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In the prophetic novel Two Thousand Seasons (1979), Ayi Kwei Armah challenges Black people to find sustenance in their origins. He calls especially on those he describes as hearers, seers, imaginers, thinkers, rememberers, you prophets called to communicate truths of the living way to a people fascinated unto death (p. ix). Armah asks that Black people look beyond the confusion of the present and find ways of linking those gone, ourselves here, those coming (p. xiii). As he continues:
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In this paper we shall take a closer look at the determinants of contraceptive use [including womens educational status] in sub-Saharan [Africa] using primarily the data from the WFS and DHS rounds. WFS describes the situation during the period 1978-82 and the DHS covers the years 1986-1989.... Consideration is given to the impact of demographic cultural and socioeconomic factors on fertility. The present analysis is performed at the level of regions within these sub-Saharan nations.... (EXCERPT)
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Intended to provide teachers ... with basic skills of enlarging pictures using three methods namely: a rubber band, a pantograph and an overhead projector.
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Many have argued that the academic achievement of a large number of African American children across the country-as measured by standardized achievement tests, suspension rates, Special Education placement rates, and dropout rates-has deteriorated considerably over the last 20 years. Several factors have been identified as contributing to this dilemma, including teacher attitudes (Fine, 1991) and inadequate facilities (The Council of the Great City Schools, 1987). Of late, there has been...
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Zimbabwe has a population of almost ten million people of which approximately 80 per cent, are poor and live in the rural areas. The majority of the rural population lack formal education and are ignorant of their rights. They have no access to legal services as most of the country's lawyers are based in the urban areas. Even if legal practitioners were accessible to them, they would not be able to pay for their services. Thus, they are liable to exploitation. Since independence, the changes...
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Abstract A typical Lorenz-curve framework is used to measure inequality of resource allocation in education in South Africa. While reductions in the degree of inequality have been achieved over the past two decades, substantial inequalities remain. The current distribution of resources in education is much more unequal than that for developed countries, but it is not as unequal as that for developing countries.
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This research deals with the acquaintance of the difficult vocabulary found in the books of science in the elementary cycle in the West Bank Schools, and their substitution with easier ones to enable the pupils to understand the scientific material better. Needless to say, that learning cannot be considered genuine unless it is absorbed when acquired. The learnt material preserved by the pupils’ increases when it is in harmony with the pupils' abilities; while mechanical (rote) learning...
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Abstract Individual multilingualism in a multilingual society is often associated with a mass education system. The Kenyan situation illustrates the intertwined complexity of the pedagogical and socialising aspects of language contact in such a system. Using ethnographic observation of classroom interaction in three primary schools, determinants of teachers' language choice and codeswitching among English, Swahili, and mother‐tongue are explored: official school policy, cognitive concerns,...