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A school health programme in Mwera Division, Pangani District included treatment of malaria attacks occurring in children during school time. A combination of symptoms (headache, muscle/joint pains, feeling feverish) and oral temperature > or = 37.5 degrees C was used for the diagnosis of malaria. Chloroquine (25 mg/kg given over 3 days) was used for treatment. Malariometric surveys on children aged 7-15 years (mean 10 years) were conducted once a year (1995-1997). Plasmodium falciparum...

Purpose: To describe Tanzanian adolescents’ utilization of health services, their satisfaction with the health services, and determinants of their satisfaction with these services. Methods: A questionnaire was administered to 1279 seventh-grade school pupils, measuring use of health services in the past 2 years, reasons for seeking health services, and satisfaction with the health services provided during the last visit. Descriptive statistics were calculated on health service utilization...

Participatory evaluation represents an innovative approach for assessing environmental education programmes as the methods involve stakeholders in the design and implementation of evaluation. This study applied participatory evaluation to the largest grassroots environmental education programme for youth in Africa, the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya (WCK). The study first involved staff, regional WCK representatives and local teachers in stakeholder analyses of WCK and the development of critical...

Rural in South Africa are often found on farms. These schools are usually erected by the farmer to educate the children of farm laborers. While officially public schools, farm are on private property and maintained through private funds. The history of farm is closely linked with the political history of South Africa. In 1987, 73 percent of all for Blacks were farm schools. The transition to democratic government and extensive educational changes implemented in 1996 resulted in an atmosphere...

The personal networks of listeners and nonlisteners to an entertainment-education radio soap opera in Tanzania are examined to determine the effects of interpersonal discussion of the soap opera's educational themes of family planning and HIV prevention. Listeners are more likely to discuss these two educational issues in their personal communication networks and are also more likely to have other listeners to the radio program in their personal communication networks. Respondents...

The personal networks of listeners and nonlisteners to an entertainment-education radio soap opera in Tanzania are examined to determine the effects of interpersonal discussion of the soap opera's educational themes of family planning and HIV prevention. Listeners are more likely to discuss these two educational issues in their personal communication networks and are also more likely to have other listeners to the radio program in their personal communication networks. Respondents...

A clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of 4- and 6-mo repeated treatment with albendazole 600 mg (Zentel, SmithKline Beecham) or mebendazole 600 mg (Vermox, Janssen) on geohelminth infections was carried out on children in 6 primary schools; the study included 1,186 children, ages 4 to 19 yr. Kato-Katz examination was performed on stool samples before and after treatment. Overall, albendazole produced better cure rates and egg reduction rates for geohelminths. The cure rates for...

Introduction The Six Young Men The Politics of a White Researcher Learning About Young African-American Men's Experiences of School Situated Meanings of the High School Diploma Accommodation and Critique if Life in Classrooms Building Connections Images of Self, Images of Others Power, Privilege, and Inequality References Author Index Subject Index

This essay reports on the current state of mathematics education in South Africa. It describes visiting schools and universities and reports on the views of various members of South Africa's mathematical community. Exchanges with students during classroom visits are also

(2001). 'Because We Did More With Less': The Agency of African American Teachers in Franklin, Tennessee: 1890-1967. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 170-203.

Teachers play an important part as role models and moral educators within their schools because they act in loco parentis to their pupils. In such roles, teachers are expected to guide their pupils and make them aware of their roles and of practices within society. However, some teachers tend to use their manipulative powers and abuse their pupils sexually, physically or emotionally. Education is a social process by which society transmits to children those aspects of its culture that are...

The gap in academic achievement between African-American and Latino children and their White peers is arguably the most important of all educational and social problems in the U.S. On fourth-grade NAEP reading scores, the gap diminished during the 1970’s, but has remained virtually unchanged since the early 1980’s. This paper presents research on the effects of Success for All, a comprehensive reform model for elementary schools, on the achievement gap. A large number of studies have found...

Geochemical data are presented for primitive alkaline lavas from the Chyulu Hills Volcanic Province of southern Kenya, situated some 100 km east of the Kenya Rift Valley. In addition to their primitive compositions, a striking and ubiquitous feature is a strong but variable depletion in K relative to other highly incompatible elements when normalized to primitive mantle values. Semi-quantitative models are developed that best explain the petrogenesis of these lavas in terms of partial...

Subjective memory impairment (SMI) is common in older populations but its aetiology and clinical significance is uncertain. Depression has been reported to be strongly associated with SMI. Associations with objective cognitive impairment are less clear cut. Other factors suggested to be associated with SMI include poor physical health and the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele. Studies of SMI have been predominantly confined to white Caucasian populations.A community study was carried...

The purpose of this study was to determine how African-American fathers of 10- to 14-year-olds viewed their strengths and learning needs as parents and to find out how children in this age group perceived the parent performance of their fathers. The Parent Success Indicator (PSI) was completed by 102 fathers and 104 adolescents. Significant differences were found between generations on 5 of 6 scales and 26 of 60 items. Independent variables with the greatest effect on how both generations...

At the heart of Pace's theory (1979, 1984) is the notion that what students gain from college is largely determined by the breadth and amount of effort they exert toward their education. Pace and his colleagues have operationally defined this construct in the Quality of Effort scales of the Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire (Friedlander, Pace, & Lehman, 1999). Student development theory (Miller & Winston, 1990) has suggested that the unique influences on growth between and...