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The paper discusses issues related to the requirements and provision of technical/vocational curricular as it relates to political and socio-economic demands of the day. Early technical/vocational education in Zimbabwe developed with a strong religio-political curriculum. After independence in 1980 new political socio-economic issues became determinants of curricular development. The specific provision of technical/vocational education as it adapts to the world of employment has be...
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Abstract Abstract Political transition in South Africa has proved to be a contradictory, contested and faltering process. One of the sites of greatest social conflict and breakdown since the mid‐1970s has been the apartheid education system. Yet, during the three years following De Klerk's historic moves towards a ‘new South Africa’, there were no fundamental attempts to address the overall education crisis through policy change. A key issue in the educational dispensation is the future of...
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This article responds to a recent review essay by King (1993) on the limited presence of African American teachers in American elementary and secondary education. The purpose of this response is twofold. First, it is suggested that the original work leaves some of the issues surrounding attracting and retaining elementary and secondary school teachers unaddressed, leaves some conflicting empirical work unsynthesized, and provides interpretations and policy suggestions that do not necessarily...
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A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Education University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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This longitudinal study of 443 urban African American adolescents examined behavioral, psychological, and contextual predictors of staying in high school. Behavioral factors examined in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades were attendance, suspensions, grades, test scores, and grade retention; psychologicalfactors examined were students'engagement in school, their self-system processes, and their experience of support from adults at home and in school. Neighborhood composition and family economic...
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Located in Niamey, capital of Niger, a Sub-Saharian country where the rate of acute malnutrition in children is estimated at 16.8 percent, the National Armed Forces Center for Nutritional Rehabilitation and Education has been expanding its activities since 1986. The center offers curative and educational services to the children of military personnel and the population in neighboring districts. These services are regularly scheduled two and a half or three hours each morning five days a...
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Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.
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Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.
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Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.
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Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.
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Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.
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L'A. affirme que la situation de la Syrie ottomane est plus complexe qu'on veut bien le croire. Tandis que la these de la mort des proprietaires a ete acceptee par la plupart des juristes Hanafi en ce qui concerne l'Egypte, elle ne l'etait pas par le mufti palestinien Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585-1671) parce qu'elle ne s'applique pas a l'ensemble des provinces syriennes. Les conditions locales et les traditions n'etaient pas les memes d'une province ottomane a l'autre. L'A. montre que les...
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Epidemiology of schistosomiasis has been assessed in October, 1990 in three primary schools of a suburban district of Bamako: Magnambougou. It was a cross sectional study which was carried out on an hazardous sample of 549 pupils of 7 to 14 years old. The Kato-Katz and urine filtration methods were used to search schistosome eggs. The prevalence rate was 50% (256/512) in Schistosoma haematobium and 5.6% (26/464) in S. mansoni. Children from 11-14 years old were more infected by Schistosoma...
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ABSTRACT The paper examines some research paradigms and discusses methods and methodologies that may best yield answers in the context of drama and theatre in education. The nature and meaning of research is discussed in relation to drama and theatre studies in South Africa. Research in education is broadly categorized as positivist, interpretive and critical. These categories are related to research described at two international conferences in drama and theatre in education held in 1995....