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Abstract Responding to signs of increasing racial tension across the United States, in the spring of 1997, undergraduate communication majors at Loyola University Chicago initiated and organized a campaign on “African‐Americans and Higher Education.” Bitzer's (1968) construct of the rhetorical situation served as an organizing tool for the student planners and here provides the frame for a case study of the project. In the case study, communication undergraduates applied their understanding...

The majority of learners in South African schools are black, and they learn through English as a second language (L2). This contrasts with white students who learn through their first language (L1), English or Afrikaans. Most black students in South Africa are multilingual, and new developments in the curriculum promise to value this achievement. Even now, young black students display considerable competence in their written English when they use electronic links to communicate with fellow...

Abstract Business schools in developing countries face a dilemma: How can they meet world educational standards and still serve local needs? Ghana, like most other African countries, uses the British system of higher education. Unfortunately, this system does not address the service needs of a fledgling free market economy. Using Ghana as a case study, this article addresses the actual versus the requisite role of African business schools. Successful implementation of the suggestions in the...

That educational inputs should be important determinants of educational outcomes is a proposition that appeals to common sense, but is nevertheless controversial in the literature both for developed and lessdeveloped countries. Surveys by Hanushek (1986), for developed countries, and (1996), for developing countries, argue that school facilities have at best tenuous effects on outcomes, particularly on test scores. Kremer (1996), emphasizes that such a negative overall assessment of the...

Abstract Though making up more than 12% of the U.S. population, African Americans own only 3% of the small businesses. Given the rapidly changing demographics in the United States, this group must increase its rate of enterprise creation if the job-creating flow of business start-ups is to continue. This study examines the attitudes of African American students toward entrepreneurship education in a southeastern, historically Black university. The results reveal different levels of student...

AbstractThis article is a narrative about an English/American, school-basal occupational therapists volunteer activity in an all black farm school in South Africa. It describes how she balances her experience and practice in an international school compared to a farm school and comes to terms with using non-scientific methods to provide intervention.

Abstract During the last two decades the concept of Teachers' Resource Centres (TRCs) has become widely accepted across Southern Africa as an essential ingredient of a professional support structure for teachers and schools. This paper demonstrates that the present general consensus conceals a history of conflicting interpretations regarding the structure and functioning of this provision in relation to educational change. Tracing the ups and downs of TRCs and their related structures of...

ABSTRACT: Asthma, a chronic disease of the respiratory tract, affects approximately five percent of the U.S. population, including almost five million children. Childhood asthma has been identified as the leading cause of school absences. This study was to examined efficacy of a school‐based program to prevent exacerbation of asthma symptoms and manage asthma in school children using measured doses of an inhaled anti‐inflammatory medication. The sample consisted of 22 African‐American...

We whose names are underwritten, do assure the World, that the poems in the following Page, were (as we verily believe,) written by phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa. […] She has been examined by some of the best Judges, and is thought qualified to write them. Attestation in Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral The poems written by this young negro bear no endemial marks of solar fire or...

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Many assumptions have been made about the nature and character of desertification in West Africa.This paper examines the history of this issue, reviews the current state of our knowledge concerning the meteorological aspects of desertification, and presents the results of a select group of analyses related to this question.The common notion of desertification is of an advancing "desert," a generally irreversible anthropogenic process.This process has been linked to increased surface albedo,...

Many assumptions have been made about the nature and character of desertification in West Africa.This paper examines the history of this issue, reviews the current state of our knowledge concerning the meteorological aspects of desertification, and presents the results of a select group of analyses related to this question.The common notion of desertification is of an advancing "desert," a generally irreversible anthropogenic process.This process has been linked to increased surface albedo,...

Many assumptions have been made about the nature and character of desertification in West Africa.This paper examines the history of this issue, reviews the current state of our knowledge concerning the meteorological aspects of desertification, and presents the results of a select group of analyses related to this question.The common notion of desertification is of an advancing "desert," a generally irreversible anthropogenic process.This process has been linked to increased surface albedo,...

Many assumptions have been made about the nature and character of desertification in West Africa.This paper examines the history of this issue, reviews the current state of our knowledge concerning the meteorological aspects of desertification, and presents the results of a select group of analyses related to this question.The common notion of desertification is of an advancing "desert," a generally irreversible anthropogenic process.This process has been linked to increased surface albedo,...

This survey was undertaken to determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in a group of urban adults in Ibadan, Nigeria. A total of 998 subjects randomly selected from five main ministries and departments in the Government Secretariat participated in the survey. Each subject was asked to fast overnight and ingested 75 g of glucose dissolved in 250 mL of water after answering a questionnaire. Relevant anthropometric measurements such as weight, height, waist...

This paper investigates the claims of action research as an appropriate research methodology for investigating West African education. It suggests that since action research is sensitive to context and is directly relevant to practitioners, it might avoid some of the criticisms that have been levelled at some other methodologies. However, data from Ghana are used to problematize this position. The paper concludes with a discussion of ways in which collaboration between academics and...