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This paper presents a descriptive study of an Early Childhood Development (ECD) intervention project, grounded in a community-based research approach that resulted in a wide range of learning and development opportunities for children in townships in Gauteng, Vaal Triangle in South Africa. During the implementation phase, ECD student teachers and lecturers at the North-West University (NWU), Vaal Triangle campus participated. Data was gathered through questionnaires and interviews. The...

The Collaborative Actions for Sustainable Tourism (COAST) Project is a five-year project funded by GEF with the UNEP as implementing agency; and the UNIDO as executing agency in partnership with the UNWTO. Its main objective is to demonstrate and support the adoption of BAPs/BATs approaches for sustainable tourism that reduces the degradation of marine and coastal environments of trans-boundary significance in its nine sub-Saharan African partner countries. The project has three interlinked...

<h3>Background</h3> “Adolescents “and “young people “are defined by WHO as the age group 10–19 years and 10–24 years, respectively. The health threats for adolescents today are predominantly behavioural rather than biomedical and more of today’s adolescents are involved in health behaviours with potential for serious consequences. Hence, it is important to understand the exposure of school students to sexual and reproductive health knowledge and skills at different places including home....

A Research Project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of degree of Masters in Early Childhood Education in the Department of Educational Communication and Technology

Africa's many formalistic, teacher-centred traditions require students to learn revealed knowledge. This paradigm contrasts with the internationally encouraged progressive paradigm, which is based on incongruent epistemological assumptions and educational values that are widely regarded as embedded in Western notions of political and cultural superiority. The Progressive Education Fallacy, on which classroom reforms have often been based, assumes that development of the enquiring mind needs...

The study sought to explore the type of skills needed by government secondary school heads in order for them to be effective. Hence, the study examined whether school heads could be effective if they employed either leadership skills, management skills or if they employed both skills. The main purpose of the study was to establish how any of the skills aforementioned could boost productivity in government secondary schools. The study was carried out in government secondary schools in...

AbstractThe current study aims to measure the importance of e-service quality, interactivity, comfort, and familiarity on student satisfaction and behavioral intentions with e-learning in private universities in Egypt. Data from a sample of private university students were collected. Using structural equation modeling, e-service quality, interactivity, comfort, and familiarity were found to be positively related to student satisfaction and behavioral intentions. The mediating role of student...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2013. Major: Educational Psychology. Advisor: Dr. Skovholt. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 203 pages, appendices A-B.

This study investigated teachers' perceptions of their role as HIV/AIDS educators and also their role in providing care for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) across the different school systems in Lusaka, Zambia. Researchers used a combined quantitative and qualitative narrative approach. Original cross-sectional data were collected through face-to-face survey and in-depth interviews with school teachers in the Lusaka. A sample of 720 teachers from 123 schools completed surveys in 2008,...

The year 2012 was a relatively ‘wet’ year for many areas of the African Sahel. In spite of earlier predictions of normal or below normal rainfall in the East Sahel early in the season, by September of 2012, humanitarian agencies reported that flash floods in the region had affected almost a quarter million people, destroying tens of thousands of homes. Early evidence of impending conditions was supplied by satellite images largely produced from the geosynchronous EUMETSAT METEOSATs and low...

IntroductionWhere data are available, bullying victimization is prevalent globally with significant regional variations in the rates of victimization (1-2). In a study on bully victimization among in-school adolescents from five continents, Due et al (2) reported the highest 30 day prevalence for bullying victimization among boys was in Zimbabwe (70.2%), while Zambia had the highest prevalence for girls (67%). Adverse conditions positively associated with victimization from bullying include...

Abstract In this article we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather‐index insurance markets in Ethiopia, were such markets to develop on a large scale. We do this by examining the determinants of willingness to pay for weather insurance among 1,400 Ethiopian households that have been tracked for 15 years as part of the Ethiopian Rural household Survey. This provides both historical and current information with which to assess the determinants of demand. We find that...

Global development has been asphyxiated by climate change as evidenced by significant repercussions on the world economy.While agriculture is the backbone of most developing economies in the global south, this sector is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Grim statistics point to a bleak future if the risk posed by climate change is not tackled.The impact of climate change has generally seen precipitation increasing in the Global North while the same has decreased in the Global South...

The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns on the sexual behaviour of students at the University of Fort Hare, Alice campus. The research was specifically aimed at establishing whether HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns are exerting any significant changes on the sexual behaviour of students at the University of Fort Hare. The research was informed by the health belief model and its variables namely, perceived threats, perceived barriers and self efficacy. A...

Abstract In this article, I attempt a seamless explanation, categorisation and discussion of the twin concepts of deformity and disability as they are imagined in Zimbabwean orature and literary discourse. I suggest that the two aberrations manifest themselves physically and psychologically and that, generally, Zimbabwean society exhibits ambivalence towards the two. This ambivalence is manifested through fear and anxiety, especially when such afflictions assail one's loved ones,...

School children travel forms an important part of the general traffic planning. However, over the years the access needs and transport requirements of the children have been overlooked or neglected. The paper examined the travel characteristics of school children and the challenges they faced en-route school. Both primary and secondary data were used for this work. Using multi-stage sampling, 373 questionnaire were administered to school children in selected secondary schools. The...

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is one of the most common human enzyme deficiencies in the world.It is particularly common in populations living in malaria-endemic areas, affecting more than 400 million people worldwide.This present study was conducted with the aim of determining the prevalence of G6PD deficiency among children visiting the Emergency Paediatric Unit of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital for pediatric-related care.The study included 118...

At a time when disillusionment with mainstream institutions and a focus on black power appeared dominant in the struggle for racial equality in the United States, the interracial Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE) carried the ideals of the early civil rights movement into the late 1960s and early 1970s, garnering support from liberal foundations and individual donors for projects that fostered political and economic empowerment among black southerners. This...