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Roots & Shoots and Wildlife Clubs of Uganda are two prominent environmental education programs that have encouraged East African youth to advocate for their communities and ecology. The programs promote positive attitudes and self-determination through service learning. This pedagogical approach motivates youth to solve environmental problems and champion community-centered conservation and sustainable development initiatives. Using survey-based measures, open-ended questions, and...
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In North Carolina, women represent the largest number of teachers and a large percentage of building and district level administrators, but remain underrepresented in the superintendent position. The African American female’s presence in the top administrative position is almost non-existent. Nationally the situation is quite similar. In order to begin to understand the phenomenon of African American women missing in action from the superintendent role in North Carolina public schools, it is...
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An international association advancing the multidisciplinary study of informing systems. Founded in 1998, the Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a global community of academics shaping the future of informing science.
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In the southern part of Congo-Brazzaville, and particularly in the Niari area, the local populations were very affected by the successive wars of the 1990s and by the disengagement of the State. The education system was not spared. If the State has recently started to seek to establish a new form of “national unity” in the southwest of Congo, its intentions are not devoid of political motivations, even if such policy has had the advantage to bring the region to the fore. But there are still...
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As Australia becomes increasingly multicultural, there are many that would argue that the teaching and learning of music at educational settings can be carried out in a number of ways where cultural context and authenticity is imperative. This paper discusses the main arguments of teaching and learning in music education and provides some theoretical perspectives of teaching African music as groundwork for the discussion and findings. This paper is part of a wider study called 'Smaller steps...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the perceptions of academic staff relating to the sufficiency of grievance procedures in dealing with complaints of sexual harassment at higher education institutions in South Africa. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 161 academic staff members at different higher education institutions. The Sexual Harassment Questionnaire was administered. The results show a positive correlation between confidence in the grievance procedure, the amount of...
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On September 23,2009,the Forum of Basic Education in Africa and Developing Countries was hosted by the Institute of Educational Science Studies,Zhejiang Normal University.The forum discussed the following topics: the development,experience and problems in basic education in Asia,Africa and Latin America;the model of reform on developing countries' education in the context of post-colonialism;the reforms and development in basic education in Cameroon,South Africa,Kenya,Mauritius,and Sino-Africa educational cooperation as well.
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ABSTRACT strategic responses are the set of decisions and actions that result in the formulationand implementation of plans designed to achieve a firm’s objectives. It is thus a reaction to what ishappening in the organization’s environment as part of competitive strategies that organizationsdevelop in defining their goals and policies. The external environment is the set of variables as inthe PEST analysis that is political, economic, social and technological. The social dimensioncaptures...