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This single-subject case study explored one teacher’s religious conversion to Islam and her workplace relationships in the United States and Egypt. Key findings of the study suggested that social context of schools influenced workplace relationships. As a Muslim-American teacher working in the American public schools, she was uncomfortable revealing her Muslim identity. Teaching in an Islamic-American school, she was welcomed as a member of the community. In Egypt, she viewed the schools...

This paper focuses on the deregulation of university education in Nigeria, its problems and prospects. The paper commences with the recognition given to education all over the world, especially higher education. Nigeria as a country gives much credence to higher education as the means for social and economic mobility, social transformation, and as a major platform for higher level workforce development – managerial and technological. To achieve these laudable objectives, therefore,...

Preface Chapter 1: History as Tool of Colonialism Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning African History Chapter 3: The Study of Africa and the African Experience: The Challenge and Possibilities of an Integrative Theory Chapter 4: Theorizing Africa Beyond its Boundaries Chapter 5: Teaching Africa: 'Development' and Decolonization Chapter 6: Reclaiming 'Development' through Indigeneity and Indigenous Knowledge Chapter 7: Indigenous Knowledge Studies and the Next Generation: Pedagogical...

This article describes workshops for high school physics teachers in Uganda on inquiry-based teaching and PhET simulations. I hope it increases awareness of the conditions teachers face in developing countries and inspires others to give similar workshops. This work demonstrates what is possible with some concerted, but not extraordinary, effort.

Introduction In many nations, adult education is being urgently asked to specify ways and means by which it seeks to enhance directly the total living, productive and competitive capacities of its target audience. This is expectedly so in a world inundated with searches for ways of promoting the competitiveness of the human resource and national economies in the global market. In other words, adult education is being asked to metamorphose into a vade mecum for coping effectively with...

Regardless of the manner in which mathematics achievement is measured, African American males are consistently placed at risk for academic failure, chronically underrepresented among high achievers, and overrepresented among underachievers (Davis, 2003; Martin, 2000). Contributing to their sub-par performance is a school mathematics curriculum that is divorced from African American students' everyday experiences (Ladson-Billings, 1997). This curriculum is most often supplemented by a that...

Evaluating the Egyptian Tourism Technical Education Regarding the Global Modern Variables The current study is.about the quality technical tourism education in Egypt .the ultimate purpose of this paper is to clarify the emergence of globalization and its impact on the quality of technical tourism education in Egypt. Desk sources used in this study embrace books and periodicals. In terms of field study, questionnaires were gives to students, teachers and graduates of technical tourism schools...

Chapter 1. Atu Chapter 2. Yudith Chapter 3. Paulina Chapter 4. Modezia Chapter 5. Rukia Chapter 6. Dorah, Mbakisha & Latifah Chapter 7. Madeline & Robert Chapter 8. Fadhima Chapter 9. Luse & Harriot Chapter 10. Maliamu Chapter 11. Maua & Isabella Chapter 12. Faustina Chapter 13. Angela & Mary Chapter 14. Helena

Source parameters for three majo earthquakes in the East African rift are re-computed from historical seismograms and bulletins. The main shock and the largest foreshock of the August 25, 1906 earthquake sequence in the main Ethiopian rift are re-located on the eastern shoulder of the rift segment.The magnitude of the main shock is estimated to be 6.5 (Mw) from spectral analysis. The December 13, 1910 earthquake in the Rukwa rift (Western Tanzania) indicated a significant strike-slip...

Abstract The authors, male and female African-American faculty from different academic disciplines at predominantly white institutions, share personal reflections on their experiences teaching postsecondary graduate and professional courses that focus on diversity and multicultural themes. This article provides tools and strategies for improving the overall effectiveness for those who teach diversity courses from a framework the authors have codified as a “3-C” perspective: context, characters, and curriculum.

This paper reports preliminary findings on how a primary teacher-training college in Kenya is preparing teacher trainees to teach about HIV/AIDS. Included are features of the Kenya education system. The aim of the study was to understand the preparation of teachers to teach about HIV/AIDS by exploring both teacher-trainers’ and trainees’ preparedness. The study was conducted by carrying out document review, observation and semi-structured interviews with the college administration, two...

The historical sources of large and moderate earthquakes, earthquake catalogues and monographs exist in many depositories in Syria and European centers. They have been studied, and the detailed review and analysis resulted in a catalogue with 181 historical earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Numerous original documents in Arabic, Latin, Byzantine and Assyrian allowed us to identify seismic events not mentioned in previous works. In particular, detailed descriptions of damage in Arabic...

Aim of this paper is to discuss on the T phases generated after the mb 6.5 earthquake that shook Algeria on May 21, 2003. The seismograms, recorded by a cluster of seismic stations located on the coast facing the Ligurian Sea, Northern Italy, some 800 km N-NE from the source, represent a good database able to shed some light on the recognition, propagation and characteristics of these quite uncommon phases. The occurrence and the recording of T phases are in fact due to particular...

As a result of the relative motion of the African and European plates, Libya, located at the north central margin of the African continent, has experienced a considerable intraplate tectonism, particularly in its northern coastal regions. If the seismic activity of the last fifty years, at most, is known from instrumental recording, macroseismic effects of those earthquakes which affected Libya in the past centuries are still imperfectly known. To try and partly overcome this lack of...

Poor academic success by African engineering students is currently experienced in many higher educational institutions, contributing to lower financial subsidies by local governments. One of the contributing factors to this low academic success may be the poor time management skills of these students. This article endeavours to explore this relationship by means of a theoretical literature review and an empirical study. Numerous studies have been conducted in this regard, but with mixed...