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Our Future Parents B. Inko-Tariah Nigeria: Education Associates, 1996. pp. 124. npg (pb). Health and Children's Education B. Inko-Tariah Nigeria: Education Associates, 1998. pp. 76. npg (pb). - Volume 5 Issue 2
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsE. James FloluE. James Flolu teaches music education at the University College of Education of Winneba, Ghana.
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Research Article| May 01, 2000 Origin of the 17 July 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami: Earthquake or Landslide Eric L. Geist Eric L. Geist U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Seismological Research Letters (2000) 71 (3): 344–351. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.71.3.344 Article history first online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools...
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The purpose of this study is to determine how parents influence African American students' decisions to prepare for vocational teaching careers. Qualitative methodology addresses the research objectives. Twelve African American college students were interviewed to determine how parents influenced them to prepare for vocational teaching careers and specific vocational concentrations. The following five influences emerged: (a) desire to imitate parents' altruistic behavior and role as...
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The purpose of this investigation was to develop an understanding of how African American mothers living in an urban setting in the South (a) viewed their children’s language development and (b) structured their children’s language-learning environment in general. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six African American mothers of low socioeco-nomic status (SES) and six African American mothers of middle SES as part of a larger study. Three themes emerged from the analysis of the...
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The purpose of this article is to provide a review of research and theory focusing on factors that have been cited as contributing to the retention and graduation of African-American students attending predominantly White institutions. The authors use recommendations cited in the literature to develop a model for predominantly White institutions to provide African-American students with positive learning experiences. While African-American students are the primary focus of this discussion,...
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Next article No AccessThe Effects of Primary School Quality on School Dropout among Kenyan Girls and BoysCynthia B. Lloyd, Barbara S. Mensch, and Wesley H. ClarkCynthia B. Lloyd Search for more articles by this author , Barbara S. Mensch Search for more articles by this author , and Wesley H. Clark Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint...
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An overarching concern of external agencies working in an educational context in developing countries is that of sustainability, that is, the degree to which change is embedded in practice once the agency has left. As consultants working with advisory teachers (ATs) in Lesotho our contention is that to be sustainable, change in ATs' practice should be a product of their thinking rather than an uncritical adoption of western practice. To understand the impact of our work on sustainability we...
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This paper reviews the historical development of agricultural education and training in Ethiopian institutions of higher learning. The review reveals that high level training in agriculture, which began in the early 1950s, has grown over the years. Today, the country has seven institutions of higher learning which train students in agriculture and related fields. The study shows that a host of factors, however, have put a stranglehold on the training process and the professional competence...
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The global phenomenon called globalization frequently offers justifications for socio-economic and political actions aimed at bringing rapidly into fruition the ‘Global Village’ which Marshall McLuhan had anticipated decades ago. Both the 1972 UNESCO sponsored Commission Report chaired by Edgar Faure and that of 1996 chaired by Jacques Delors produced important documents which, as at other times, reviewed issues and priorities in education worldwide, in spite of the obvious extreme diversity...
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Family/School Inequality and African-American/Hispanic Achievement Get access Vincent J. Roscigno Vincent J. Roscigno The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 47, Issue 2, 1 May 2000, Pages 266–290, https://doi.org/10.2307/3097201 Published: 31 July 2014