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Discusses issues relating to professional development and manpower training in Kenya. Provides background information on the libraries and information sciences training programmes situation. Gives attention to issues and trends affecting the information profession in training, curricula development, application of information technology, cost of information materials and the crisis in supply and demand in regard to manpower development in the information profession. Suggests that...
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Schooling, critical to the transition to adulthood, is particularly problematic for urban and minority youths. To explore predictors of school persistence the authors propose a socially contextualized model of the self. Strategies to attain achievement-related possible selves were differentially predicted for White and Black university students (Study I, n = 105). For Whites, individualism, the Protestant work ethic, and balance in possible selves predicted generation of more...
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(1995). The Image of Africa in Our Classrooms. The Social Studies: Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 245-247.
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The aim of this empirical study was to calculate private and social rates of return to education and to test the hypothesis that education is a major determinant of earning differentials for blacks in South Africa. Data for 23 278 working men and women were extracted from the 1985 Current Population Survey files. This comprised a sample representative of the black population in the Republic of South Africa excluding the former Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei territories. Lifetime...
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Of course [after graduation from high school] some things go, whistles, lights-out, uniform, parades, prefects,…and yet all the central ideas go on. There will still be chores to be done, and done well, without grumbles; there will still be the need to discipline, for men who can obey and can therefore—when called upon—rule…(Francis 1957, 2). What we are practicing at Makere, day in and out,…is the subversion… of the African mind; the breaking down of mental tissues; their reconstruction in...
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Two studies were conducted to evaluate the validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Third Edition (WISC-III) with African American students undergoing special education evaluations. In Study 1, correlations between Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised (WISC-R) and WISC-III scores were examined for 31 African American students undergoing 3-year reevaluations for special education. The correlations obtained were comparable to those reported in the WISC-III manual,...
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Current thinking advocates environmental learning experiences beyond simply awareness of issues affecting the environment. The focus now is on the encouragement of active learner participation in the resolution of authentic environmental problems. This makes environmental education an application of experiential education. Research indicates that the primary environmental concern of the urban African American community is the inequitable siting of toxic facilities in urban African American...
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The western equatorial Pacific warm pool is believed to be the source region of a substantial proportion of the world's inter-annual climate variability, including the globally significant El Nin˜o-Southern Oscillation. Here new data are presented on changes in the climate of this region over the past 70 yr, based on analysis of the stable oxygen isotopic composition of annually banded, massive corals living on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In this area, the coincidence of abundant...
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(1995). Teaching about Africa: A Review of Middle/Secondary Textbooks and Supplemental Materials. The Social Studies: Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 253-259.
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(1995). Error in the religious equation: Images of St Peter's School in South African autobiography. English Academy Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 58-69.
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Within the SGA research on the historical seismicity of the Crimean Peninsula (SGA Report, 1990), interest has been focused on the case of the earthquake of 63 B.C. According to regional seismic catalogues as well as to historic and archaeological literature, two late Roman sources. Dio Cassius and Paulus Orosius, allegedly give evidence of an earthquake which happened in the Crimea in this year; the event was linked to the death of Mithridates V1 Eupator, eventually the king of Pontos....
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Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsPost-Apartheid Education: Towards Non-Racial, Unitary and Democratic Socialization in the New South Africa. Mandla M. Mncwabe Chris ClaassenChris Claassen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 39, Number 4Nov., 1995 Sponsored by the...
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What is the relationship between the meanings of personal and professional acts of leading, the creation of a school culture that honors diversity, and what we know about effective schools? This case study of an African American female urban school principal explores and reinterprets traditional conceptualizations of effective leadership, given the increasing diversity of today's schools.
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Although climate variability is the single most important factor affecting the livelihood of the people of southern Africa, there is no country in which drought risk is managed well. This mission set out to determine whether the social and economic benefits from making use of long lead climate forecast techniques for managing drought risk in southern Africa would justify investment directed towards bringing forward the techniques into operational usage. The four person mission consulted a...