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Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness training to help connect letters to speech. Learners were given reading tests and a computerized reaction time test. Although the literacy courses were shortened by the arrival of rains and government delays, the piloted methods helped adults read better than those in the...

This article explores sources of risk information, determinants of access to it, its reliability and determinants of leatning in the farming systems of Eastern Ethiopia. Social learning and cultural theories are used to guide the investigation using a mixed methodology of quantitative analysis and qualitative interpretation of data from formal and informal surveys. Hypotheses that access information and learning and differ according to age, gender, education, religious faith and other...

Abstract African American women are at increased risk for disabilities. There is very little information available, however, regarding psychological interventions with African American women with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to discuss psychological intervention in working with African American women with acquired disabilities from a womanist perspective. Themes and interventions will be discussed. Recommendations for working with African American women with disabilities in a...

International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsVolume 82, Issue 1 p. 77-78 Brief communications Abortion care in a teaching hospital in Ghana E.K. Srofenyoh, E.K. Srofenyoh Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, GhanaSearch for more papers by this authorA.T. Lassey, A.T. Lassey Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, GhanaSearch for more papers...

Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness training to help connect letters to speech. Learners were given reading tests and a computerized reaction time test. Although the literacy courses were shortened by the arrival of rains and government delays, the piloted methods helped adults read better than those in the standard...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKey Words: mathematicsstandardsAfrican Americansachievementequity Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert Q. BerryRobert Q. Berry III is an assistant professor of mathematics education at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia.

INTRODUCTION Women living in rural areas have the lowest rates of participation in strength training (ST). This study examined factors that influence ST in older rural women. METHODS Survey participants were 60 white and 42 African American women, aged 70.59±9.21 years, and focus group participants were 23 white and 16 African American women aged 67.5 ± 9.2 years, recruited through a health care center in rural SC. Participants completed measures of demographics, physical activity (PA) and...

Four sites were selected in Sale's city in Morocco in order to contribute in air pollution level assessment and determination of its effects on public health. The sites were selected so that they are close to the most important industrialized areas, they have a very high demographic density and they cover a heavy traffic. Two approaches of air sampling and subsequent analysis methods of elements in atmospheric aerosols have been performed. The first is a classical approach, which consists in...

infant care practices are prevalent.Highly focused strategies are required to improve the awareness and knowledge of this group of women.

Growth faltering of rural Gambian infants is associated with a chronic inflammatory enteropathy of the mucosa of the small intestine that may impair both digestive/absorptive and barrier functions. The aim of this study was to determine whether the enteropathy was associated with a compromised barrier function that allowed translocation of antigenic macromolecules from the gut lumen into the body, with subsequent systemic immunostimulation, resulting in growth retardation. Rural Gambian...

This qualitative study used a series of focus groups to examine the experiences of African American female adult learners in higher education ( N = 10). This article highlights three categories that emerged: the motivations, challenges, and sources of strength the participants experienced as they worked toward their academic goals. The findings are important to professionals working with African American women in academic settings and for those who want to enhance their current understanding of the lives of African American women.

School Health Programmes offer the opportunity to deliver public health interventions to a great number of beneficiaries at a relatively low cost and are seen with growing interest by policy makers in developing countries and the donors' communities. In Egypt a pilot School Health Programme has been implemented for the past 6 years in Behera, the largest and most populous Governorate of the Nile Delta. The Programme integrated additional activities for the control of soil-transmitted...

The problem with models is that they almost always break. At some point, new information or new theoretical perspectives arrive and the model is rejected, or at best put aside and referred to occasionally for its historical interest. This article looks at my perceptions of music education in Britain and Kenya over the past 30 years or so using a range of models, precisely because it is in their “breaking” that one learns what is most significant. I have taught in both countries, at all...

We develop a model where blacks in the private sector earn no returns to education if there are relatively too few educated blacks. Using a sample of black females in the late apartheid KwaZulu to control for labour market specific effects, we find that more than a fifth of labour market participants are self-employed. There are no returns to primary education and positive returns for the first two years of secondary education. Further education allows females to find employment in the...

In this study, the accumulation sensitivities of trace elements in six types of air pollution biomonitors (lichens, tree barks and a moss) are compared. Three analytical methods were used: 14 MeV neutron activation analysis, thermal neutron activation analysis method and X-ray fluorescence analysis. Studies of the local concentration variations versus the sizes of lichen and of their altitude of collection from grounds, revealed that a standardisation of the procedures for collecting samples was necessary.