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A retrospective review of 442 patients, seen by one maxillofacial unit over a twelve-year period, is presented. Data concerning the patients' demographics and the aetiology, pattern, treatment and complications of the fractures were obtained and evaluated. Approximately 72% of the patients sustained fractures from road traffic accidents and 39% of the fractures occurred in the 21-30-year range. There was a male preponderence and 8% of all cases had postoperative infections. Over 20% of the...