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This ex-post-facto designed study was geared towards assessing the readiness of would-be teachers in universities inCross River State for the teaching profession, and how reforms can be managed to strengthen this. Three hypotheseswere isolated to give direction to this investigation. 200 students from the two universities in the state constituted thesample drawn from a population of 1684 graduating education students. Data were generated using “Students’Teaching Readiness Questionnaire...

This research is conducted to examine what is currently evaluated with respect to teaching in Nigerian publicuniversities and to produce instruments that would be useful for examining the course and teaching effectiveness ofcourse lecturers. Telephone interview of ten (10) professors in ten public Nigerian Universities is used to elicitinformation on the current state of evaluation of teaching while a document analysis reveals the concerns ofNational Universities Commission with lecturers...

The authors of this paper would like to thank the Faculty of Health Professions and the Department of Nursing, Al Quds University. As well as, the authors would like to thank both the all participants of this study and UNRWA education authorities as well UNRWA schools’ administrations for their assistance during this study.

Aim: To evaluate a reproductive health awareness programme for unmarried adolescent girls and boys in rural Tanzania. Methods: A pre-test–post-test research design was used to evaluate adolescents' knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards reproductive health before and after participation in a 45-minute reproductive health awareness programme. The programme was conducted using a picture drama, reproductive health materials and group discussion. Data were collected using a 23-item structured...

Armed attacks on education affect students and school personnel around the world. South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks on education, but robust prevalence estimates are challenging, as there are currently no validated, streamlined, and pragmatic methods available for monitoring attacks on education. Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within the child protection and education sectors, this...

This article introduces ten guidelines for a new code of praxis, based on critical complexity theory, to steer journalism education and training (JET) into the ‘digital future(s)’. The concept of cultural citizenship, which establishes a link between teaching and learning and the construction of citizenship, is introduced. The departure point is that contemporary South African media and society are characterised by levels of complexity which have rendered traditional realist modernist...

On Friday 23 October 2015, South African president Jacob Zuma announced that university tuition fees will not increase in 2016. The decision was reached after a meeting that day between the preside...

This article seeks to explain the capacity and limitations of African cities in building resilient infrastructure in the face of climate change. In this article, resilience means the ability of a social or ecological system to absorb disturbances while retaining the same basic structure and ways of functioning, the capacity for self-organisation, and the capacity to adapt to stress and change. To expose the capacity and limitations of African cities in building resilient urban...

South Africa labours under a bimodal education system in which inequality is deeply entrenched. Approximately 83% of schools are classed as being ‘dysfunctional’ and many learners are not effectively equipped for meaningful futures. Learners who are able to attend the few functional schools are generally able to attain better jobs and provide for families – meaning that the wealthy continue to receive the best education. Social mobility is a dream very few can actually achieve. The...

For a growing number of commentators, the Syrian uprising is explained by a prolonged drought period immediately preceding the outbreak of conflict in Syria in 2011. In this narrative, the marginalized ‘climate migrants’ are seen as a decisive factor for the onset of conflict. In this paper the author dispels these assumptions by arguing for a more complex approach that takes into consideration pre-existing internal migration patterns – social, demographic, political and economic drivers of...

There are some fascinating historical parallels between Mexico’s giant teacher union, the Mexican National Education Union, and the South African Democratic Teachers Union. Although both teacher unions played an important role in challenging political oligarchies at certain points in their history, they became increasingly protectionist. Through their close affiliation to ruling parties, they were able to wield substantial political influence. In both of these cases, the unions played a...

Political, cultural and social fallout following the introduction of the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda in 2009 intensified fabrication of an anti-gay public pedagogy of negation and nemesis that fuelled the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014. The Government of Uganda, conventional Anglicanism and US evangelical Christianity were all implicated in developing this homophobic public pedagogy. This article provides an extensive account of what transpired to result in prohibition of...

This pilot study evaluated a 15-session classroom intervention for HIV and pregnancy prevention among grade 8–10 boys and girls (aged 14–17 years) in rural South Africa, guided by gender-empowerment theory and implemented by teachers, nurses, and youth peer educators. Pre- and post-intervention surveys included 933 male and female students in two intervention and two comparison schools. The main outcome was condom use at last sex; secondary outcomes were partner communication, gender beliefs...

Elite high school football players face a barrage of pressures from their external environment that determine where they attend college as well as what factors, whether academic or athletic, they consider in a school. This study aims to analyze the relationship between African American high school football players, who go on to play intercollegiate football, and their high school football coaches. African American freshmen football players at a predominantly white institution in the...

The curriculum is a critical element in the transformation of higher education, and as a result, I argue for the inclusion of what I refer to as an African epistemic in higher education curricula in South Africa. In so doing, attention is directed at the decolonisation of the curriculum in higher education in South Africa, which aims to give indigenous African knowledge systems their rightful place as equally valid ways of knowing among the array of knowledge systems in the world. In...

Visionary leaders shape their actions and initiate transformation to reach a specific goal. To do so is critically important in South Africa, where the education system offers limited opportunities to manage a school in a manner that deviates from the prescribed norm. School leaders typically encounter barriers such as the inadequacy of the national educational budget, poor teaching and learning quality, limited curriculum offerings and insufficient learning resources. One entrepreneurial...

In recent years, Israel has seen an increase in disability studies scholarship and disability rights activism. At the same time, critical disability studies scholars have begun calling attention to the role of colonization and neocolonial powers, too often obscured in disability studies work, in disabling oppressed nations. This article brings these critiques in conversation with disability studies scholarship regarding Occupied Palestine to argue that disability is inextricably intertwined...

This vignette presents the state of theatre in Education Kenya. The paper argues that though there are several theatre in education like practices, these have not been entrenched in the school curriculum. Theatre in Education finds expression and manifestations outside the mainstream school curriculum for instance in schools and colleges drama festivals, through performance of set books and also as intervention theatre to address a myriad of problems in the society.