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Contents: Introduction. Mathematics Learning, Achievement, and Persistence Among African Americans: Toward a Context-Based Perspective. Wasn't Going to Be Doing Any Math: Mathematics Socialization, Identity, and the Evolution of Community Beliefs About Mathematics. When Am I Ever Going to Use This?: School-Level Factors and Mathematics Socialization Among African-American Students. Because I Want to Be Somebody: African-American Student Narratives on Academic and Mathematics Success....
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Poverty alleviation programms are more and more presented as the present challenge for the development policies, so that the question is emerging about the contribution of urban transport sector to achieve such an aim. The analysis of experience of developing cities in Africa makes it possible to draw several conclusions, which are defined once it was acknowledged that there is a vast range of situations and that there is really no single transposable solution just as it is from one city to another.
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Developments in the South African higher education system designed to establish employability as a prominent element in good quality higher education are reviewed. A case study was carried out in three universities in South Africa, one Historically White Afrikaans, another Historically White English and the third Historically Black University. For students, employability, in the sense of post-graduation employment rates, is an important indicator of quality. Faculty deans, in principle,...
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Part of a larger ongoing study of the impact of antiracism mentoring on black student achievement, this report of a developmental study used a before-after approach to evaluate the pattern, direction, and significance of change in participating white teachers' white racial identity as a function of antiracism professional development. Using the Helms and Carter (1994) White Racial Identity Attitude Survey to verify the status of prospective white mentors' racial identities prior to their...
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This study examines the applicability and sufficiency of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in predicting intention and self-perceived behavior with respect to avoiding between-meal intake of sugared snacks and drinks. One thousand one hundred and twenty-three Tanzanian students (mean age 26.4 years) completed self-administered questionnaires designed to measure the components of the TPB during May-July, 1999. Self-perceived sugar consumption was obtained in a subsample of respondents (n =...
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Malawi opened its only medical school in April 1991, despite opposition from some who believed that the venture was a waste of precious resources. From 1986, selected Malawi students had done preclinical training in Australia, the United Kingdom and South Africa, returning to Malawi for the clinical phase of their training. From 1994, Malawi students have been able to do the whole undergraduate medical course in their own country. Twenty Malawi medical students attended the medical schools...
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There has been an increasing trend of female involvement in drug use particularly alcohol consumption in Nigeria. The present study examines prevalence as well as pattern of harmful alcohol use among female undergraduate students at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. It also documents the determinant to this harmful alcohol consumption. Five hundred and twenty-five students constituting 30.8 percent of the entirer esident female students in the university got a questionnaire consisting...
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This article results from an initiative at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), which aimed to involve teachers actively in the guidance of student teachers during the Teaching Practice component of a teacher education programme. The article argues that the mentoring of pre-service teachers by in-service teachers forms a potentially powerful form of teacher development, and links the aims of the UWC initiative to theories of teacher development located within the realm of critical...
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Cet article decrit l'histoire des classes de maternelle en hebreu entre 1899, date de creation de la premiere classe de maternelle et le debut des annees 20, periode coincidant avec l'occupation britannique en Palestine. Cette periode constitue un chapitre important de l'histoire de l'education en hebreu puisqu'elle marque le debut d'une consolidation des institutions scolaires et de l'organisation du systeme educatif en Palestine. L'auteur discute en particulier de la lutte pour la...
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The high incidence of accidents and fatalities in the South African mining industry, in particular those associated with falls of ground, is often attributed to ineffective and/or inappropriate training methods and material. Recently introduced mine health and safety legislation in South Africa also requires that all mine workers receive appropriate and effective training to enable them to operate safely in their given mining environment. There can, therefore, be no doubt that methods to...
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Abstract This paper arises from a study of final-year Botswanan junior and senior secondary school students' perceptions of the education/employment nexus through the generation of peer reference groups and the soliciting of career aspirations and income expectations. It was found that students generally had accurate perceptions of post-school prospects. There was an overwhelming desire at both levels to pursue tertiary education and training and enter secure professions which it is argued...