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To transform education in this country, South African teachers need to be appropriately equipped to meet the evolving challenges and needs of the country. The national policy framework for teacher education and development is an attempt to address the need for suitably qualified teachers in South Africa. Its aim is to improve the quality of education by focusing on the professional development of teachers. This article attempts to address the following research problem: Does continuing...
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In the era of decolonization that prevailed in much of the colonial world after World War Two, white South Africans strengthened existing segregationist legislation in an attempt to ensure the continuation of white rule over the country. White support for racist policies found its clearest expression in electoral support for Dr D.F. Malan’s National Party (NP) who contested the 1948 elections on the basis of their apartheid policy. This policy, which was a radical intensification of existing...
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This study seeks to explore factors that facilitated or constrained the implementation of inclusive education in one Eastern Cape district, examining particularly how these factors affected implementation.
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AbstractResearch has found that teaching practices are a critical factor in promoting student achievement in mathematics and may therefore explain a substantial portion of the variance in student learning and achievement. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between student achievement in mathematics and teachers' teaching practices in the Maseru District in Lesotho, Southern Africa. A self-report instrument—Mathematics Teaching Opinionate Scale (MaTOS)—was used to collect...
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Government, the economy, civil society and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) face huge challenges responding to poverty, unemployment, and skills development needs. Considering the historical background of South Africa, educational interventions, particularly for the previously disadvantaged ‘non-White’ adult population, have proved to be an effective strategy in the fight against poverty and inequality inherited from Apartheid. The author’s PhD dissertation included the development of a...
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Its purpose is to strengthen open, distance and flexible learning (ODFL) systems and structures to increase access to education for young people living in high HIV prevalence areas in Malawi and Lesotho.It seeks to achieve this through developing a new, more flexible model of education that uses ODFL to complement and enrich conventional schooling.It also seeks to encourage application of the new knowledge generated through effective communication to development agencies, governments,...
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This thesis explores the commonalities and differences of the lived experience of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Kampala, Uganda. The endeavor of this study has been to create new references for understanding the lived experience of the embodied selves of PWDs. The thesis has identified various barriers and opportunities to participation for persons with visual and walking impairments in the mainstream society. Secondly, it has assessed how various agents at different levels of the...
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Processes of decentralization accompanied by electoral gender quotas have in many African countries increased women's opportunities for political participation at local level. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate to what extent the increased number of female councillors has resulted in women obtaining an efficient participation in the municipal councils. I have conducted a Minor Field Study in Burkina Faso, where I have conducted interviews with female and male councillors and conducted...
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Concentrations of major, trace, and volatile elements are reported for olivine-hosted glass inclusions from intraplate-type, nepheline-normative trachybasaltic to basanitic scoria samples representing five historical eruptions (1954, 1959, 1982, 1999, and 2000) of Mount Cameroon (4.20°N, 9.17°E). Bulk-rock and mineral compositions are also reported for the same scoria samples and for lava samples from the same eruptions. Mineral analyses are also presented for a spinel–harzburgite mantle...
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Summary Inadequate knowledge of medication use may directly lead to misuse by community and/or patients’ non compliance with a drug regimen and results in serious outcomes like adverse drug reaction and reduction of the quality of treatment. Thus this study intended to assess knowledge, attitude and practices toward medication use of freshman students of University of Gondar. A cross sectional study was undertaken on 400 freshman students of University of Gondar in May 2007. The sample was...
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Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries consider understanding skills and concepts of ICT and mastering it as essential element of education process, alongside reading and writing. Within the past decade, the new ICT tools have fundamentally produced significant transformations in industry, agriculture, medicine, business, engineering and other fields. They also have the potential...
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The experiment on the growth adaptability of three tree species namely Acacia karoo,Acacia nilotica,Albizia adiolutica subordinating to Mimosaceae introduced from dry-hot adversity in South Africa to Yunnan indicated different situations of the growth and conservation in diverse experimental sites.In three sites,these three species were same as Acacia plants but Acacia karoo's growth was advantage over other 2 species,the growth of Albizia adiolutica was all poor in three sites.In...