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In recent times technology and the World Wide Web have assisted in making African contributions to lifelong learning debates more visible. One example of this website visibility is the Annual Confe...
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Examinations the world over are used by various stakeholders for various reasons. For policy makers, they are used to evaluate the curriculum for improvement, for teachers and learners they are used for promotion to the next level of learning and for certification. For quality assurance personnel they are used to evaluate the teachers’ level of curriculum implementation. Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) is one such examination that learners encounter at the end of their primary...
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Background : The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has been increasing worldwide. South Africa has minimal data on childhood body weight. Objectives : This study determined whether school children in the eThekwini district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were underweight or overweight. Method : A survey with quantitative and qualitative components was conducted amongst 120 participants between 10 years and 12 years of age. The participants were randomly selected from six...
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This paper is based purely on the review of literature and indications emerging from the review. This paper covers the impact of changing business environment on the functioning and offerings of management education. International research studies in this field of enquiry identify dynamic technological environment and growing globalization as major drivers. These studies also indicate that in order to cope with the challenges of changing business environment, business schools are carefully...
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The research reported in this paper investigates the impact of, and challenges with, encouraging argumentation on students' conceptual development in physics. It draws its theoretical framework from two socio-cultural perspectives of learning, i.e. that learning science occurs in a social setting and secondly that learning science is a discursive and cultural process. A three stage teaching sequence intended to encourage argumentation was implemented at a government high school in Maseru in...
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Drawing on recorded interviews and focus group discussions with shopkeepers, and junior and senior high school children respectively in Accra Central, this study explores the public's perceptions o ...
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The preparation of educational leaders has been of interest in many jurisdictions as evidenced in such works as Lunenburg & Ornstein (2008), Hoy & Miskel (2008), Holdaway & Ratsoy (1991), and Quarshie (1992). In developing countries where the population usually has low level of education, and educational leaders tend to be appointed on the basis of competence in teaching, what strategies can be adopted for preparing local level educational leaders? The purposes of this paper, which is a...
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Agriculture in Ghana accounts for about 40 percent of national economy, three quarters of export earnings, and employs 60 percent of the labor force. Agriculture is the backbone of the economy (McKay and Aryeetey, 2004) and the sector has served as the main driver for the growth over the last two decades (World Bank, 2007). Moreover, agriculture is the most important sector for poverty reduction and has helped the country become the first Sub-Saharan African country to achieve the first...
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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the types of problems faced by teachers since Religious Education was introduced as an examinable subject in primary schools in Botswana. Botswana as a democratic, caring and prosperous country embraces the existence of different religions and worship. This is a welcome development since the country upholds human rights, respects and recognizes the different freedoms enshrined in the national constitution. Despite the different...