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In most African countries, former colonial languages continue to be used as languages of instruction (LOI) in the school system, based inter alia on the claim that African languages have not developed scientific and technical vocabularies. At the same time, however, the general public, including students, has a poor command of those LOI. This paper focuses on the situation of Lingala, which is the dominant language in Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo. Kinshasa students speak Lingala in...
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Teacher migration in conflict and post-crises countries such as Somalia has increased in the past four years. Qualified teachers are vulnerable to migration to other countries for reasons of safety and to seek out ‘greener pastures’, and the trend is for non-professional and immigrant teachers from neighbouring countries to fill labour gaps in countries in crises. Due to the prolonged conflict, Somalia is losing qualified workers in the field of teaching. While addressing issues of teacher...
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Five African American professors and nine of their African American students were interviewed for this qualitative study. The purpose of the study was to explore the perspectives of students who have taken arts-based courses and to investigate the purposes of the professors for incorporating this way of knowing into their higher education classrooms. Dillard’s (2006) notion of an Endarkened Feminist Epistemology guided this narrative inquiry that was informed by autoethnography. This...
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The rapid expansion in education systems in Sub Saharan Africa, driven by the Education for All (EFA) targets is causing strain including around the recruitment, initial training and professional development of teachers. This chapter offers an analysis of the current contextual factors and conditions impacting on the situation of teachers across the globe. Then, drawing on this analysis and experiences with a number of international teacher education projects and programmes, we propose a new...
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(2012). Chapter 11 - Erythropoietic indices in elite Kenyan runners training at altitude: Effects of descent to sea level. Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games: Vol. 1, East African Running: toward a cross-disciplinary perspective, pp. 199-214.
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In July 2009, the Ohio State University held its first weeklong intensive teacher workshop on Somali history, language, and culture. The workshop was the heart of a larger project to create resources for educators who work with Somali children, youth, and families. Over the course of a year the authors developed the workshop in collaboration with sponsoring agencies;1 Somali Studies scholars; local school district teachers and administrators; and local Somali artists, educators, students,...
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Nigeria, like most developing countries of the world has a high degree of antibiotic resistance emanating from antibiotic selective pressure coupled with antibiotic abuse. This study aims to determine the resistance pattern of bacterial isolates from various parts of the body in a tertiary healthcare institution. The study which was prospective and cross-sectional lasted one year, during the period from June 2008 to May 2009. Swabs and aspirates were obtained from patients who were seen at...
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This chapter is based on findings from the project ‘Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Score-card’ (WPHEGT).1 An original feature of the study was the inclusion of 200 interviews with students from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). They narrated experiences, aspirations and disappointments. Positive and enabling student accounts were evident in both countries and in all case study universities. These included supportive and accessible lecturers,...
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An interrogation under way is whether policies for widening participation in sub-Saharan Africa are working. That was one of the key questions addressed by the research project Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Scorecard. Research teams—at the Universities of Sussex, UK; Cape Coast, Ghana; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—found that the policies were working in the sense of increasing the overall number of students, especially women,...
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The Federal Republic of Nigeria was a British colony until October 1960 when it gained independence. The country is located on the west coast of Africa, with the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and bordered by Niger and Chad to the north, Benin to the west, and Cameroon to the east. Nigeria has 36 autonomous states, but practices a federal system of government. The federal capital city of Abuja is home to about 2.6 million residents. The approximately 250 ethnic groups who live in Nigeria speak...
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Violence that occurs in schools is antithetical to the function of schools as places for educating children and young people in conditions of safety, tolerance and reverence for knowledge. Ever since the English public schooling system was described by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), the existence of robust, hierarchical and often violent relations between schoolboys has been acknowledged. In recent decades, violence between school students has become a central concern for...
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learned that math games can help you too. I learned game get to a 1,000 will help you count and add. love to play Mancala because it is really fun and because you can come with new strategies and it is really challenging. learned how to play new games and learn at same time. The voices of African American fourth and fifth graders who participated in Minority Access to Revolutionary Instructional Extensions (MATRIX) project suggests power of games to support mathematical learning of students....