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Egyptian minority students are stereotyped by Egyptian majority students, teachers, and administrators based on an assumed range of activities, characteristics, or behaviors. They are discriminated against and treated less favorably on the grounds of their religious background. This article explores the difficult positions that teachers and administrators may encounter in ethnically, culturally, and religiously diverse settings. It investigates how stereotyping Egyptian Christians as a...

Over the next few decades, it is expected that increasing fossil fuel prices will lead to a proliferation of energy crop cultivation initiatives. The environmental sustainability of these activities is thus a pressing issue—particularly when they take place in vulnerable regions, such as West Africa. In more general terms, the effect of increased CO2 concentrations and higher temperatures on biomass production and evapotranspiration affects the evolution of the global hydrological and carbon...

Over the past two decades there has been increasing interest in studies of air pollution and its effects on human. The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and to relate these measures to the degree of air pollution in an urban area (Sapele) and to establish a relationship between peak flow rate and the anthropometric measurements among the respondents in an urban area. Four hundred respondents were administered on the frequency and duration of cough,...

The girl child participation in primary school level of education has become a real concern in all nations of the World particularly in the developing countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya included. Girl child education worldwide provides benefits to the family and the society at large thus factors affecting it should be addressed for the sake of human and societal development. The objective of the study was to establish the factors affecting girls’ participation in primary schools in...

The study sought to establish causes of conflict amongst primary school heads and teachers and how such conflicts could be resolved in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.The study also sought to establish teachers' perceptions of conflict, and their preference of conflict arbitrators.Sixteen purposively selected teachers from 4 schools responded to questionnaire items in this survey.The major findings of the study were that conflicts exist in most schools as heads and teachers conflict with each other over...

This study examined teachers’ perceptions of the assessment structure on the 0’level History Syllabus 2167 examination in Zimbabwe. A descriptive survey approach in which 30 History teachers from 15 Zaka District secondary schools responded to a questionnaire was used. Quantitative and qualitative paradigms of data presentation were both useful in this project. Findings from the study revealed that assessment and teaching History are two sides of the same coin but dropping the Source Based...

This ethnographic study explores the complexities of how young children aged five to six years construct and perform their 'race' identities in early schooling in post-apartheid South Africa. Set within the broad framework of transformation and integration within the education system, official, formal and informal discourses of diversity, difference and identity are examined in order to understand how dominant ideological and discursive frameworks serve to structure social categories and...

In an effort to help student teachers improve the classroom learning environment in order to make it conducive, this research sought to establish the student teachers’ perception and conception of a conducive learning environment. It also aimed at unraveling their rationale for displaying charts, mounting mobiles, setting up of learning centers and displaying children’s work. The questionnaire, interview and observation were the main modes of data gathering. The findings point to the fact...

Work was originally a matter of necessity and survival. Today, work is still a necessity but it should be a source of personal satisfaction as well (Parsons, 2002). In most tertiary institutions, a lot of students are studying and working at banks at the same time. The question is, how do these students maintain a balance between their work, studies and social life, considering the fact that the banking sector is already a very busy one? For people to be happy in their work, these three...

Introduction: There is evidence in the literature that rural background significantly encourages eventual rural practice. Given the shortage of healthcare providers in rural areas, we need to explore ways of ensuring throughput and success of rural-origin students in health sciences. It is therefore important to understand who these students are, what motivates them and the factors involved in the formation of their career choices.Methods: The aim of this study is to understand the...

The need to integrate Nigeria with other nations in the world that have achieved landmark results in Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) innovation necessitated this study on radio listening habits of pupils of nomadic pastoralists and migrant fisherfolks in Nigeria. The study was carried out in four pastoralists’ states of Borno, Katsina, Taraba and Plateau and migrant fisherfolks States of Rivers and Bayelsa. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, 200 of pupils were selected across...

This study focused on orphan hood which is a critical issue in almost every household not only in Kenya but also the world over.Orphans are at risk of losing their learning time as well as being involved in child labor among others.Orphan hood can be associated with an increased demand of the child's time in home production which results in less schooling.The objective of this article was; to identify the school related effects of orphan hood on the girl-child's access and retention in...

Meeting the medical and sexual health care needs of young people is crucial for sustainable development. In Uganda, youth are faced with a number of challenges related to accessing medical care and sexual health counselling services. This study sought to investigate the barriers faced by Ugandan university students in seeking medical care and sexual health counselling.This study is part of a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2005 among 980 students at Mbarara University of Science and...

This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in the context of Africa.Such analysis informs policy aimed at encouraging international technology transfer and development of domestic innovation capacities.We present detailed analysis of the role of Africa in development of these technologies (invention), and then move on to examine Africa as a technology market (as reflected in patenting).In addition, we briefly touch...