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This meta-synthesis is on research conducted by different researchers in a team research project on learners’ experience of aggression in secondary schools in South Africa. The objective was to obtain a broader understanding of their experience of aggression in different contexts in South Africa, as well as possible ways to assist learners to address the experienced aggression. Eleven completed research projects were purposively sampled. Data were collected utilising the following headings:...
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Introduction This piece aims at analyzing reasons why the study of Africa’s cities and the practice of urban planning on the continent are so full of ‘sustainable development’ rhetoric and comparatively silent on questions of social and environmental justice. I use case studies from two countries with significant bibliographies of urban geographical research, South Africa and Tanzania, to examine this puzzle. A related absence to that of environmental justice analysis is that of the...
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A Research Report Submitted to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Award of a Bachelor of Education Arts of Kampala International University
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The Department of Missiology at the University of South Africa (Unisa) developed a course entitled Christian Action for Anti-Racism and Reconciliation in the late 1990s, under the leadership of Klippies Kritzinger. Initially the course was aimed at South African students, who had just emerged from the institutionalised racism of apartheid and colonialism. Recently students from other parts of Africa have enrolled for the course. They reflect on their struggles against racism and xenophobia....
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The recent expansion of secondary education in Tanzania, as a result of the Secondary Education Development Programme (2004-2009), has brought about some philosophical and practical issues surrounding teacher preparation and recruitment. One such issue has been on how best and cost-effectively teachers could be prepared and retained in schools, at the period of high teacher demand. This study addresses issues related to learning how to teach and retention in teacher education programmes...
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Abstract African governments face increasing pressure from major export destinations, primarily former colonial and slave-owning countries, to be climate change compliant. This will certainly be on display at the upcoming December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which will seek to strengthen climate change rules agreed on in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and adopt new protocols on global climate change regulation. Climate change is a double-edged sword: on one side it...
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A Research Project Submitted to Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the A Ward of Bachelors Degree of Science in Education of Kampala International University.
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Wind related hazards have not been adequately acknowledged as environmental problem like flooding and gully erosion that needs to be properly addressed by the Nigerian Government. This is in spite of the fact that it claims lives, destroys buildings and social infrastructure annually. This prompted this study that dwell on quantifying the cost of climate change impact in Nigeria with special emphasis on wind and rainstorm hazards on building and infrastructures between 1992 and 2007. Climate...
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Introduction Background to the Study Information professionals have long sought to comprehend what factors are relevant in encouraging a person to seek out information. More recently, a particular focus of inquiry has been on those factors that play a role in deciding to use the library's electronic resources to seek information as opposed to just surfing the Internet. These inquiries assume an even greater importance in light of the fact that more people are using the Internet to find...
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(2009). ‘Teaching while Black’: narratives of African American student affairs faculty. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 22, Critical race studies and education, pp. 713-728.
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This situation has been further aggravated by the influx of illegal aliens from the neighbouring countries in particular, where conditions of economic deprivation and depression occur and who are consequently prepared to work for meagre wages …. With whatever empathy and understanding one may judge the underlying reasons and motivation why people are compelled to leave their fatherland and to seek refuge here, the interests of the RSA and her citizens and legal residents must be our first...
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Background The diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia must reflect an increasingly diverse and aging United States population. This study compared direct testing and informant reports of cognition with clinical diagnoses of cognitive impairment and dementia between African Americans and whites. Methods Participants in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study completed in‐person dementia evaluations, and were assigned clinical diagnoses (by a consensus panel of dementia experts) of...
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Physical activity (PA) in children/adolescents of both genders from a rural community in Mozambique was estimated by accelerometry and by questionnaire and was compared with PA of Portuguese youth. Total PA, moderate (MPA), vigorous (VPA) and very vigorous (VVPA) were evaluated. Mozambican boys were more active than girls. Intensity of PA declined significantly with age. Survival activities, such as household tasks, were the predominant mode of PA. Compared with Portuguese...
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The Physiotherapy Department of the Divine Word University in Madang was established in 2003 and is the first in Papua New Guinea to offer a professional physiotherapy qualification program. A research project has been carried out to improve the appropriateness of the program to the rehabilitation needs of people with physical disabilities in Papua New Guinea. This paper aims to give insights from a profile of persons experiencing difficulties with moving in a rural and an urban area of...
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A Thesis Submitted to the school of post graduate studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the a ward of Degree of Master of Educational administration and management of Kampala International University
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The ethical issues associated with HIV and AIDS are challenging and complex because of beliefs about HIV and AIDS, stigma surrounding the epidemic, lack of knowledge, and fear. Both South Africa and the United States have a nursing code of ethics which endorses a nurse's responsibility to maintain a patient's right to confidentiality, involvement in decision-making, autonomy, and informed consent. However, nursing students may inappropriately handle ethical challenges in practice related to...