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The National Policy on Education in Nigeria is an important document that had attractive plans for the Educational System of the country in general and, in particular, for persons with a disability. As the policy concerns the welfare and education of persons with a disability, its implementation has been fraught with the problem of lack of a legal document to regulate implementation activities. Basic to this problem, of course, are those of funding, limited definitions and policy objectives....
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This paper describes some of the approaches adopted in three settings in Ghana to provide community education and counseling for communities patients and their relatives on HIV/AIDS infection. The three areas are Berekum District of Brong-Ahafo Region Manya and Yilo Krobo Districts of Eastern Region and Assin District of Central Region. The services are operated from the Berekum Holy Family Hospital the Agomanya Saint Martin de Porres clinic and the Assin Fosu Saint Francis Xavier Hospital...
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Journal Article DROUGHT, AGRICULTURE ANDENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY FROM THEGAMBIA, WEST AFRICA Get access KATHLEEN M BAKER KATHLEEN M BAKER Dr Kathleen M. Baker teaches in the Geography Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Thanks are due to Bashira Jahumpa, Ismaila Sagnia of Action Aid, Omar Ngum and T jmin Jarjusey for help with the fieldwork. Thanks are also due to Mrs C. Lawrence for drawing the maps and diagrams and to SOAS, University of London, for funding the...
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This article reports on a two-part study of African American children's uses of various forms of the /-s/ suffix. Part 1 of the research consists of a careful replication of Torrey's (1972) experimental study to investigate the correlation between language and educational achievement. This replication study involved the administration of a series of pre- and posttest measures to determine surface-level uses of four /-s/ morphemes among 17 second-grade students. In addition to these...
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An aspect of curriculum policy-making under the past Nationalistgovernment had to do with policy being used to develop and impose thestate’s nationalist and religious ideology-Christian National Educationonall schools in South Africa after its assumption of power in 1948. Oneconsequence of this policy was that the rich diversity of South Africans asa people holding to multiple, positive, and idiosyncratic beliefs linked tovarious communal identities was sacrificed to a state-imposed...
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African Americans are usually excluded from receiving federal or local funding as language minority students because English is their native language. African Americans share a unique linguistic history when compared to other immigrant groups. Slaves were separated by language upon capture in West Africa, thereby resulting in pidginization processes with English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese which flourished during the European African slave trade. Ensuing Creolization in North and South...
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In the last three years, one of the authors of this paper has co-directed a number of advanced leadership and management training sessions for high ranking government officials from mostly Sub- Saharan African countries. The tuition cost alone for each trainee is $6,500 for a three-week training session. He has been obsessed with a basic question: Is it a good investment for less-developed countries (LDCs)? An extensive literature review proves that there is no shortage of training methods...
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(1995). Caring For The Psychological And Emotional Needs Of Children: Creating A Training Programme For The Police, Health, Education And Social Welfare Sectors In Zimbabwe. Southern African Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 100-104.