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This study is an attempt of the combination of multiple data sources referring to the same time period and to the same farmer population, it aims at assessing the potential impact of a cocoa Farmer Field School Training on Integrated Pest Management in Cameroon. Using a combination of a latitudinal and a longitudinal comparison, the results indicate that FFS-trained farmers have significantly more knowledge about crop husbandry practices than those in the non-participant comparison group. A...
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Private higher education in Ghana has developed rapidly since the 1990s.Under the influence of traditional culture and market change,the private higher education institutes in Ghana present some distinguished features in terms of course offerings,staffing and so on.Because private higher education institutes in Ghana are relatively young,some measures for ensuring quality has been taken,but to keep the rapid development,there are still a lot of severe challenges they would face.
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Paper presented at the PASACAP (Partnership for After-School Care Programmes) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 17-18 June
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This study’s purpose was to pair motivational orientation and ethnicity in a sample of urban African American middle school students (n = 213). Through multivariate analyses, the results revealed differences in motivational orientation between eighth graders when compared to their younger peers. The study supports the hypotheses of: a) the flexibility of motivational orientation; b) the declining interests and increased self-evaluation and satisfaction in students, and; c) the impact of...
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AbstractThis study investigated what two classes of 9th grade South African learners were capable of doing when introduced to, and presented with, a number of concept cartoons and an argumentation writing frame during their science lessons. A modified five-point Toulmin's Argumentation Programme (TAP) instrument was used to assess the levels of argumentation produced in six groups of eight grade nine learners each for the duration of the research (eight weeks). An initial investigation was...
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This thesis proposes a conceptual framework for the discussion of concepts of academic freedom and institutional autonomy in a South African higher education context. A four-cell matrix is presented at the start of the thesis that distinguishes four types of understandings of these concepts. Having discussed these concepts-in-use in different contexts, the grid is used as a framework to explicate local debates on academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Beyond the conceptual exploration,...
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Dissertation prepared in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Magister Technologiae (Quality) CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 2008
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In this paper, we review policy levers that could potentially help close the achievement gap between African-American and white high school students, and draw on the literature to glean recommendations for superintendents, principals and education policy makers. We address, in turn: Policies to recruit and train teachers; policies to improve attendance, discipline and relationships among students and adults; policies to provide additional services to students; policies to increase the types...
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Researchers investigated if early childhood teachers could become reflective practitioners when they studied culturally specific constructs within a digital collegial environment. Three female African American early childhood teachers within three different settings (a faith-based primary school, a home school, and a government-funded pre-school agency) developed mini-research projects using a mediated form of Lesson Study. Data consisted of teachers' electronic mail, application artifacts,...
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The present article analyzes how the teaching of communication ethics could prepare African journalists to develop in Africa a more independent, self-reliant response to globalization. The economic stagnation and governance without accountability are due, largely, to the failure to link citizens into a democratic national communication system. Professional journalists often do little to develop self-reliant national democracies because their training and ethics focus more on a blind...