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The use of appropriate interventions is a critical component of educating students, particularly African Americans in special education. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of guided notes on the academic performance of eight African American boys identified as having emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) and learning disabilities (LD) in special education. Findings indicate that the use of guided notes could be an effective intervention strategy for improving academic...
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This article explores the significance of sexuality in relation to the ways boys and girls in southern and eastern Africa construct their identities. It draws on a UNICEF-funded study conducted in the region with 6-18-year-olds from 2001 to 2002. This addressed young people as active and intelligent beings and encouraged them (in interviews and diaries) to elaborate upon their interests, pleasures and anxieties, and their relations with contemporaries and adults of either sex. It seemed...
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The authors review two evidence-based literacy studies conducted with low-income, urban, African American children. The first was a longitudinal study focused on developing prerequisite early literacy skills with preschoolers living at the poverty level. The second study focused on effective literacy practices at the elementary level.
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The disparity in educational outcomes between majority White and minority African American populations has become known as the African American achievement gap. The authors examine the under performance of African American university students by providing an overview of the major cultural, communication, and learning style characteristics of Black students and the schooling conditions and practices at predominantly White universities. By not teaching based on diversity, professors may be...
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The aim of this paper is to gauge the ethical views of male and female final year Accounting students in South Africa and to compare the results with similar studies performed in Australia and Ireland. The study also discusses the desirability of including an ethics course in the Accounting curriculum as a strategy to improve the ethical standing of the accounting profession. The most important self‐reported factor that influenced students’ ethical behaviour was the fear of getting caught....
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This article is a by-product of research carried out on the interface between African isiZulu-speaking primary school learners and mainly English-speaking teachers of Indian origin. This took place in six schools in Indian-dominated residential areas, situated in five suburbs of Durban, South Africa. It is an attempt to create a theoretical framework out of two issues: ethnographic data from fieldwork with teachers in schools in the city of Durban, and the current reality of South Africa's...
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The University of Botswana (UB), established in 1982, offers majority of its courses in traditional classroom settings that incorporate limited use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, in 2001, UB implemented a university-wide e-learning initiative (UBel) that provided a strategic plan to develop technology-enhanced education. Created within Educational Technology Unit (EduTech) in Centre for Academic Development (CAD), this plan includes a comprehensive procedure...
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This paper investigates the link between micro-level outcomes and macro-level policy initiatives for a sample of eight-year-old children in Ethiopia. It uses school enrolment data from a 2002 survey of 1,000 rural and urban households from food insecure communities. This study investigated external factors associated with children’s enrolment in school, such as lack of income, labour, economic shocks, social capital and education of adults in the household. We found that household wealth,...
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Hospital studies have shown that stroke is an important cause of hospital morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia. The aim of this study is to determine the pattern, risk factors and determinants of mortality in patients with clinical diagnosis of stroke. It is a cross sectional study of all patients admitted with a clinical diagnosis of stroke between September 2000 and August 2001 to the Addis Ababa University Teaching Hospital. A total of 128 patients with mean age of 53.2 and M: F ratios of...
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Diabetes is associated with microvascular damage in all populations, but diabetic patients of Black African descent (African Caribbeans) have a greater risk of vascular target organ damage than would be anticipated for any given blood pressure level. We investigated whether this may be due to differences in the microvasculature.To assess the maximum hyperaemic response to heating and the post-ischaemic response, Laser Doppler fluximetry was performed on 51 and 100 Europeans, and on 66 and 88...
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The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) was established to address the compartmentalization of education and training, the absence of norms and standards and the need for international recognition. According to the South African Qualifications Authority (1996),this framework was aimed at developing a comprehensive qualifications structure and an integrated approach to education and training in the country (NCHE, 1996:46). Educational institutions, including those for nursing, were...
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Community-based education is about a decade old in basic nursing education in South Africa. An extensive review of literature revealed that although CBE was a familiar concept in South Africa, there was however, limited understanding of what this phenomenon means. The purpose of the study was to analyse the concept 'community-based education' with the aim of discovering shared understanding of this phenomenon in basic nursing education within the South African context. Strauss and Corbin's...
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The unprecedented growth in agricultural production and productivity in the developed world, had its root in the development of modern technologies. The same were passed to the developing world through the Conventional Extension (CE) system but could not achieve the expected goal because it is top-down, information – driven, and most often, alien to the environment. Consequently, the Farmer Field School (FFS), as a participatory system was introduced to Ogun State in the 1990s. The objective...