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The present paper reports on the findings of a study investigating the validity and feasibility of translanguaging as a potential alternative pedagogical practice in the Algerian EFL classroom. Translanguaging represents the discursive practices whereby multilingual learners employ all their linguistic repertoire as well as a modern multilingual pedagogy where all the language resources of the learner are exploited to maximize learning. Despite being a multilingual country, the Algerian...

IntroductionGlobal population growth and its respective demand, as well as climate change, put the water resources under pressure.It is estimated that by 2050, about 4.8 to 5.7 billion individuals will be living under conceivably water-scant regions.Climate change is speeding up every now and then over the Earth's surface because of the increment in human exercises.As per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in contrast with prior many years, radiative driving on the regular...

In the study reported on here, we investigated the effectiveness of principal leadership practices in secondary schools in Niger State, Nigeria. Surveys were conducted with 154 principals, 269 heads of the department and 25 members of staff from the Secondary Education Board in Niger State. The findings indicate that the extent of principal leadership practices and school effectiveness attributes in secondary schools in Niger State is high. The result of multiple regressions shows that about...

Abstract Background Globally, 19 million children have preventable vision impairment simply because refractive and eye health services are inaccessible to most of them. In Zambia, 50,000 school children need spectacle provision. The School-based Eye Health Programme (SEHP) has been identified worldwide as a proven strategy to address childhood blindness. Given the great benefits of it, the Zambian government intends to scale up the programme. This scalability assessment aims to identify and...

This study, conducted at the University of Namibia (UNAM) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, explores the perspectives of students and lecturers on the experience of learning/teaching foreign languages during the COVID 19 pandemic. The study sought to establish and delimit the enablers and constraints of Foreign Language online teaching/learning, to improve the quality of UNAM service. A quantitative method using online questionnaires was proposed to collect data from all...

In the Integrated Strategic Planning Framework for Teacher Education and Development, a South African policy, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the Department of Higher Education (DHET) call for the formation of professional learning communities and envisage support for teachers and access to enhanced professional development opportunities at the local level. However, the formation and operation of professional learning communities in a South African context is still unclear. In...

Purpose The non-performance of construction projects in meeting the set objectives has continued to draw researchers worldwide. Despite this, little attention is accorded to public tertiary education building projects in Nigeria. Therefore, on this background, this study aims to assess the perceptions of stakeholders on the level of occurrence of risk factors in the public tertiary education building projects (TEBP) to enhance the performance of these projects. Design/methodology/approach...

Abstract Deafness has a very variable disease. It may occur as a result of external auditory canal involvement or a deficiency in the sound conduction mechanism (transmission deafness) or impairment of the cochlear, cochlear nerve or central auditory perception. Genetics is the most common cause, as approximately 70% of hearing disorders are of hereditary origin. 1/3 of hereditary deafness is syndromic (associated with other symptoms) and 2/3 are non-syndromic (isolated deafness). At this...

Background: Body image is one of the most important psychological factors that affects adolescents’ personality and behavior. Body image can be defined as the person’s perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about his or her body.
 Objectives: to identify the prevalence of body image concerns among secondary school students and its relation to different factors.
 Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study conducted in which 796 secondary school students participated and body shape...

Antiphospholipid syndrome is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by thrombosis and/or pregnancy morbidity in the presence of persistently positive antiphospholipid antibodies. The finding of individuals who present a clinical picture highly suggestive of antiphospholipid syndrome, but who are persistently negative for criteria of antiphospholipid antibodies has led physicians to refer to this patient population as having seronegative Antiphospholipid syndrome. We present a case of a...

How and why did the Ugandan educational system survive the political and economic instability of the dictatorial governments between 1971 and 1986?What did the school administrators do to make sure that the nation's schools survive the political turmoil?The purpose of this researcher was to determine the impact of oppressive military and political governments on schools.Secondly, the researcher wanted to determine the extent to which the school administrators acted as instructional leaders...

Background: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a female psychiatric disorder affecting the behaviour, cognitive abilities, mental health status and academic performance of female students. It includes: mood symptoms, behaviour symptoms and physical symptoms. Aim: To assess phenomenology, measure the prevalence of PMDD among university students and assess the relationship between PMDD and socio-demographic and personality characteristics. Setting: This study was conducted at Zagazig...

Some African American students with challenging early life experiences appear vulnerable to failure in higher education.This vulnerability may be exacerbated when educators fail to recognize the relationship between the life experiences of African American students and their academic performance and college success.African American students are challenged further as they attempt to successfully adjust to collegiate environments which often do not validate them or their experiences.The...

SUMMARY Well-constrained earthquake depth estimations are important for seismic hazard determination. As local networks of the East-African Rift are usually too sparse for reliable depth estimations, we used detections of pP and sP phase arrivals (the so-called depth phases) at teleseismic distance to constrain earthquake depths in this region. We rely on a fully automatic Cepstral analysis approach, first validated at the global scale using the ISC-EHB catalogue, then applied on the...

The Journal of Social Inclusion (JoSI) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that will contribute to current knowledge and understanding of the social processes that marginalise individuals, families and communities. The journal will be published bi-annually under the guidance of an International Editorial Advisory Board. The Journal of Social Inclusion (JoSI) is an initiative of the School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University.

This article analyses the struggle for disability rights in Ghana by offering a window into the lived experience of physically disabled Ghanaians in the Akyem Abuakwa traditional area of Ghana’s Eastern Region. Utilizing grassroots narratives of sixteen participants, the article focuses on the themes of financial and social support to illuminate the challenges facing disabled individuals in a peri-urban area of Southern Ghana. The analysis engages with the concept of Ubuntu, which focuses a...

Abstract Background: In the last few years, there has been a worldwide commitment to protect the vulnerable individuals from higher financial risk through out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure and provide a platform for universal access to healthcare through a pre-payment insurance mechanism. In a developing country like Uganda, OOP spending represents a significant component of health expenditure. Financial risk protection strategy for the vulnerable is always a debatable issue in these...