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The current emphasis in the promotion of school learning is on the active involvement of the learners in the learning process. Helping students to develop interest in self-directed cooperative learning is considered to be one of the ways to enhance active learning. This study sought to investigate the views of selected undergraduate education students on the value and constraints of cooperative learning. A 20-item questionnaire was administered to a sample of 600 students from six Nigerian...

Singapore reported the elimination of malaria in 1982, but this country remains vulnerable to imported malaria. We describe a large cluster of 16 cases of imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria in visiting Nigerian students. More than half were asymptomatic and diagnosed only on screening. Although early diagnosis and treatment of patients averted local transmission of disease, our report illustrates the vulnerability of malaria-free countries to the introduction of malaria in this age of increasing globalization and ease of travel.

The study examined coping strategies used by students at a medium size developing country university. Participants constituted two hundred and eighty one Social Sciences students at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe [49% female, 51% male]. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The results showed that the seven most common clusters of stressors were Finance, Library resources and study material, Accommodation, Food, Transport, Inadequate infrastructure and Lecturer related...

The level of HIV infection and intestinal parasitoses among TB patients was assessed in a hospital-based cross-sectional study involving 257 patients in Gondar, Ethiopia. In TB patients, our study reported co-infection with HIV (52.1%) and intestinal parasites (40.9%) The high prevalence of HIV and intestinal parasites indicates an increased morbidity inTB patients and emphasized the importance of continued HIV sero-surveillance, stool analysis and treatment.

To determine the impact of gender, nutritional anomalies, puberty and socio-economic status on the levels of blood pressure, fat distribution and heat rate in African school children and adolescents. This study also identified the risk factors of arterial hypertension in African adolescents.A cross-sectional study carried out between April and July 1996.Randomly selected schools of the semi-urban area of Kinshasa Province, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.1535 school children and...

This article offers a critical analysis of institutional discourse(s) about English, analysing what discourses dominate, how and why particular discourses come to dominate, and the extent to which these discourses remain endorsed. Furthermore, the paper considers the relationship between language, identity and power relations, specifically how learners are socialised into different identity positions. Discourse is understood as a ‘general mode of semiosis’ (Blommaert 2005, 2) and...

Guided by a general critique that asks, Highly qualified for whom?, I problematize recent characterizations of highly qualified mathematics teachers by focusing on the question, Who should teach mathematics to African American children? I discuss how responses to this question in mainstream mathematics education research and policy contexts have drawn on discursive frames that support color-blind racism, that focus only on achievement outcomes, and that propose "missionaries" and "cannibals"...

This article focuses on the role language plays in constructing youth identities that are in flux in desegregated suburban schools in South Africa. Interview and participant observation data were collected in three racially mixed schools in Johannesburg. My analysis of the data is set against a discussion of the problematic concept of race and of the historical classification of South African English according to ‘race’ as well as the position of English in South Africa at present. The...

This lesson plan promotes skills through an examination of Lincoln's legacy on race. The exercise incorporates images from the Indiana Historical Society's Jack Smith Collection. By race this lesson plan refers to issues of racial slavery and control. It asks the question: What does one really see when viewing an image of Lincoln and African Americans in a celebratory print about Emancipation? Is it Lincoln the Great Emancipator? Or is it the formerly enslaved taking their freedom? By asking...

Beyond the House: African American Educators on Teacher Education, by Gloria LadsonBillings. New York: Teacher's College Press, 2005, 156 pp., $21.95, paperback. Beyond the provides a metaphorical analysis of the continued struggle of African American teacher educators with racism and marginalization in the academy. In this text the author, Gloria Ladson-Billings, likens the experiences of African American faculty of teacher education to that of the house slave of a pre-emancipated America...

This paper explores solutions to American women’s low representation in elected political office based on strategies that have increased women’s representation in other countries. The list of nations above is an intentionally disparate sampling — these countries have different histories, governments, ethnic/religious/political make-ups, and standards of living, but they share one important characteristic: They have all made increasing women’s representation in politics a priority through...

We examined whether orphaned and fostered children and children of HIV–infected parents are disadvantaged in schooling, nutrition, and health care. We analyzed data on 2,756 children aged 0–4 years and 4,172 children aged 6–14 years included in the 2003 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, with linked anonymous HIV testing, using multivariate logistic regression. Results indicate that orphans, fostered children, and children of HIV–infected parents are significantly less likely to attend...

Abstract The September 2007 ash eruption at Oldoinyo Lengai terminated a period of >30 y of relatively quiet extrusion of natrocarbonatite lavas. Ash erupted on the 24 th September comprised nuclei of ijolitic phases, surrounded by finer peralkaline, silica-undersaturated material. The mantling material, as well as that forming nucleus-free particles, is dominated by nepheline, Ti-andradite, Na-melilite, combeite and a Na-Ca-phosphate-carbonate with minor amounts of K-Fe-sulphide and...

Published version can be found at School of Education, Howard University: http://www.journalnegroed.org/.

It is widely accepted that successful grazing management strategies in semiarid ecosystems need to be adapted to the highly temporal and spatially heterogeneous forage production. Nevertheless, a full understanding of the key factors and processes for sustainable adaptive management has yet to be reached. The investigation of existing, successful range management systems by simulation models may help to derive general understanding and basic principles. The semi-nomadic Himba in northern...

Based on the work of Bourdieu, this paper analyses how far formal education within a revolutionary setting can act as a ‘strategy‐generating’ institution in terms of enabling women to aspire to and achieve goals they would not even have envisaged pre‐revolution. In making its case, it draws on the examples of three revolutionary societies: Vietnam (since 1976), Nicaragua (1979–1990) and Eritrea (since 1991). It is argued that even though not eliminating gender as a discriminatory marker,...

This is a retrospective study carried out in the orthopaedic and trauma department of the Yalgado-Ouedraogo teaching hospital. All the patients hospitalized in the service with a chronic osteomyelitis (COM) from March 1, 1996 to March 28, 2000 were included. The frequency of COM was 5.3%. The patients' average age was 17.7 with extremes of 2 and 60 years old. 63.9% were male; 80.7% had fistulized COM. A pathological fracture was observed in 16.9% of the patients. Lower limbs were affected...