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Shoved down our throats : pride, shame and guilt in the contemporary South African literature classroom
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Abstract: The importance of developing local capacity to evaluate the impact of interventions has been highlighted as a new solution to an old problem in educational reform in developing countries. Due to fatigue experienced by the international community in the 1990s, international aid agencies have recognised that development interventions can not materialize educational outcomes successfully, without enhancing the local capacity and ownership in developing countries. One of the issues...
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Abstract: The importance of developing local capacity to evaluate the impact of interventions has been highlighted as a new solution to an old problem in educational reform in developing countries. Due to fatigue experienced by the international community in the 1990s, international aid agencies have recognised that development interventions can not materialize educational outcomes successfully, without enhancing the local capacity and ownership in developing countries. One of the issues...
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In East African countries drought-related famine has been a number one risk. Ethiopia is among those countries that are repeatedly stricken by recurrent famine. Agricultural and pastoral households have increasingly become vulnerable to famine. The successive Ethiopian governments attributed the recurring famine and hunger to natural events, particularly to droughts. However, though drought triggers famines, it does not necessarily lead to famine disaster in every context. This is the...
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As the prevalence of service-learning within higher education institutions grows across the globe there is value to explore, discuss, and describe the similarities and differences between the various expressions that are emerging. Such comparative analysis can deepen understanding of service-learning pedagogy, improve practice, and create a framework for future research. This paper compares service-learning in the United States and South Africa to understand Western-oriented and Africanized...
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During the last couple of years South African higher education institutions went through major transformation - in particular with regard to enrolling increasingly more nonwhite students. Not only do the majority of these students come from an educational impoverished background but also from different cultural and language backgrounds. Given the history of South Africa's higher education system up till now curricula and textbooks and lecturing have been done predominantly by white...
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This paper explores the role of social protection in helping Africa adapt to climate change. The increase in covariate (environmental and health) risks due to ongoing and future climate changes, and the demonstrated adverse impacts of such risks, make it important to scale up interventions to reduce household vulnerability. Efforts under way to gear up adaptation to climate change in Africa must be responsive to the needs of the poor. Social protection can contribute to this with its...
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This qualitative study examined African American male secondary principals’ beliefs, values, and leadership practices that contribute to successful urban schools. Narrative inquiry was used to investigate the factors that influenced the leadership practices—and related education environment success—of six African American male public school principals from six different secondary urban schools in Ohio. Findings related to participant input led to three primary conclusions: (a) effective...
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The Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, because of their shared Islamic heritage, similar relationship with imperialism, and trajectory of modernization, have undergone comparable—if not identical—paths of educational transformation since the eighteenth century. Educational institutions and social actors therein have been key figures in the perpetuation of tradition and have been harbingers of change and innovation. The pursuit of knowledge (`ilm) within a context of culturally...
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The spectral and radiometric performance of payload SEVIRI onboard the geostationary platform MSG-2, make its data particularly well suited not only to the detection of the onset of volcanic activity, but also to the measurement of thermal radiant fluxes and eruption rates. Thorough testing was carried out on two volcanoes - Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Southern Italy) and Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion Island, northwestern Indian Ocean) - that mostly give rise to short-lived lava flows....