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Attempts to improve the quality of education in Botswana have, inter alia, included an emphasis on a learner-centered pedagogy. Attempts at implementing this pedagogy have been made within the ambit of the technical rational model of curriculum development. The attempts, however, have produced inconclusive results, and these results have often been rationalized in technicist terms, e.g., as being due to lack of resources and poorly trained teachers. Overlooked in this technicist model are...

This article compares the experience of young African-American and Puerto Rican women with the female condom during a thirty-day trial period by examining qualitative data from participant observations and in-depth interviews conducted at the end of the trial. Research was funded by CDC and conducted in two neighborhood health centers in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Salient findings identify inter-group similarities and differences in the local sociocultural community context in...

This paper arose out of interest in the broader implications of droughts in African countries and in particular, the droughts of Southern Africa in the mid-1990s. Although the physical aspects and agricultural impacts of drought and government and donor response as well as household coping and survival strategies in the event of drought have been well studied, little research has occurred on either its nonagricultural or economy-wide macroeconomic impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper...

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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.

Did Ethiopian flood basalts cause rifting of the African continent, or were they merely a passive response of plate movements on a far larger scale? We know that the 30 Ma eruption of the youngest major flood basalt province was followed by opening of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and that volcanic and tectonic activity continues to the present day along rift zones in the Afar depression. But we do not fully understand the link between these phenomena. Eruption of the Ethiopian flood basalts...

The South African higher education system is facing dramatic new changes. One of the most challenging issues is that of multiculturaiity. Multiculturaiity in higher education exists next to other challenges such as a new National Qualifications Framework; quality assurance initiatives; an Act on Higher Education in which a New social and academic role is given to higher education; the massification of the university system; increased access to higher education by former disadvantaged...

Personal and behavioural variables and the self-regulated learning abilities of African learners A ccepting responsibility f o r one's learning is not only an im portant variable that influences effective learning, but is also one o f the main characteristics o f self regulated learning. Self-regulated learners know how to use their knowledge o f the person al (e.g. g oal setting) and behavioural variables (e.g. learning strategies) that affect learning to their advantage. Within the context...

In this article an overview is given of an emerging vision for education management development in South Africa. The draft documents for education management before the election in 1994 will be stated briefly, after which a more detailed discussion will follow of the events that led to the proposed Institute as formulated in the Report of the Task Team on Education Management Development in December 1996. This Report will be discussed in more detail. In conclusion, some information on the...

Surveys of rural household energy use activities incorporating the production and utilisation of woody biomass, and of the forest products industries incorporating forest harvesting, wood processing and residues generation, were undertaken to assess the availability of wood biomass that could be utilised in biomass-electricity systems in Kenya. Government forests could not be relied upon to supply fuelwood to decentralised village gasifier installations as they were far from main village...

The study investigated the perception of academic and non-academic staff, heads of tertiary institutions, students, student union executives, and parents about the participation of student unions in the administration of institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. Specifically, the study investigated the areas in which the respondents perceived that the student union should or should not be involved. A Student Union Involvement Questionnaire (SUIQ) was administered to the respondents. A...

ABSTRACT Older pedagogies that separate learning English in South African schools into LI and L2 inevitably bring in their train judgements of ESL achievements as relatively fixed in quality and as less good in kind than those of L1 users. New curriculum emphases on the dynamic creativity of human language‐learning potential entail more positive and success‐oriented criteria for assessing additional language learning. Electronic links with students in Canberra, Australia and with a...

<h3>BACKGROUND</h3> An epidemic of bilateral optic neuropathy is affecting large numbers of people aged between 10 and 40 in Dar es Salaam, the capital city of Tanzania. The disease is characterised by acute onset of bilateral visual impairment, bilateral impairment of colour vision, and a characteristic temporal pallor of the optic discs. The disease often occurs in association with peripheral neuropathy and sensorineural hearing loss. This report presents the first data on disease...

This article examines the early experiences of a teacher of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Botswana, Africa, followed by his time as a teacher trainer and his earlier graduate school experiences. As a case study, this article offers personal and professional insights about “new” teachers, teacher preparation, language learning and multiculturalism.

When, out of the blue, I was asked to direct a 3-week workshop in Uganda relating to that country’s recently created capital market infrastructure, I asked to review the laws and regulations that had been adopted to date. Upon examination these laws and regulations were so well developed and sophisticated that I wondered whether there was anything I could provide to people who obviously already knew what they were doing. Imagine my great surprise when some pre-workshop phone calls to Uganda...

This article describes a silent battle occurring in the North-West Province of South Africa. This battle is comprised of style conflicts between high school teachers and their students. In an empirical study, the author examines a variety of style dimensions exhibited by learners of English as a second language (Afrikaans-speakers and Setswana/Sesotho-speakers) and their teachers. Results showed statistically significant style disparities between teachers and students. The majority of...

Cancer prevention materials such as pamphlets, booklets, and fact sheets play a significant role in reducing cancer disparities. Little is documented in the literature about the cultural sensitivity of materials targeting African Americans. The Cancer Prevention Materials and African Americans project was conducted to assess the cultural sensitivity and readability of printed cancer education materials targeting African Americans. Results showed current breast and cancer materials are not...