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The provision of toilets and menstrual supplies appears to be a promising strategy to promote adolescent girls’ school attendance and performance in less developed countries. In this article, we use the first round of the Malawi Schooling and Adolescent Survey (MSAS) to examine the individual- and school-level factors associated with menstruation-related school absenteeism. Although one-third of female students reported missing at least 1 day of school during their previous menstrual period,...
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South Africa’s democratic transition was a time of optimism, with immense hopes pinned on the youth who would be educated to see themselves as equal citizens. It was also a time of pragmatic decision making, not least in the education sector, which would shape the future of the country. Negotiating the imperatives of redress, development, and equality set in train many contradictory pressures within the education sector, within which teachers were tasked with instilling ideals of equality...
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We examined the association between two individual differences (race-based rejection sensitivity and social constraints in talking about racism with family, friends, and/or intimate partners) and psychological reactions to an incident of racial discrimination. Participants were 551 African American undergraduates from either a predominantly white university (PWU) or a historically black university (HBU). Race-based rejection sensitivity (RS-Race) predicted higher negative affect and lower...
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"Response to discussion paper: thoughts on the state of Family Medicine training in South Africa." South African Family Practice, 55(3), pp. 211–212
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Lesotho has, amongst other strategies, implemented an HIV/AIDS prevention programme that sought to enmesh HIV/AIDS content into the school curriculum. It is however, not clearly stated that teachers, deemed to play a pivotal role in respect of implementation of the programme, were adequately prepared, trained and convinced to make what seems to be a selfless and necessary contribution, that is, effectively implementing the prevention programme. Data were collected using mixed methods....
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsNubar HovsepianNubar Hovsepian is an associate professor of political science/international studies at Chapman University, Orange, California, and is the author of Palestinian State Formation: Education and the Construction of National Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
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Stress field inversion is performed in Egypt on the basis of 219 focal mechanism solutions in the period from 1955 to 2007. For this purpose Egypt is divided into six seismotectonic zones: the northern part of the Gulf of Suez, southern Gulf of Suez, and Gulf of Aqaba, Cairo-Suez district, Dahshour zone and the Aswan Zone. The entire Gulf of Suez is currently under extensional stress field, with NE–SW trending horizontal extension. In the Gulf of Aqaba, the strike-slip regime predominates...
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Abstract This study uses the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and downscaled climate projections from the ensemble of two global climate models (ECHAM4 and CSIRO) forced by the A1FI greenhouse-gas scenario to estimate the impact of climate change on streamflow in the White Volta and Pra river basins, Ghana. The SWAT model was calibrated for the two basins and subsequently driven by downscaled future climate projections to estimate the streamflow for the 2020s (2006–2035) and 2050s...
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This paper critically examines conceptual and policy issues relating to lifelong learning in South Africa. It raises key questions on the country's National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and whether it can serve as a veritable tool for addressing the learning needs of different and diverse learners. A theoretical framework that encompasses pedagogy, andragogy and heutagogy is outlined and used to interrogate the underlying assumptions and limited scope of the NQF. The paper's major claim is...
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Our purpose in this paper is to foreground contextual issues in studies of situated writing practices. During a year-long case study in a rural Kenyan secondary school, we applied a number of ethnographic techniques to document how 32 girls (aged 14-18 years) used local cultural and digital resources (i.e., donated digital cameras, voice recorders, and laptops with connectivity)within the context of their after-school journalism club. We take inspiration broadly from the concept of liminal...
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The proportion of U.K. medical students applying for psychiatry training continues to decline, whereas, in Somaliland, there are no public-sector psychiatrists. This pilot study assessed the usefulness and feasibility of online, instant messenger, peer-to-peer exchange for psychiatry education between cultures.Twenty medical students from King's College, London, and Hargeisa University (Somaliland) met online in pairs every 2 weeks to discuss prearranged psychiatric topics, clinical cases,...
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The current paper proposes a heuristic instructional system design model (ISD) for designing online courses. The main goal of ISD model is to organize the process of designing effective online courses or self-study materials for both higher education and K-12. The current paper proposes a heuristic instructional system model based on Kemp's model; ASSURE Model, and Keller's model, in addition to using the LORI instrument to evaluate the quality of the learning objects. Designing...