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Emotional trauma affects a large proportion of the South African population. This article addresses its influence on music learners, including its effects on brain development, relational development, learning and music-making. The power of the educator to reshape a child’s brain by providing a nurturing and consistent environment is stressed. The effect of the environment in modulating epigenetic expression is discussed in conjunction with object relations theory as a model for human...

Climate change is predicted to result in changes in the geographic ranges and local prevalence of infectious diseases, either through direct effects on the pathogen, or indirectly through range shifts in vector and reservoir species. To better understand the occurrence of monkeypox virus (MPXV), an emerging Orthopoxvirus in humans, under contemporary and future climate conditions, we used ecological niche modeling techniques in conjunction with climate and remote-sensing variables. We first...

Background: Women with a disability are often characterised as a homogenous social group consigned to a cultural stereotype with assumptions of dependence, asexuality and gender neutrality. Furthermore, there is a void of research about the experience of people with disabilities following diagnosis with HIV. Little is known about how HIV diagnosis intersects with disability and gender and how it shapes the experiences of intimacy and gender roles of those negotiating this...

This study aimed to investigate Libyan postgraduate students’ reading problems concerning sentence structure, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. A descriptive quantitative research instrument accomplished the objectives of the study. However, the participants in the study were composed of 70 students studying in different programs at Diponegoro University. Furthermore, the participants were asked to fill-in questionnaire that aimed to investigate the respondents' reading problems, to...

ABSTRACT The current study is aimed at evaluating the relationship between attachment and identity development, and their influence on psychological well‐being in adolescents with and without disabilities in Kenya. The sample was composed of 296 adolescents (151 with disabilities and 145 without any disability). The mean age in our sample was 16.84 years ( SD = 1.75). Adolescents with disabilities had significantly lower scores in identity formation, paternal attachment, and life...

Focusing on how to improve the quality of education for sustainable national development in Nigeria, the study implicated the fact that once quality education is assured, the outcome of it is development. Discussion in the paper pointed out the fact that school managers have a lot to do for schools to achieve their goal of ensuring quality education. It is however noted in tertiary institutions that despite accreditation instituted they are found wanting in the area of ensuring improved...

Workforce remains indispensable machinery through which goods and services are produced. Therefore, no society could succeed without having working class whose efforts are geared towards attaining societal development. The employment patterns and trends as well as technological changes of our society have called for continuous learning opportunities of workers to be able to fit in to the scheme of work dynamic situations and conditions. The welfare of workers and their family members is...

Journal Article Public and Private Provision of Education in Kenya Get access Tessa Bold, Tessa Bold aGoethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanybIIES, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Mwangi S. Kimenyi * cBrookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA *Corresponding author: Mwangi S. Kimenyi. E-mail: MKimenyi@brookings.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google...

Global warming is a worldwide phenomenon causing a temperature increase, which affects water resources. In Tunisia, high temperatures were recorded in the last decades with a warming tendency of about 1.1°C for 2020 and 2.1°C for 2050. The Chaffar region is characterized by an important agricultural activity and a semi-arid climate in which the irregular precipitations reach low values. Its shallow groundwater is overexploited with a disturbed hydraulic balance. A drawdown of its piezometric...

This is a quantitative study investigating the relationship between selfregulated learning, motivation, anxiety and achievement in mathematics.A total of 2,283 elementary pupil, 1,373 (60% female) and 913 (40% male) from selected fifth-sixth year elementary mathematics classrooms in Southwestern Nigeria participated in the study.Three instrumentsa version of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), an adaptation of the Test Anxiety Inventory revised for mathematics...

Girl -Child education has been a subject of serious concern in Nigeria.This is because this aspect of education has been bedevilled with problems especially in the Northern parts of the country.Researchers (Usman, 2007) and Daiyabu, 2008) have expressed concern about it and about the various forms of discriminations and sharp practices against the girl-child.Thus, this study investigated the perception of parents on the socio-cultural, religious and economic factors affecting the girl-child...

Improving the quality of curriculum development in private Universities in Africa from time to time is a task that is very essential to achieving effectiveness, efficiency, and relevance in the higher education system.Financial Intelligence is one of the five components of a twenty first century education, the kind of education that actually delivers the financial and Indexed African Journals Online: www.ajol.infowealth building results that people deserve.Unfortunately, a 21st century...

The use of substances such as alcohol, khat leaves and tobacco have long been recognized as one of the leading causes of human suffering and become one of the rising major public health and socio-economic problems worldwide. Even though substances use occurs in all segments of all societies, it is more spreading in an alarming rate among the young generation. This study aimed to establish the prevalence and associated factors of substances use among undergraduate students in Axum University....

It seems with the publication of George Lipsitz's book How Racism Takes Place (2011) and now with Erin Winkler's Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African Americ...

This article evaluates a program that constructed high quality “girl-friendly†primary schools in Burkina Faso. After 2.5 years, the program increased enrollment by 19 percentage points and increased test scores by 0.41 standard deviations. Girls’ enrollment increased by 5 percentage points more than boys’ enrollment, but test scores were the same for boys and girls.

South Africa and Mozambique offer contrasting examples of attitudes to education language policy. Whereas in SA African languages are extensively used in primary grades, following previous policies, parents in general prefer to send their children to English-medium schools; in Mozambique, the recently introduced bilingual experimental program which for the first time gives recognition to local languages in schools triggers enthusiasm among rural communities. Colonial policies therefore seem to shape attitudes, if in reverse.

Background: Childhood overweight and obesity has been an issue concern for both developing and developed countries. Developing countries are faced with prevalence of overweight/obesity and thinness/underweight. This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity and thinness among school-aged children in Tamale, Ghana and examine their influencing factors. Methods: From January to July 2010, a random sample of 218 from randomly selected...