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Increasingly, developmental psychology has emphasized that childhood career development should be viewed as holistic and comprise all aspects of a child’s maturation. This would include an emphasis on the career development of children which is considered vital to the complete education of the child (Brown, 2002). Career development refers to the process of developing beliefs, values, skills, aptitudes, interests, personality characteristics and knowledge of work (Zunker, 2006). Research has...
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de s p i t e the fact that Libya and Malaysia are located in different regions of the world, both countries have several ports which operate in similar environments. Malaysian ports have grown quickly since the end of the 1980s, to emerge as efficient, effective and productive. Libya’s government has developed the ambitious objective for its port sector of increasing container throughput in the country’s ports and to participate in the competition to become one of the hub container ports in...
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Impacts of climate change vary from region to region. The 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentions that drier areas will be affected by more droughts while the rainfall regime, in general, will become 'rougher'. In West Africa, specifically the area below the Sahel, the climate change signal may be more subtle. Anecdotal evidence from farmers suggests that the onset of rainy season has been shifting forward in time over the past two generations....
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The European Report on Development (ERD) is the main outcome of the Mobilising European research for development policies, an initiative promoted and financed by the European Commission together with seven EU Member States: Germany, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The aim of this initiative is to help the European Union refine its vision of development and enrich its policies on the basis of knowledge, innovation, and the building of common ground between...
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Child labour remains an enormous challenge to the achievement of Education For All in developing countries. This paper explores the subject of child labour in Kenya in the context of the national and global push towards Education For All. Based on a year's ethnography of a poor community in Kiambu district in Kenya, the paper explores the tension between child labour and schooling using the language of capabilities. The capability approach focuses on the freedoms that people have to live the...
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Authors Florence Glanfield, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Elaine Simmt, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Joyce Mgombelo, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada Dawn Wiseman, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Anjum Halai, The Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development (Eastern Africa), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Iddi Makombe, Mzumbe University, Mzumbe, Tanzania Dominik Msabila, Mzumbe University, Mzumbe, Tanzania Athanas Ngalawa, Mzumbe University,...
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Little is known in developing country environments about how a child's cognitive skills manifested in the first years of schooling are related to later educational success, because the panel data needed to analyze this question have been lacking. This study takes advantage of a unique data set from Senegal that combines test score data for children from the second grade with information on their subsequent school progression from a follow-up survey conducted seven years later. Measures of...