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∗∗ A version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education, March‐April 1989. I thank Pam Christie, Shirley Pendlebury and Peter Randall for comments and suggestions.

Kandioura Drame: The novel as transformation myth: a study of the novels of Mongo Beti and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. (Foreign and Comparative Studies. African Series, 43.) xi, 123 pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1990. - Volume 55 Issue 3

The study was conducted to investigate the teaching of history with respect to four associated problems, viz., the basic reasoning for the placement of history in the senior secondary school curriculum, the practices and processes of syllabus development, the teaching strategies, methods and techniques, and the teaching materials used both in the past and the present. To e d both historical and descriptive-survey research techniques were employed. The historical research} ~ (attempted to...

Inservice training in multicultural education helps provide special education classroom teachers with the additional competencies needed to work more effectively with African-American students with disabilities. A pilot study was conducted to assess the perceptions of special education administrators in Ohio about multicultural inservice training and the nature of their exposure to multicultural education. Results indicate that special education administrators perceive that special education...

This article discusses the cultural and educational needs of African-American learners with disabilities. Six theoretical assumptions establish some basic suppositions about culturally and linguistically diverse learners and effective instructional practices. A review of the literature describes African-American cultural practices, interests, and cognitive styles; highlights the attitudes, perceptions, and instructional practices of effective teachers of African-American students; and...

Two traditions have combined to contribute to a form of discourse that is detrimental to the participation of African-American parents in special education procedures: first, a deficit view of African-American families and, second, the deficit view of children's learning difficulties on which P.L. 94–142 is based. These deficit views, together with the focus by many professional educators on legal compliance rather than collaboration, have cast parents in the role of consent-giver in a...

Abstract This article offers a novel interpretation of a highly complex and deadly form of pollution ( nueer ) that powerfully shapes contemporary social relations among the Nuer of Sudan. Through a careful examination of the myriad events thought to trigger off the condition nueer , the author challenges earlier attempts by Evans-Pritchard to interpret this condition via Judaeo-Christian notions of ‘sin’. It is argued that nueer is better understood as a pollution concept that...

A survey of the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and protective sexual behaviors among a population of African-American male college students demonstrates that although monogamy, avoidance of casual sexual activity, and the avoidance of the use of drugs and alcohol during sexual activity tends to decrease the risk of exposure to human immunodeficiency virus, consistent condom use is the only sexually related behavior that is significantly protective.

Summarizes the findings and recommendations of a 1991 survey of higher education libraries in Papua New Guinea. Six major libraries were identified as the major building blocks of a proposed Papua New Guinea Library and Information Network (PNGLINET). The situation of most other higher education libraries was very poor.

21 Hispanic American students in an urban New Jersey high school obtained higher depression and suicidal ideation scores than 42 African-American students.

Digest of Middle East StudiesVolume 1, Issue 4 p. 44-49 Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth-Century Notable: Dale F. Eickelman Mimoun Mokhtari Ph.D., Mimoun Mokhtari Ph.D. Ecole des Sciences de l'Information, RabatSearch for more papers by this author Mimoun Mokhtari Ph.D., Mimoun Mokhtari Ph.D. Ecole des Sciences de l'Information, RabatSearch for more papers by this author First published: Fall 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-3606.1992.tb00394.xAboutPDF...

A unique 5-year program designed to improve the quality and availability of anesthesia care in developing nations has been initiated in East Africa. Based upon North American anesthesiologists serving as volunteer teachers, the program emphasizes teaching to the exclusion of taking over anesthesia care. The teaching is practical and relevant to the clinical practice of anesthesia in developing countries. The volunteers teachers serve, one at a time, 12 months of the year for several years in...

Combination of questionnaire and interview instruments was used to obtain information from the Head Librarians of 45 major Nigerian special libraries in government supported institutions. The questionnaire dealt with the years they learnt about information technology and its applications in special library services, the methods of training in information technology and their applications in special library services. Analysis of information obtained revealed that those who first formally...

African-American students who fail in school programs are presumed to have a “low” self-concept. However, this view fails to recognize self-concept as an observable, describable, situation-specific, and measurable phenomenon. In addition, it ignores the cultural biases and prejudices inherent in current self-concept assessment tools. In contrast, the operational model of self-concept, which defines self-descriptive behavior, permits identification of styles, strengths, and weaknesses in the...

In a ten year period (1977--1986) one hundred and fifty children with hydrocephalus who received ventriculo-peritoneal shunt as their modality of treatment were followed up. Seventy-one per cent of these children were neonates and infants, the majority of them presenting within the first 3 months of onset of symptoms and signs. The major causes of hydrocephalus in these children were congenital malformations, meningitis, tumours and trauma. Pudenz shunt systems were favoured in the 1977--81...

Schistosoma mansoni is often perceived by governments and international aid agencies to present a major public health problem in the tropical and sub-tropical world. This perception persists in spite of the fact that biomedical practitioners and research workers disagree about the nature and extent of disease and disability caused by schistosomes. This paper raises the question of whether S. mansoni should continue to be given priority as a public health problem in Gezira Province, Sudan....