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The study examined the pattern and causes of non-conforming behaviours of students of secondary schools in Nigeria, as perceived by teachers. It also researched into the management of these behaviour by the teachers. Two hundred and forty secondary school teachers drawn from the four divisions of Ogun State, Nigeria took part in the study. The findings revealed that the prevalent non-conforming behaviour of the students are: lateness, disobeying rules, insulting fellow students, leaving...

This paper analyses the contextual reasons for low enrolment and high dropout figures in Ugandan schools, particularly for women. It explains the extent to which sociocultural, economic, policy, and political factors are obstacles to the education of women in particular. It is partly based on the findings of study carried out in Uganda's Eastern District of Kamuli in 1996 by UNICEF/ACTIONAID Uganda in which the author was the team leader. Both primary and secondary comparative data show that...

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews Education and Independence: Education in South Africa, 1658–1988. By Simphiwe A. Hlatshwayo Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. 132 pp. $57.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐313‐30056‐9.Ann E. Austin Ann E. AustinAssociate Professor Michigan State University Search for more articles by this author Associate Professor Michigan State UniversityPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share...

In most parts of the world, social work fieldwork education takes for granted that the different stakeholders in the fieldwork learning process - students, academic staff, and field instructors - are dedicated to their task and can carry it through, yet this assumption does not always hold. This article examines one such situation, in Botswana, and several measures that have been introduced to tackle it.

Upper Cretaceous continental break-up between Madagascar and Greater India resulted in intense volcanic activity throughout the island, but mostly in the east coast. The Morondava Basin, southwest Madagascar, was capped 88 Ma ago by volcanic formations triggered by this event. Mineral and bulk rock compositions reveal two groups of suites. The high Ti-P group is composed of olivine basalts and a ferrobasalt-basalt-andesitic basalt series. The low Ti-P group comprises genetically unrelated...

The crusade by the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe witnessed in I999 during the Constitutional Commission's outreach programme was designed to have Christianity declared the official religion of Zimbabwe. This has the danger of claiming all the religious space for Christianity. This article examines the implications for the teaching ofAfi-ican Traditional Religions (A TRs) in the University of Zimbabwe. It is argued that the preponderance of Christianity and the emergence of...

Sangatronics is a nationwide program to provide practical electronics instruction for students taking advanced level physics. It comprises five-day courses at a youth camp, where an intensive combination of theory, experiment and recreation has proved effective for over 2000 students. The locally-produced electronics kits and course notes are described in the paper, together with an evaluation of the project.

The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of negative symptoms among Nigerian schizophrenics with the view to highlighting the critical aspects of the management of the disorder that require psycho-therapeutic intervention for an improved mental health care system. Fifty consecutive attendants of the Jos University Teaching Hospital psychiatric outpatient clinic with a previous diagnosis of schizophrenia were systematically sampled. Thirty-five (70%) of the subjects were males...

The article outlines a case study whereby, in a BEd module on innovative teaching and learning strategies, students were challenged with the question: "How does co-operative learning relate to social constructivist learning theory, ubuntu, outcomes-based education (OBE) and (perhaps) the African Renaissance?" It describes how the students, through a co-operative learning process, researched and debated the question in four groups. The author's concerns that the students' view of educational...

To determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in a group of peri-urban black South Africans.Cross-sectional study in which an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed on each subject.Two of the largest factories in the surroundings of Umtata, the capital of the former homeland of Transkei, South Africa.A total of 374 Xhosa-speaking factory workers.Frequency of diabetes mellitus and IGT according to age group and gender using the current World...

This inter-disciplinary study compares the health status of school-age children in Ghana, both enrolled and non-enrolled, and examines these results within a wider socio-economic and socio-cultural context including kinship and livelihood. Children matched for age and sex who were not enrolled in Primary School were significantly shorter and more stunted than enrolled children were, and 70% of all Primary school-age children were anaemic. Young children from farming communities were...

Low moisture stress is one of the most important abiotic constraints limiting bread wheat production and area expansion in Ethiopia. To alleviate this problem, evaluation of varieties in drought prone areas has been undertaken from 1996 to1998. In this study, eighteen bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties were tested at five low moisture stress locations. Appropriate standard and local checks were included at each location. There were significant differences among varieties for grain...

Early identification of hearing loss followed by a timely and effective intervention programme for children with hearing impairment is necessary to minimise the negative effects of hearing loss on the development of cognition, psychosocial and verbal communication skills. Such early intervention programmes need to be multidisciplinary, technologically sound and most important, it should take cognizance of the specific context (community, country) in which the child and family function. The...

In this article I reflect on how a changing South African socio-political milieu provided space for collaboration among Australian and South African higher education institutions. I describe how the different activities of a project entitled, Educating for Socio-Ecological Change: Capacity-Building in Environmental Education, provided challenges for all participants in the light of processes of globalisation and internationalisation currently prevalent. I provide insights on how...

A ZJER comparitive research on school effectiveness in the developing world with emphasis on Malawian schools.

Social work education in Zimbabwe began with the establishment of the School of Social Work in 1964. Prior to this, the country relied on social workers trained in Britain, South Africa and Zambia . The initial focus of social work education was on training cadres who would work with groups of unemployed youths and women in urban areas. Thus, the programmes were introduced to address urban social ills. The major strengths of colonial social work education were that it provided the foundation...

A 19 activity extracurricular school-based AIDS education programme lasting 1 year was conducted in rural southwestern Uganda using specially trained teachers, and was evaluated using mutually supportive quantitative and qualitative methods. In total, 1274 students from 20 intervention schools and 803 students from 11 control schools completed questionnaires at baseline, and their classes were followed up. In addition, 93 students from five of the intervention schools participated in 12...