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Abstract The ‘teacher as researcher’ movement highlights the concept of ‘teacher as researcher’ and claims a key role for teachers in the production of knowledge about teaching. It constitutes teaching as an inquiring process, and as a powerful context and practice for professional development. This paper explores the potential of the teacher as researcher movement for the professional development of mathematics teachers in South Africa. It argues that themovement has particular historical...
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The use of computers in the health sector has increased significantly during the last few years in Nigeria. This paper addresses the integration of health and informatics education, or health education and informatics education, or informatics education in health care delivery. It gives an introduction to the status of a health informatics programme in the daily practice of computer use. The essence of a health informatics curriculum, the planning and administration of the programme in...
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Among 2460 secondary school students surveyed in two southeastern Nigerian states only 36% could correctly identify the most likely time for conception to occur. Female students were considerably more likely than males to understand the timing of conception (46% vs. 25%); less dramatic differences emerged by students residence and grade in school. Among students who supplied information about their sexual activity 40% had had intercourse; the proportion who were sexually experienced climbed...
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Theatre for Reconciliation: Desire and South African Students Hazel Barnes (bio) It is imperative that the first democratically elected government in South Africa enable South Africans to come to terms with the injustice of their past. Such is the enormity of the impact of apartheid policies that the present government cannot grant individual and specific compensation to all. Instead, its representatives have created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a site and a vehicle for bearing...
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This paper reports findings from a qualitative study of the nature of teachers' connections with their African American students. It is based on three rounds of interviews with six African American women teachers who had used the social justice curriculum Facing History and Ourselves. The teachers ranged in age from the mid-twenties to the mid-fifties, and had between 2 and 23 years of classroom teaching experience. All had taught in urban junior and senior high schools, and three were...
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The provision of appropriate water, sanitation, and hygiene education, especially in schools, is very weak in some areas of South Africa. Inadequate education is one of the biggest obstacles to providing sufficient water in the country. The South African Hygiene Education Project (SASHEP) will be implemented during 1996-98 with the goal of developing a child-oriented sanitation and hygiene education curriculum informed by the perceptions of children and adolescents in primary schools. In the...
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A ZBTE article on the importance of an educational system tailor made for the convenience of deaf children in Zimbabwe.
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A ZBTE article on the need to revamp the O-level Mathematics curriculum in Zimbabwe to make it more balanced between intuitive thinking and analytical thinking in Mathematics.
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Education is about teaching and learning. This is the case at school level. At the center of learning are pupils. The effectiveness of education is measured in terms of the amount of learning acquired by the pupils. In any society children go to school to acquire academic skills. At primary school level, children go to school to learn reading, writing and mathematics. At secondary level children go to school to acquire academic skills based on various subjects broadly categorized as...
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Abstract Data from 119 African American low-income mothers of school aged children in Oakland, California show that 38% engaged in behavior that might place them at risk of exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Risk behaviors that were investigated included having multiple partners and having a partner with an incarceration history. Of women studied, 23% were at risk because of multiple partners, while 15% were at risk as a result of having had an incarcerated partner. Women...
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The motivation to learn of African American high school students was examined by asking them about their favorite and least favorite classes. Two hundred and seventy-five students attending three urban high schools were randomly selected from their history classes to respond to a questionnaire on their perceptions of ability, goals, and reasons for disliking their least favorite class. There was a positive motivational pattern reported for their favorite classes. The students scored high on...
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South African Journal of EconomicsVolume 65, Issue 1 p. 48-55 Returns to Education in Tie Manufacturing Sector in Zimbabwe: Some Empirical Evidence. TEKALIGNE GODANA, TEKALIGNE GODANA Professor of Economics, Universitv of Zimbabwe, Harare. The author would like to thank Rob Davies and Gene Grossman for their detailed comments on an earlier draft. He is also grateful to two referees for their valuable comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies.Search for more papers by this author...