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Intellectual disability is common in low- and middle-income countries, but there are few healthcare services available. As part of a larger study, we investigated spiritual healers’ beliefs about intellectual disability and family support in Cape Town, South Africa. All eight healers interviewed believed that the church has a role to play in assisting families of children with intellectual disability, but many held misconceptions about this condition. These findings show that there is an...

University students can experience many challenges writing for academic purposes as they move from secondary to post-secondary studies. Both first and additional language users of English experience these challenges, resulting in universities across the globe instituting different modalities to help ease students’ transitions. In South African universities, despite English being the medium of instruction, most students are additional language speakers of English. This article discusses...

Abstract Background A large proportion of postgraduate students the world over complete a research thesis in partial fulfilment of their degree requirements. This study identified and evaluated support mechanisms for research generation and utilization for masters’ students in health institutions of higher learning in Uganda. Methods This was a self-administered cross-sectional survey using a modified self-assessment tool for research institutes (m-SATORI). Postgraduate students were...

Education is becoming more and more important not only for the development of one’s personality but also for the sustained growth of nations mainly in the age of globalisation as information is universally shared. The impact of globalization on education in the contemporary time has emerged as a subject of continuous debate and discourse. This paper focuses on the impact of globalization in the domain of higher education wide world since it drives changes in education systems towards wider...

Abstract This chapter provides a critical look at what COVID-19 meant for the education sector in South Africa. It documents the path of the pandemic in the education space to understand its effects and the short-term responses of the education system. It begins with the premise that the South African educational system is structurally fragile. Its fragility arises out of the injustices of the apartheid system which disadvantaged schools and learners. It argues that the country has made...

Ingenious technology-driven education has become prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic in schools. This article solicits pre-primary to Grade 12 learners' parents’/ guardians’ views and experiences of distance learning in Namibia during the COVID-19 lockdown. The study employs a mixed-methods research design to gather and analyse data. The analysis of the qualitative data revealed the following main themes: 1) Barriers to distance learning, and 2) Suggestions to overcome these challenges....

Public transport plays an important role in improving mobility for persons with visual impairment. Commercial drivers are major stakeholders in ensuring that there are efficient and accessible public transport systems on university campuses that have a relatively high number of persons with visual impairment. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 90 taxi drivers who operate their services on the campus of a tertiary inclusion school. The drivers were surveyed on their knowledge and...

The article considers the nature of the volcanic fluxes that are traditionally interpreted as the only example of recent mantle-derived carbonatite lavas (carbonate magmas or melts) on the Earth. However, it turns out that this is not correct. These fluxes represent muddy soda masses with organics. Their source are masses of solutions and sediments of the Natron alkaline lake, that penetrate deep to the above-chamber space of the volcano along riftogenic faults, where they are heated and...

The purpose of the research is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on higher education policies and their effect on students' academic performance at public universities in Ethiopia. The study adopts a quantitative approach followed by causal analysis by applying structural equation modeling. A sample of 384 has been selected through simple random sampling out of a large population of academic staff spread homogeneously across Ethiopia. The study variables are COVID-19, higher education...

<p>This study investigated the effects of activity-based instructional strategy on senior secondary schools students’ retention in circle geometry. The study employed a quasi-experimental design of the type pre-test, post-test groups design. The sample for the study comprised of 162 senior secondary 2 students drawn from two randomly selected co-educational schools in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. The research instrument was Mathematics Retention Test (MRT) containing items...

Purpose Educational management's main task is to achieve learning quality outcomes in acquiring knowledge, scientific skills and social values. This study aims to provide a background on Egyptian thought development in educational management from 1990 to 2020. Design/methodology/approach In this study, we used the descriptive method to collect and interpret data. This method aims to describe an object of phenomena after data collection, analyze it, identify the conditions and relationships...

Background: Developing higher-order comprehension skills of learners in primary schools is a challenge that faces many countries. South Africa is no exception. Primary school learners in South Africa have particularly low literacy and comprehension skills: many learners struggle to read for understanding. There is little published scholarship that focuses on developing the comprehension skills of Grade 3 learners in a second language. A lack of practical classroom knowledge in this area is...

The current work aims to study the metallic contamination of two targeted sampling sites located near the main effluent discharge points on the Algerian coasts: the industrial Gulf of Arzew (Polluted Site: S1) and Oued Elma Kristel (Reference Site: S2), using a metallic pollution indicator biological species Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 (Bivalvia Mytilidae), collected at a depth of 2 to 3 m seasonally in 2016.Concentrations of metals and metallic indices of the trace elements...

Limited literature exists on how to improve classroom concentration (CC) of survivors of kidnapping. The current study extends the literature in this direction through a quasi-experiment involving 470 schoolchildren (SC) who survived kidnapping in the last one year. The result of the study showed that SC who received counseling through a visual multimedia (VM) package reported more CC than their counterparts who received counseling through face-to-face setting. The study concludes that VM is...

This study investigated correlation between heath’s (1964) model of cognitive preference styles and chemistry achievement among secondary school students in Minna educational zone, Niger state, Nigeria. Research design for this study was ex-post facto design. A total of 269 SS3 chemistry students were sampled from randomly selected schools with a total population of 7,414 students. 2 instruments were used for data collection: Heath cognitive preference test instrument (HCPT) with reliability...

In this chapter we start our enquiry with the question ‘‘What if’ and ‘what else’ are the children doing? The data we draw on are from an international project between the LEGO Foundation and the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and Cape Town (SA) on learning and creativity in digital play. Karin was the Principal Investigator of the South African study involving seven pre-primary and primary schools in South Africa. As we theorise the practice using critical posthuman theories, we rephrase...

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, international financial assistance is expected to support African and other developing countries as they prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The impact of this finance depends on how much finance is mobilized and where it is targeted. However, there has been no comprehensive quantitative mapping of adaptation-related finance flows to African countries to date. Here we track development finance principally...

Abstract Farmer training is a key strategy for building skills that lead to enhanced productivity of small‐scale farmers' fields. This result hinges on farmers transferring the training to their fields. However, the factors that determine the subsequent transfer of training including those with mediating effects are not fully known. A study was conducted to assess the mediating role of perceived content validity on the association of farmers' motivation to implement acquired knowledge with...