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In this article, Kevin Cokley challenges conventional wisdom about African American college students and the factors underlying their academic underachievement. In this quantitative study of students attending three historically Black colleges and universities and one predominantly White university, Cokley reviews and integrates existing research on the academic motivation and academic self-concept of African American students. He then introduces self-determination theory as an additional...
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Cet article presente les caracteriques de la population des enseignants du cycle primaire au Nigeria. Parmi les elements majeurs qui en ressortent, nous notons qu'il s'agit majoritairement d'une population feminine, jeune et n'ayant pu acceder a un recrutement dans l'institution universitaire.
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This paper explores the potential of Internet-based teacher development for improving the training outcomes associated with the implementation of Curriculum 2005, and thus for facilitating curricular reform in South African schools. It employs the concept of of practice (Wenger, 1998) as its conceptual framework. A case study was conducted of the Educators' Development Network - a South African open learning project that aims to create learning communities of teachers online. Data was...
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In South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is at the centre of the HIV epidemic and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are endemic in this province.1 Improving the quality of STI health care causes a cost effective reduction in HIV prevalence and STI incidence.2 Despite the introduction of national standard treatment guidelines (STGs), based on the syndromic management approach (where antibiotics are prescribed according to algorithms and non-medicinal aspects of care are emphasised), poor...
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This study focuses on 26 African American athletes and explores their perceptions of athletic career transition. Participants consisted of student athletes from a United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IIA institution in the Southeastern region. Participants completed the Life After Sports Scale (LASS), a 58-item inventory utilized to qualitatively and quantitatively examine seven different domains which influence perceptions of the career transition process....
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This study investigated how African American women from low-income, single-parent female-headed households conceptualize work and transitions to work, and how these conceptualizations relate to the dominant discourse of work underlying policies and practices in education-for-work. The study used the construct of cultural models as a conceptual framework that takes into account structural influences while at the same time accommodating individual choice, conflict among beliefs, and...
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This book moves in its three sections from discussions and expositions and some critique of policy, to examples of some practices, then to teachers and their experiences, and lastly to prospects of policy.
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The book aims to participate in building a substantial knowledge base of research which will lead towards a more effective school system.
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This paper describes an epistemological journey that explores taken-for-granted assumptions about literacy, empowerment, and the literate/illiterate dichotomy. I draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) descriptions of knowledge systems as rhizomatic to explore the connections between these assumptions and the implementation of vernacular education in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Specifically, the paper deals with the relationship between literacy and empowerment, the symbiotic attachments of L1 and...
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In the face of the budget constraint it is imperative that investment in education of workers be as efficient as possible. This paper explores the scope for fine-tuning this investment by reference to rates of return by level. Evidence is surveyed on calculations of rates of return to investment in education in South Africa based on 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1996 census data, inter alia. Severely complicating factors are found to be differences in methods of calculation and failure to account...
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One of the dilemmas faced by critical scholars since the unbanning of the African National Congress, was what kind of posture to assume in relation to the first democratic government installed in 1994.
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Declining revenue, staff downsizing and limited resources in corporations create serious organizational challenges. Training and human resources departments are often among the most adversely affected. Training managers are left with fewer resources with which to fulfil corporate training needs. Continuously having to justify costs and investments in training, they are often asked about the applicability and effectiveness of a particular project. Electronic training, a strategic human...
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In Germany, Lithuania, and Namibia different types of the HIV epidemic are present. HIV testing of health care students and their ratings of the risk of sexually acquired HIV infections and factors influencing the risk of contracting infectious diseases were analyzed. 182 German medical and dental students, 176 Lithuanian medical students, and 135 Namibian student nurses participated by completing anonymous questionnaires. The Namibian student nurses rated sexual HIV transmission risks...
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Colleagues in developing countries are required to meet a range of challenges when implementing educationally inclusive policies and practices. In this article, Kirsten Kristensen, clinical phychologist and senior consultant in special needs education and development; Martin Omagor‐Loican, commissioner for special needs education, careers guidance and counselling; and Negris Onen, principal education officer in the Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda, describe work focused on...
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Mentoring is a learning and instructional strategy that could be used effectively, especially in the area of continuing professional development. The purpose of this study was to determine the potential and the capacity of teachers who function as resource teachers within the Zimbabwean secondary school system to mentor their peers. Nine case studies of active resource teachers were examined through in-depth interviews. It was found that the resource teachers were doing minimal mentoring...