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Abstract Paleomagnetic measurements on samples of late Precambrian-early Paleozoic volcanic and intrusive rocks of the Egyptian Eastern Desert show a variety of magnetic components. A stable, hematite-carried direction from the Dokhan Volcanic Formation indicates an age of about 680 Ma if the magnetization is primary and was acquired prior to structural tilting, or an age of about 500–550 Ma if it post-dates tilting. Several lines of evidence led us to prefer the latter interpretation. A...
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Development, as the word suggests, is a positive and productive improvement on an existing structure. Or, in sociological terms, it is a sort of social change during which the achievements (in terms of wealth) and income of any given society markedly increase - with this increase reflected in higher average incomes for the families and persons within that society. This social change is a result of (or is often activated by) some changes in the political, economic and ideological framework of...
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The background to the establishment of the Department of Library Studies, University of Botswana, is described. Details are provided of the Department's Certificate, Diploma and postgraduate programmes and information about the various countries in Southern, Central and Eastern Africa which regularly send students to the Department. A long vacation 'Summer School'-type programme is offered for librarians from the region.
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This thesis investigates the role of rural primary school teachers in community development activities within an integrated rural education centres project (IRECs) in southern Sudan. The study explores five areas of importance for an extended teacher's role in rural areas: (i) the school or community environment, (ii) community perception of the teacher's role and its expectations of the school, (iii) teachers' perception of their own role in the community, (iv) teachers' satisfaction and...
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This chapter elaborates incorporation of small-scale industry and technology concepts in the curriculum of junior secondary schools in Nigeria. Secondary schools in Nigeria now offer both literary and technical subjects to all students. Junior secondary schools provide 3-year courses in which prevocational subjects are taught together with regular subjects. In senior secondary schools the 3-year courses provide some specialization either in academic-type or in vocational subjects. The focus...
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Applied anthropologists are engaging in evaluation research in increasing numbers these days. As we join the ranks of those who have been conducting program evaluation for years, we find ourselves confronted with a typical evaluator's problem: how can we guarantee that our evaluation results will ever actually be considered in program planning? Some program managers, of course, are only interested in an evaluation when it is required by a funding source. Expecting programs of this sort to...
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Abstract The study reports on the social origin of student teachers in Nigerian Universities. To this end a representative sample of 578 Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) students randomly selected from three representative Nigerian Universities were surveyed during the 1982/83 academic year. The major finding is that there is a preponderance of students from low social class background amongst the recruits into teacher education programme in Nigeria. This finding is consistent with reviewed...
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This is a study of specific aspects of classroom interaction primary school level in Kenya. The study entailed the identification of the sources of particular communication problems during the change-over period from Kiswahili to English medium teaching in two primary schools. There was subsequently an examination of the language resources which were employed by teachers to maintain pupil participation in communication in the light of the occurrence of possibility of occurrence of specific...