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The infusion of environmental education into a new South African curriculum marks a historic shift from the past where it was marginalised from mainstream, formal education. Through the Environmental Education Policy Initiative (EEPI), environmental education was included as a key principle in the most recent government white paper on education and training. This policy process provided a platform for the establishment of an Environmental Education Curriculum Initiative (EECI) to ensure that...
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ABSTRACT This article examines summary data from a recent U.S. Office for Education civil rights survey of American schools in terms of three specific types of school responses to children's misbehaviors: corporal punishment, suspension from school, and placement in Special Education for the Behaviorally Disordered. Extremely large disparities in rates for African American boys versus those for girls and boys of other race/ethnicity groups were often found. The shear magnitude of the...
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This research tested a structural equation model of educational outcomes for three socioeconomic status (SES) groups of African American students enrolled in a community college. The structural model, which was based on a variant of Tinto's (1987) model, contained two exogenous constructs, educational intentions/commitment and external commitments, and three endogenous constructs, academic integration, social integration, and educational outcomes. The study demonstrated that higher levels of...
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As a result of their colonial past, African children are still educated predominantly through the medium of a foreign language. The author explores the historical, political and socio‐economic background to this situation, and examines its advantages and disadvantages. Since the foreign languages (mainly English, French and Portuguese) are major international languages, they help in the transfer of science and technology. But they are foreign, and are therefore limited, as media of...
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Interviews were conducted with almost 800 adolescents and their parents in 3 districts representing the range of school experience in Kenya. Researchers also visited 36 primary schools attended by more than 80% of the adolescents sampled, holding interviews with teachers and students, documenting facilities, observing interactions, and compiling measures of performance. Boys were seen bullying girls outside of classrooms, teasing them and blocking their movements. In focus group discussions,...
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Abstract Eygpt's education system is dominated by the secondary leaving certificate, the thanaawiya aama examination. From the earliest primary years, schooling is characterised by examination orientation and ritualisation. These features, in addition to Egypt's relatively late drive towards modernisation accompanied by centralisation and newly forged social divisions, clearly categorise Egypt as a victim of the ‘diploma disease’. Attempts to reform the assessment system are being hampered...
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The present study was carried out aiming to study ttle prevalence of Premenstrual Syndrome [PMS] among a group of teachers in Alexandria and to find out the relation between some determinants and PMS. The study was conducted on a sample of 500 primary school teachers in Alexandria through a cross-sectional approach. A pre-structured pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect the data. The Menstrual Distress Questionnaire [MDQ] developed and revised by Moos in 1991 was used to identify...
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The natural environment of the Kenyan coast is threatened in many ways. A study day was organized on August 7, 1996, by the School of Environmental Studies, Moi University, Eldoret, with presentations on the activities and research priorities of organizations concerned with coastal environment issues. This report contains presentations on district environment management by Henry Munga'sia; the Coast Development Authority by Bonfance Mwandotto; maritime research priorities for the Kenya...
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This paper focuses on two questions: Are Ethiopian high school children who immigrated to Israel achievement motivated? To what extent does the presence or absence of certain components of the achievement construct in the indigenous value system of Ethiopian students affect progress at school? The study is based on pilot research conducted in Israel in 1987 for which the central research questions were: Are elements of motivation to be found in the indigenous value system of Ethiopian...
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Christian D. J. Horton, Fort Valley State University* In their eagerness to develop proposals for curriculum and instruction, contemporary researchers and developers of resources on traditional African music often fail to understand that available resource materials must be critiqued in terms of the schools and students for whom they are primarily intended. Toward that end, this annotated bibliography was compiled to combat both the dearth of musicological resources on traditional African...