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Debate continues over when central political actors can act independently to construct local institutions and manipulate demands placed on these organizations by the family (Weber, 1976; Thomas and Meyer, 1984; Rubinson, 1986; Tilly, 1986). The institution-building literature, from a variety of theoretical viewpoints, assumes that the state incorporates and rationalizes local collectivities in a deterministic, linear fashion (Weber, 1947; Carnoy, 1984; Meyer, 1992). A growing literature has...
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Depuis la fin de la guerre civile, le Nigeria est passe par une reconsideration de ses structures nationales dans tous les aspects de la vie, et surtout dans l'education. La grande reforme de l'education mise en oeuvre depuis 1976, a fait l'objet, en 1979, d'un rapport gouvernemental qui commente l'application de la politique nationale du Nigeria en matiere d'education. L'A. examine ici ses implications sur la politique linguistique a tous les niveaux d'enseignement. Il explique ainsi...
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This article discusses the problems of validity and reliability in qualitative research within education and relates this discussion to Africa. A main concern is the posing of the right research questions. The article attempts to bring into focus the voice of Africans, showing that the African researcher knows his/her environment better than any expatriate and will be more likely to ask the right questions provided that s/he is allowed to ask them and is not forced to work with questions of...
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Social learning is a phenomenon which has been investigated empirically in contexts as disparate as stock market pricing (Topol (1991)) and peasant agriculture (Case (1992) - See Loehlin (1987) for a survey). Two recent analytic models have provided an explicit framework in which agents supplement or even ignore their own information sets by imitating the decisions of others, (Ellison and Fudenberg (1993), Banerjee (1992), hereafter EF and B). In this paper we apply a variant of these...
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This paper provides an overview of current and future education and prevention policies and strategies aimed at dealing with the escalating problem of substance abuse in South Africa. It is suggested that the ambitious Reconstruction and Development Programme of the South African Government with its broad community development approach might well become jeopardized if the issue of substance abuse and the need for effective policy and strategy to combat and prevent such abuse is not kept in the national spotlight.
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Abstract This paper presents a critical analysis of, and a practical response to, teacher education imperatives shaping the politics, policy, structure and operation of Community Teachers Colleges in Papua New Guinea today. Present Papua New Guinea educational realities call for a rethinking of the political socialisation that has characterised Community Teachers Colleges in the past. The evidence suggests that the predominantly unreflective (basic skills/behavioural objectives), centralised...
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A research report submitted to the Faculity of Specialized Education, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Educational Psychology). Johannesburg, 1996.
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Zimbabwe is a country of approximately eleven million people located in south central Africa. In some respects, pharmacy education at the University of Zimbabwe is similar to that in the United States; the development of communication skills and the role of the pharmacist as the drug expert are both emphasized. Compounding continues to be a major focus of study since bulk compounding is more economical than purchasing pre-packaged drugs from a manufacturer for a developing country. The...