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Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentVolume 16, Issue 1 p. 30-35 Influence of Traditional Factors on Career Choice Among Nigerian Secondary School Youth Daniel I. Denga, Daniel I. Denga Daniel I. Denga is a professor of guidance and counseling and head of the Educational Foundations and Administration Department at University of Calabar, Nigeria.Search for more papers by this author Daniel I. Denga, Daniel I. Denga Daniel I. Denga is a professor of guidance and counseling and...
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Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentVolume 16, Issue 1 p. 16-23 African Children's Attitude Toward Learning Jerman Disasa, Jerman Disasa Jerman Disasa is a regional director of the Coordinating Council for Africa and the Middle East, Byrnes International Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia.Search for more papers by this author Jerman Disasa, Jerman Disasa Jerman Disasa is a regional director of the Coordinating Council for Africa and the Middle East, Byrnes...
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Newly independent African governments asserted control over primary and secondary education in response to the demands that the state provide greater access to education to raise the skill level of the labor force, to foster national integration and loyalty to a new political culture, and to correct the disparities in educational opportunity that is inherited from the colonial period. The result was the establishment of highly centralized systems in which government control over education at...
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Primary schooling will continue to be the terminal stage of education for most Kenyan children, and it will have to prepare them for employment that they will create for themselves. What this might imply for the teaching of craft skills is examined. Soapstone carving was selected as the subject of study because it is an important form of self-employment in western Kenya. The acquisition of craft skills in and outside schools was compared using observational and experimental methods. It is...
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Adopting new health practices is not simply a matter of being told what to do and doing what one is told. The primary health care interventions that are currently being introduced in Kenya and developing countries to reduce infant mortality require parents to perform complex cognitive tasks. These involve making inferences from knowledge of human biology and disease processes that may not be acquired from health instruction provided in schools or through public health campaigns. What is...
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Examinations strongly influence how students are taught and what they learn, especially in countries like Kenya which use national examinations to select a small proportion of primary school students for further education. This paper reports findings from a demonstration study of the impact of examination question construction on health instruction and learning in a Nairobi primary school. Health test items for the mock Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination were revised...
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Gastrointestinal diseases are prevalent throughout the Middle East and Africa, causing high morbidity and mortality. The available data point to a morbidity of 20% in Zimbabwe and 18% in Egypt, and to a mortality of 26.6%, 17.9%, and 7.9% in Egypt, Mauretania, and Syria, respectively. However, most if not all the countries in our area of interest lack valid medical statistics. Gastroenterology is a neglected speciality in our region. Community-based curricula have only been tried in Egypt...