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The acquisition of idiomatic expressions is one of the primary challenges to learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in multilingual contexts such as Kenya; yet, the learners are expected to use these expressions in their writing. The study on which this paper is based sought to assess the teaching of English idiomatic expressions in Kenyan secondary schools with a view to establishing the challenges teachers face in teaching the expressions and, thereafter, proposing effective...
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The study assessed factors that influence students’ attitude towards agricultural science subject in secondary schools in Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study identified career choice among secondary school students in agriculture; assessed students’ perception of career prospects in agriculture; and identified factors that influence students’ attitude towards agricultural science subject in secondary schools. A three staged random sampling...
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The importance of teacher development need not be over stated. This is adducible by the fact that transformations, innovations and diffusions in education make it imperative that teachers have to continually change and adopt. This paper takes stock of the trajectory of teacher professional development in Tanzania by locating related initiatives in the macro-policies and education transformations spanning a period of nearly five decades. It identifies the missing dimensions for robust...
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This paper investigates teachers’ agency in relation to their professional development. In particular, we refer to research skills and attitude in-service teachers may acquire while attending an international master of research in education. A semi-structured interview was administrated to nine in-service teachers, coming from three different African countries. All of them are attending an international master course aimed to acquire skills in science educational research. The data collected...
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We explored the promotion of active citizenship through reports of engagement in a rural community program in the Western Cape. Students enrolled in a community psychology postgraduate course participated in this project, during which they made use of reflective journaling to record their individual processes. We used thematic analysis to explore the themes within these journals. Through engagement with the community, students were able to acknowledge and reflect on significant differences...
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Teachers are the most important resource for effective learning in schools. The quality of the teacher is closely linked to the quality of incentives the teacher receives. This paper presents findings of a study that examined the level of and factors associated with job satisfaction among primary school teachers in Tanzania. Data were collected from a randomly selected sample of 279 primary school teachers recruited from 23 regions of Tanzania through a mobile phone survey. The results show...
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Institutions and governments across the globe have been invariably striving to promote the vision of lifelong learning for years now. In some institutions, the discourse on the development of graduates’ lifelong learning skills has been linked with debates about improving the quality of teaching and learning using collaborative and group learning approaches. However, despite the wide acceptance of the use of group discussion in higher learning institutions of teaching and learning to...
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In the light of new forms of curriculum policy in the world, teachers are increasingly seen as important agents and so it is important to find out how they conceptualize it. This may inform the development of a well-informed teacher education programme at pre-service and in-service levels. This article illuminates what tutors’ understanding is of the competence-based curriculum (CBC) in the Tanzanian context. The study draws on Basil Bernstein’s concept of ‘reconceptualization’ to reveal how...
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Decadal variability in African rainfall is projected from General Circulation Models (GCMs) to continue under elevated greenhouse gas scenarios. Effects on rain intensity, spatio-temporal variability of growing seasons, flooding, drought, and land-use change impose feedbacks at regional-local scales. Yet, empirical knowledge of associated impacts on crop yield is limited; thus, we examined the imperatives for food security in Nigeria. Bivariate correlation and multiple regression suggests...
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The industrial development in Algeria has made a worrying situation for all socioeconomic stakeholders. Indeed, this economic growth is marked in recent years by the establishment of factories and industrial plants that discharge liquid waste in marine shorelines. These releases could destabilize the environmental balance in the coming years, hence the need to support the processing of all sources of pollution. Remediation of such discharges requires several steps of identifying the various...
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Three decades into the HIV pandemic, the issues affecting people with disabilities remain less known. Increasing attention has been given to this overlooked population when it comes to HIV prevention, treatment and care. This is related to the significant unmet sexual and reproductive healthcare needs facing people with disabilities worldwide. This article discusses the barriers to sexual health for people with disabilities in Africa and presents an argument about how mainstream HIV...
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This paper explores leadership practices in supervising instructional programmes for improving students’ performance in secondary schools. This study was conducted in four secondary schools with the two categories of best performing and worst performing schools in Morogoro Region, using a sample of fifty-nine respondents. The study used the qualitative approach. Data were collected through interviews, focus group discussion, documentary review and observation, and were later subjected to...