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This study investigated the prevalence and correlates of sexual risk behaviour among high school students in two rural settings in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, using a cross-sectional survey design. One thousand six hundred and thirteen randomly-selected adolescents (58% female) in Grade 11 completed a self-report questionnaire that asked about demographic characteristics and participation in a range of health risk behaviours. The results indicated a high prevalence of sexual risk...
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This paper discusses the organic development of a Sustainability Model for the implementation of an African language, viz. Zulu, as a language of learning and teaching (LoLT) at tertiary level in a South African University. The model created the conceptual framework for research into and implementation of Zulu as a medium of instruction in selected subject areas at University level. The aim of this project is to promote multilingualism in higher education. It has been funded by the South...
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In the US for many years and in the UK mainly since the early 1980s we have been teaching African American women’s writing within American studies, women’s studies, and various literature courses. This has built on the gradual recuperation of historical texts such as Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and the recognition and appreciation of nineteenth and twentieth century writers such as Zora Neale Hurston. Actually, African American women’s writing was probably...
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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction to Teaching African American Women's Writing G.Wisker Teaching The Color Purple G.Wisker Tune in and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God V.Bazin Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory D.L.Madsen Teaching Four African-American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez F.E.De Lancey 'This Crisis in the History of the...
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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction to Teaching African American Women's Writing G.Wisker Teaching The Color Purple G.Wisker Tune in and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God V.Bazin Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory D.L.Madsen Teaching Four African-American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez F.E.De Lancey 'This Crisis in the History of the...
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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction to Teaching African American Women's Writing G.Wisker Teaching The Color Purple G.Wisker Tune in and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God V.Bazin Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory D.L.Madsen Teaching Four African-American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez F.E.De Lancey 'This Crisis in the History of the...
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In the last two decades Ethiopia has been implementing a community based environmental rehabilitation program that focused on water and soil conservation with optimistic outcomes. This paper describes the experience of a successful local based and cost effective intervention that transformed a food-insecure, drought-prone Ethiopian village into a sustainable community in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The result is a partnership between the local community, the government,...
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The role of African American mothers' academic gender stereotype endorsement in shaping achievement-related expectations for and perceptions of their own children was examined. Mothers (N = 334) of 7th and 8th graders completed measures of expectations for their children's future educational attainment, perceptions of their children's academic competence, and academic gender stereotypes. Consistent with hypotheses, mothers held less favorable expectations for sons and perceived sons to be...
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Cervical cancer is one of the most common forms of carcinoma among women worldwide, accounting for about 12% of all cancers. Tragically, studies have shown generally low awareness levels on its symptoms, risk factors and prevention. This study evaluated the effect of a health education program on knowledge of cervical cancer amongst women at risk in Africa.This study was conducted in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, using a multistage sampling technique. Two model markets were chosen by simple...
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Abstract This paper argues that we need to explore the notion of the lifeworld, particularly the African lifeworld in order to develop a deeper understanding of these concerns. Focusing on blacks in general or African learners and students in particular, I posit that the above concerns fail to acknowledge the cultural dimension of learning, and I draw on Rasmussen (1998) who argues that, for a variety of reasons, learning should be studied as a cultural phenomenon. Finally, I argue for...