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Babette Never, Knowledge Systems and Change in Climate Governance: Comparing India and South Africa, Routledge, Oxon and New York, 2015, 217 pp., ₹7068 (Hardcover).

Participation in economic activities and the adoption of coping strategies have gender dimension owing to environmental and socio-economic factors. This paper, therefore, examines gender and agricultural adaptation strategies to climate change in Kogi, Kaduna and Sokoto States as case studies from the savanna eco-climatic belts of Nigeria. A Sample size of 482, broken into 99, 149 and 234 for Kogi, Kaduna and Sokoto States respectively, based on household sizes, was used in this study....

This paper explores essays from three secondary schools in Moshi Municipality to determine the evidence of language transfer. The study was guided by Selinker’s interlanguage theory. The study involved two classes in each school; the classes were Form Three and Form Four. The essays were analyzed and instances of transfer counted using content analysis and were arranged according to their pattern, namely word order transfer, article deletion, pronoun redundant and subject omission .

Special education is aimed at providing a wide range of services to enable children who need special assistance, logistics and teaching methods to participate in the educational system.  Special schools perform these functions by providing children with disabilities the support they need to participate in teaching and learning.  This study investigated the state of special schools in Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions of Ghana. The aim was to assess conditions in the schools, from the...

EFL learners tend to use different communication strategies (CS) in the course of speaking in order to cope with communication breakdowns. This study aims at discovering CS use among EFL learners following the Oral Communication Strategy Inventory (OCSI) developed by Nakatani (2006). The OCSI is 58 items self-reporting questionnaire. It includes eight categories of strategies for coping with speaking problems and seven categories of strategies for coping with listening problems. It is used...

Nigeria since independence has been facing a lot of problems.These problems cut across economic, social, political, cultural and moral spheres.Thus, political instability, religious and community conflicts, crisis, economic underdevelopment, cultural misdirection, poverty, moral decadence and many other vices become the order of the day.It was for these reasons that the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Policy on Education ( 2004) institutionalized the teaching of Business...

This article addresses the inclusion of students with disabilities into the Education for All and Sustainable Development Goals agenda through a case study of Ethiopia, a country aiming to promote inclusive education amidst rapidly rising school enrolments. The article begins with a review of debates concerning inclusive education in the Global South and the strategy taken by Ethiopia. It then examines how inclusive education is currently being implemented drawing on recent fieldwork at...

Adolescents and childhood overweight and obesity have been observed as one of the serious public health challenges of the 21st century by World Health Organization. This study identified the determinants of overweight and obesity among adolescents in public schools in Kwara state, Nigeria. Multistage and stratified sampling techniques were used to randomly select 515 participants which comprised of 343 girls and 172 boys aged (10-19) years in 8 public secondary schools from 32 schools in 2...

This chapter focuses on key theoretical concepts in the sociopolitical practice perspective to view language use in the micro- and macro-level contexts of mathematics education are drawn from the work of the critical linguist Norman Fairclough. From Fairclough's perspective the macro-level context of mathematics education can be viewed as a network of social practices. Fairclough provides three concepts called discourse, genre and style for describing language use in a practice, with...

Education brings about awareness and increases opportunities for growth and development. On the individual level, education brings about economic opportunities and improves individual standard of living. On the aggregate level, education improves labour skills leading to increase in productivity and overall standard of living. The present study employed the Johanson Cointegration Test and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to investigate the relationship between education and standard of...

Background: Antimicrobial stewardship is currently not mandatory as part of the undergraduate training of pharmacists. Identifying gaps in knowledge and a better understanding of pharmacy students’ perceptions about antimicrobial stewardship could assist in recommendations for appropriate changes to the pharmacy degree curricula that may lead to more appropriate use of antimicrobials, within the multi-disciplinary team. Methods: A descriptive quantitative study with a survey design was...

Meaningful and emancipatory education which empowers citizens as democrats is the ideal education which can propel the socio-economic and political fibre of nay nation-state. After independence, Botswana aligned her education system with the envisioned development process. The sad thing about this ambitious approach in Botswana is that it sought to produce citizens who would pragmatically be engaged in the development of a democratic nation-state yet the pedagogically approaches to education...

Background. Sub-Saharan Africa has a greater share of the global burden of disease, poverty, and inadequate human resources for health compared with other regions of the world. Botswana, as other regional countries, is failing to successfully recruit and retain academics at its medical school. Objectives. To document the medical school’s staff recruitment and retention trends and challenges, and to propose possible solutions. Methods. This was a descriptive research study involving review...

Policies play a critical role in the implementation of open, distance education and opening up higher education. To encourage participation of different stakeholders in related practices, policies may need to embody values and benefits for those stakeholders. It is in this perspective that this study was conducted to investigate the policy environment for opening up public higher education in Rwanda. An interview was conducted with a leader/policy maker at the University of Rwanda and three...

Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to chronic stressors during adolescence that impact their description of challenges and successes in...