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This study investigated the relationship between masculinities, cultural worldviews and societal risk perceptions in a sample of adolescent school-going boys in South Africa. Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity and cultural theory of risk provided the theoretical frameworks for this study. The findings showed that males conforming to the traditional masculinity type were more likely to endorse a hierarchical and individualist worldview. They were also less concerned about the impact of...
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abstract To explore the love-money-power-gender labyrinth, we conducted 10 in-depth interviews with students involved in sugar daddy relationships for conspicuous consumption on an urban university campus in South Africa. We had anticipated that these relationships were not devoid of love and that girls would carve out moments of agency within power dynamics that favoured sugar daddies. However, the students exerted degrees of agency in all phases of the sugar daddy relationship and despite...
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The study is a descriptive survey done at Mpolonjeni ADP which is a representative sample for the project as it is affected by climate change and variability. This is evident as there is high level of food insecurity, crop failure, poverty and hunger Mpolonjeni ADP. The increased involvement of food relief agencies nearly on an annual basis is a clear indication that agricultural production, the mainstay of the areas has drastically fallen, and households’ livelihoods are at risk. The...
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Human resource for health (HRH) is an essential building block for effective and efficient health care system. In Tanzania this component is faced by many challenges which in synergy with others make the health care system inefficient. In vision 2025 the country recognizes the importance of the health care sector in attaining quality livelihood for its citizens. The vision is in its 13th year since its launch. Given the central role of HRH in attainment of this vision, how the HRH is trained...
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Energy poverty – lack of access to electricity and dependence on traditional fuels for cooking and heating – afflicts billions of people globally. For these communities, the search for energy fuels and services is an arduous, daily grind. Small-scale, off-grid renewable energy technologies such as solar home lighting kits (SHLKs) offer the ability to generate electricity and provide reliable energy services. This study explores a national program in Papua New Guinea (PNG) intended to...
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The study examined the materials and the instructional approaches employed by secondary school teachers and students in the teaching and learning of Kiswahili oral literature in Marakwet District, Kenya. The need for the study was based on the fact that undertaking the new task of teaching/learning Kiswahili oral literature, whose syllabus was introduced by the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) in 2002, is likely to be faced with challenges. The study was based on Gagne's conditions of...
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This article examines the role of theatrical performance as a means of addressing the embodied and spatio-temporal manifestations of race and racism within South African higher education. As part of Jansen's proposal for a post-conflict pedagogy in South Africa, the article argues for the development and inclusion of embodied knowledges as an appropriate means of addressing issues of diversity and social transformation on South African campuses. Through a case study of one theatrical...
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The increasing gap between what students learn and what they remember has agitated the minds of educators in recent times. The apparent gap is that teaching tends to be more theoretical than practical. For instance an apparent absence of relevant instructional materials, skilled vocational education personnel and the current lack of awareness on the part of policy makers on the advantages of pragmatic education, constitute current obstacles to the actualisation of pragmatic student-oriented...
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With the aim to identify and document gaps and good practices for enhancing graduate employability, what private universities doing in Ethiopia and the associated macro environment were assessed with mixed approaches, using qualitative and quantitative data collection. Methods included: an extensive review of literature, examination of official documents and key informant interview at five institutions selected for case study. Document survey results show that since the second half of the...
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Childhood vaccination is one of the most important public health interventions, preventing two to three million deaths worldwide every year. Successful immunisation depends on the attitudes of mothers towards vaccination. The Somali community in Birmingham in the UK represents a significant proportion of a growing black African population which has the lowest levels of preschool immunisation. There is no evidence about perceptions of preschool immunisation among Somalis in Birmingham....
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The waltzing guinea pig may be a good model to investigate if genetic factor can change the sensitivity in noise-induced hearing loss. A total of 34 waltzig guinea pigs were studied and we found that there is no any significant increased sensitivity to noise trauma if the age-induced hearing loss was considered in waltzing guinea pig.
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Learners with disabilities do not only incur various challenges in their learning encounters, but their presence also places a heavy burden and demands on institutions of higher education that practice inclusive education system. Disability in any form or shape is a phenomenon that incurs social, emotional and learning problems. This study sought to investigate the psychosocial challenges and socio-economic backgrounds of learners with disabilities at the University of Venda in the Limpopo...
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<h3>Aims</h3> The effective treatment of acutely sick children in resource-poor settings (including teaching hospitals in most developing countries) is limited by resources, but also by knowledge, skills and attitudes. Introducing rigorously-assessed, multidisciplinary training in paediatric life support may help address these issues, but there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of this approach. As part of a Zambia-UK Health Link, we carried out a needs assessment at the Zambian...
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This article is framed within the global context of immigration and the resultant debates around citizenship, belonging, inclusion and exclusion. The task of schools as social institutions is to ‘integrate’ and ‘educate’ immigrant youth and as such they can be seen as the primary sites where the politics of belonging and struggles over belonging and citizenship are waged. Drawing on the conceptual framework of ‘youthscapes’ and the theoretical framework of critical race theory, this article...