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Psychologists can play an important role in supporting learner-athletes who opt to pursue dual careers by rendering services that are relevant to both the careers of learner-athletes. This study explored the usefulness of facilitating narrative career counselling with learner-athletes in a South African sport school as opposed to traditional career counselling, as the latter has shortcomings in addressing the needs of adolescents within a diverse South African context. Three participants...

Abstract Restless silicic calderas present major geological hazards, and yet many also host significant untapped geothermal resources. In East Africa, this poses a major challenge, although the calderas are largely unmonitored their geothermal resources could provide substantial economic benefits to the region. Understanding what causes unrest at these volcanoes is vital for weighing up the opportunities against the potential risks. Here we bring together new field and remote sensing...

This paper reports the result to investigate into the nonlinear dynamic response characteristics of GP (graphene/piezoelectric) laminated films in sensing moving transversal load induced by externally moving adhesive particles or molecules, based on the nonlocal elasticity theory and Von Kármán nonlinear geometric relations. A reformulated differential quadrature method (DQM) is proposed to solve the nonlinear dynamic equations constructed with the Hamilton’s principles and Galerkin method....

Irrefutably, the role of formal education in any society is paramount in steering the socio-economic development and breaking the cycle of poverty. It is an inalienable right that all should enjoy and embrace. Through a documentary analyses methodology, the paper explored the pitfalls to education provision in Eastern Cape Province. The analysis has emphasized the indispensability of education and elucidated the following pitfalls; inherited historical inequalities; violence in schools and...

This paper sought to explore the contributing factors of crime and violence in schools as a pathway to formulate alternative ways to bolster the perfidy currently experienced in schools in South Africa. A qualitative method was employed to explore the perceptions and experiences of the participants towards crime and violence in schools. The study was explorative in nature and the design took the form of a case study. An interview guide with semi-structured questions was utilized as a data...

Cyber security threats are on the rise as the use of personally owned devices are increasing within higher education institutions. This is due to the rapid adoption of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. In 2014, 92% of students used laptops globally for academic purposes, 44% used tablets, and 68% used smart phones. In addition, 89% of higher education institutions in the United States and United Kingdom allow students, faculty and non-academic staff to access their network using...

This article concerns itself with socially just pedagogies in South African higher education. It outlines key elements of new materialist and socio-materialist views on education, and how these views portray knowledge and learning. It briefly outlines what socially just pedagogies in higher education might mean within this worldview. The data on which the study is based comprise interview transcripts with ten lecturers at each of two higher education institutions one historically advantaged...

This paper examines teacher continuous professional development in junior secondary schools in Botswana. Teachers are central to the teaching and learning process, hence, their continuous professional development should be constantly nurtured to meet their ever demanding changes in school's physical and social environment, curriculum and educational policy. Teachers need to adapt to such changes to be effective to such a dynamic environment. The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on...

The South African government is well respected for its commitment to affordable access to higher education, as it is embedded in the national constitution. Despite this progressive stance, gaining access to university education remains a mirage for many students whose socio-economic circumstances are still precarious, even decades after the advent of democracy. This paper uses a literature review methodology to describe the diverging contours of access to university education, in order to...

This article examines the factors leading children in Hawassa, Ethiopia, to want to go to school in order ‘to become good people’. Drawing on a critical realist understanding of human agency, it argues that children’s motivations for going to school rested both on their ‘ultimate’, moral concerns and ‘ideas of the good’ and on external generative mechanisms that led them to identify participation in formal education as the key to becoming a ‘good’ person.

The research sought to examine the contribution made by private colleges to education in Zimbabwe using a case study of ten private colleges in Harare Province, Zimbabwe. The study was motivated by the discovery that while the private colleges are an important phenomenon in Zimbabwe, some are failing to adhere to the requisite education standards of the education system in Zimbabwe. The researcher made use of a case study research design with a total sample of 609 respondents. Stratified...

Providing adolescents with evidence-based sexual risk reduction interventions is critical to addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Project AIM (Adult Identity Mentoring) is an innovative, evidence-based, youth development intervention that is being evaluated for the first time in Botswana through a 3-year (2015–2017), 50-school cluster randomized controlled trial, including testing for herpes simplex virus type 2 as a sexual activity biomarker. Conducting...

Purpose The intent of this study was to explore the relation between language variation and theory of mind (ToM) in African American child narrators. Method Fifty children produced a narrative on the basis of the wordless book, Frog, Where Are You? ToM was assessed by children's internal-state words and false-belief mentioning in the book's narratives as well as their performance on the Reading the Eyes in the Mind Test (Baron-Cohen, Joliffe, Mortimore, & Robertson, 1997). Correlation...

Geographical field work has been argued to be particularly useful in the development of insight, attainment of cognitive/intellectual, technical achievements and development of empathy in students.In view of this argument therefore geographical field work becomes an inalienable and corporate part of teaching and learning process in schools.The study therefore assesses the implementation of fieldwork in some senior secondary schools in Kano state.Stratified random sampling was used to select...