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Is there a perspective, a body of thought, or a particular way of doing philosophy of education, that can be called African? Are there uniquely and distinctly African ways of philosophizing about education? Are the component concepts, principles, and values of this philosophy sound? Whether or not satisfactory answers to these questions are forthcoming, the possibility and plausibility of African philosophy of education might nonetheless be established in terms of its priorities. Given the...
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For at least the past decade, political leaders and policy makers have stressed how important it is for Africa to harness technology, leapfrog development, and take part in the global knowledge economy. In numerous initiatives aimed at realizing these goals, education is a primary target, viewed as a mechanism through which information and communication technologies (ICT) can empower societies to develop technologically literate workforces. Unfortunately, there is a considerable gap between...
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In order to identify the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and to determine the impact of some factors such as age, sex and complaints related to these infections, this cross sectional study was carried out on 1000 stool specimen of primary school children in Makurdi, Benue State-Nigeria. Using direct smear and formol ether sedimentation techniques to process the faeces, 585(58.5%) of the samples were found positive for various intestinal parasites with Hookworm species...
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Library has French version: Benin : la pre-alerte agro-meteorologique pour reduire la vulnerabilite de l'agriculture aux changements climatiques; experiences du PARBCC au Benin
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Library has French version: Benin : quelles contributions des autorites politico-administratives pour l'adaptation des communautes locales face aux changements climatiques au Benin?
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Classroom assessment in sub-Saharan Africa is still largely traditional in nature with its purpose focusing on the assessment of learning rather than assessment for learning. In South Africa, education has undergone a radical transformation in its curricula in the post-apartheid era. Despite the South African curricula's progressive nature, the shift to assessment for learning remains in policy for the majority of classrooms and has not yet been transformed into practice. The recognition of...
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Agriculture is inherently sensitive to weat her and climate. Adaptation of an appropriate management strategy is one of the likely decisions to cope with the impacts of changing climate. This study was designed to explore the role of arginine (0.0, 2.5 and 5.0 mM) in increasing the tolerance of wheat cultivar (Sakha-93) to two late sowing (23/12 and 23/1) dates, beside the normal sowing date (23/11) in Egypt. A field experiment was conducted in Agricultural Research Station of National...
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There are a lot of mud diapirs and mud volcanoes in Niger delta,which appear in fuzzy zones in seismic section.The mud volcanoes are of destructive effect on the reservoir exploitation.Based on seismic stratigraphy,seismic interpretation,ocean floor relief map,time slice and coherent body slice,this paper summarizes the seismic response features,formation mechanism of mud diapers and mud volcanoes in Niger delta and their influences on hydrocarbon accumulation,which are significant to reserves evaluation in oil field.
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In Kenya,university student protests are disturbingly intensive and frequent,which have deep impacts on its development of higher education.The protests have been caused by such contradictions as follows:firstly,the contradiction between economic foundation and university expansion;secondly,the contradiction between social-democratic climate and state-authoritarian management;and thirdly,the contradiction between the characteristic,political ambition of the university students and political...
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Many international schools embrace social studies education, and service learning embedded within the social studies curriculum is often the norm rather than the exception. “These activities present a clear picture of the focus, energy, and grassroots nature of the service-learning movement that is emerging from the needs of schools and young people throughout the world. Scattered and disconnected as these efforts might currently be, it is clear that a network of international service...
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Agriculture supports up to 75% of the Kenyan population and generates almost all the country’s food requirements. However drought are the major constraints to rain-fed agricultural production, especially in arid and semi arid lands (ASALs) of Kenya which form about 88% of the country. In the last 100 years, Kenya has recorded 28 droughts, three of them in the last decade. The frequency and severity of droughts seems to be increasing in the country over time. The result has been total crop...
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In this study the authors employed multilevel analyses procedures to examine pupil, class and school levels factors that influenced pupil achievement in Kenya. Pupil's age, pupil's socioeconomic background and pupil–teacher ratio were important factors in the prediction of pupil achievement. The provinces with the largest between-school variation were Eastern and Rift Valley. Low social equity was evident in Nyanza, Nairobi and Western while large gender inequities were evident in North...
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This paper describes an evaluation of a small-scale research project seeking to ascertain the perceived benefit of 120 hours brief play therapy training program delivered to 32 qualified counselors in three regions of Kenya, East Africa. The participants, 29 female and three male represented 10 tribes, predominantly Christian with few Muslims and all worked with vulnerable children in their communities. The mean age was 41 years and they had an average of 12 years experience in the caring...
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The research aims to identify the performance of sports education teachers at secondary school in Qena governorate in the light of national standards for education in Egypt and psychological pressures faced by sports education teachers at secondary school in Qena governorate and the relationship between the performance of sports education teachers and the psychological pressures faced by physical education teachers at secondary school in Qena, in the light of national standards for education...