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The client analysis conducted in this study explores the professional development needs of11 language teachers, five in South Africa and six in Canada. The study employs a questionnaire and interviews to discover how each teacher's background and context affects his or her perceived professional development needs. Interviews show that teacher educators cannot necessarily predict teachers' professional development needs based on their backgrounds and contexts alone. A variety of inputs from...
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This article considers the nature and role of the learning organisation as a means of implementing change through training in South African organisations. The paper is based on theoretical study and empirical research, including 365 training and organisational development specialists in South Africa. Five null hypotheses were empirically tested in order to establish relationships between the learning organisation and certain independent variables (classification data and training). Advanced...
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Schools are faced with perpetual issues of who should be served and how and where they should be served. Clearly, traditional approaches to resolving these issues may be somewhat sophisticated but may yet lack the wisdom or the knowledge of a changing society. For instance, the issue of how best to empower African American exceptional learners has become endemic since most teachers still struggle with the infusion of multicultural education in their classroom practices. It is important that...
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John Biddulph was a pioneer of medical education in Papua New Guinea. He saw the training of Papua New Guineans in the various tiers of the health system as the key to improving the health of the population. As Health Department Specialist and University Academic, he was interested in all areas of medical training, but his main interest was in the area of maternal and child health. Being present at the birth of the Medical Faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), and being...
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Abstract Southern African rainfall does not show any trend to desiccation during the 20th century. However, the subcontinent experienced particularly severe droughts in the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s and the magnitude of the interannual summer rainfall variability shows significant changes. Modifications of the intensity and spatial extension of droughts is associated with changes in ocean–atmosphere teleconnection patterns. This paper focuses mostly on the well‐documented...
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Following an outbreak of serologically--and virologically--confirmed measles requiring large-scale hospitalisation of children in Ibadan, Nigeria, the herd immunity to measles virus among medical students and student nurses was determined. Of the 200 students tested, none lacked haemagglutination--inhibiting antibody to measles virus. The titre of HI--antibody ranged from 2(5) to 2(10). Describing a titre of 2(9) as very high, a significantly higher proportion of student nurses than medical...
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This thesis describes an institutional development history of a university coming out of colonial rule, through the days when-it had full national support for its central role for national development, leading to a period when the university had increasing difficulties claiming support for it. It examines the successes and failures of drawing up and implementing a strategic plan for university institutional development at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Mozambique. The most positive...
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With the integration of the education system in liberated South Africa, social development expectations should be justifiably high, especially for the country's long-oppressed black majority. The concretisation of these expectations is being, or will be, determined by a myriad of converging and diverging possibilities and difficulties. This article focuses on the problems of education and development in post-apartheid South Africa, with a sustained emphasis on the importance of looking...
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With the integration of the education system in liberated South Africa, social development expectations should be justifiably high, especially for the country's long-oppressed black majority. The concretisation of these expectations is being, or will be, determined by a myriad of converging and diverging possibilities and difficulties. This article focuses on the problems of education and development in post-apartheid South Africa, with a sustained emphasis on the importance of looking...
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This article reports on a study of classroom interaction in Kenyan primary schools carried out as part of a national baseline study for the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development in 1998. The baseline was designed to provide a comprehensive picture of the quality of primary education so as to allow the Kenyan Government to prioritise expenditure on resources to improve education in the republic and to assess the impact of any interventions. Video recordings of 102 lessons in...
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This article reports on a study of classroom interaction in Kenyan primary schools carried out as part of a national baseline study for the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development in 1998. The baseline was designed to provide a comprehensive picture of the quality of primary education so as to allow the Kenyan Government to prioritise expenditure on resources to improve education in the republic and to assess the impact of any interventions. Video recordings of 102 lessons in...