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The 1996 constitution of the Republic of South Africa establishes a range of rights including the right to gender equity. Careful observation shows that gender equity in South African education is far from being achieved. There is no education policy directed at ending gender inequity and there seems to be little focus on implementing the recommendations of the countrys Gender Equity Task Team Report for eliminating sexism and the sexual harassment of female students and teachers. This...

Service-Learning has become a well-established educational strategy. This practice-based teaching-learning method allows students to develop relevant competencies while addressing the needs of a community. The recurrence of drought in Ethiopia necessitates a health workforce with requisite competencies in drought response. This article describes a successful Service-Learning experience and its outcomes that affected over 10 million Ethiopians. The 2006 World Health Report calls for an...

In this paper, the focus is upon daily school practices in Junior Secondary Schools in Ghana and Botswana. The data from 12 ethnographic case studies have been used to explore how the institution of schooling is gendered. The analysis focuses predominantly on the informal practices of the hidden curriculum through a theoretical perspective that highlights these institutional processes as significant to the production of gender/sexual identities. Remarkable similarities in the pervasive and...

The study examined some areas of the Senior Secondary School Certificate syllabus which teachers find difficult to teach and students find difficult to understand. One hundred teachers and one hundred and fifty students constituted the sample of the study while all the teachers and students in the North Senatorial District of Delta State served as the population. A 28 item questionnaire served as instrument for collecting data while mean and t-test were employed in the analysis of data....

Induction of labor is always a challenge to many an obstetrician more so when the cervix is unfavorable.To determine the efficacy and safety ofmisoprostol in cervical ripening and labour induction.Aprospective study spanning 2 years and involving 151 patients admitted for cervical ripening and induction of labor at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. 50 microgram (mcg) ofmisoprostol was inserted vaginally every 4 hours until cervix became favorable or onset of...

(2007). South African Teachers' Voices on Support in Inclusive Education. Childhood Education: Vol. 83, International Focus Issue 2007, pp. 351-355.

(2007). South African Teachers' Voices on Support in Inclusive Education. Childhood Education: Vol. 83, International Focus Issue 2007, pp. 351-355.

(2007). South African Teachers' Voices on Support in Inclusive Education. Childhood Education: Vol. 83, International Focus Issue 2007, pp. 351-355.

(2007). South African Teachers' Voices on Support in Inclusive Education. Childhood Education: Vol. 83, International Focus Issue 2007, pp. 351-355.

This study examines emotional intelligence and goal setting in enhancing motivation to work among visually impaired students. The study employed a pre- and post-test experimental group design (N = 32) in which participants completed the Work Value Inventory. The study was carried out over a period of six weeks. The results obtained indicated that there was significant difference in the level of motivation of those who had experienced emotional intelligence and goal setting interventions ( F...

Cedrus atlantica ring width data are used to reconstruct long‐term changes in the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) over the past 953 years in Morocco, NW Africa. The reconstruction captures the dry conditions since the 1980s well and places this extreme period within a millennium‐long context. PDSI values were above average for most of the 1450–1980 period, which let recent drought appear exceptional. However, our results also indicate that this pluvial episode of the past millennium was...

Cedrus atlantica ring width data are used to reconstruct long‐term changes in the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) over the past 953 years in Morocco, NW Africa. The reconstruction captures the dry conditions since the 1980s well and places this extreme period within a millennium‐long context. PDSI values were above average for most of the 1450–1980 period, which let recent drought appear exceptional. However, our results also indicate that this pluvial episode of the past millennium was...

Cedrus atlantica ring width data are used to reconstruct long‐term changes in the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) over the past 953 years in Morocco, NW Africa. The reconstruction captures the dry conditions since the 1980s well and places this extreme period within a millennium‐long context. PDSI values were above average for most of the 1450–1980 period, which let recent drought appear exceptional. However, our results also indicate that this pluvial episode of the past millennium was...

Cedrus atlantica ring width data are used to reconstruct long‐term changes in the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) over the past 953 years in Morocco, NW Africa. The reconstruction captures the dry conditions since the 1980s well and places this extreme period within a millennium‐long context. PDSI values were above average for most of the 1450–1980 period, which let recent drought appear exceptional. However, our results also indicate that this pluvial episode of the past millennium was...

Cedrus atlantica ring width data are used to reconstruct long‐term changes in the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) over the past 953 years in Morocco, NW Africa. The reconstruction captures the dry conditions since the 1980s well and places this extreme period within a millennium‐long context. PDSI values were above average for most of the 1450–1980 period, which let recent drought appear exceptional. However, our results also indicate that this pluvial episode of the past millennium was...

The terrestrial biosphere is an important global carbon (C) sink, with the potential to drive large positive climate feedbacks. Thus a better understanding of interactions between land use change, climate change and the terrestrial biosphere is crucial in planning future land management options. Climate change has the potential to alter terrestrial C storage since changes in temperature, precipitation and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations could affect net primary production (NPP), C inputs...

Children often consume foods from outside the home (OH foods), which can decrease the accuracy of dietary recalls collected from the parents. The objectives of this study were to describe the types and composition of OH foods consumed by rural school-aged Kenyan children, to assess their contribution to the daily intake of the child, and to evaluate the ability of the mother to estimate intake of OH foods. To capture any seasonal differences, the study was conducted twice, once during a food...

Following political turmoil and rising socio-economic difficulties, Côte d'Ivoire has been split into two since September 2002. The rebellion controls the northern part of the country and the main towns of Bouaké, Korhogo and Man, while the government controls the southern part with Abidjan, Yamoussoukro, Daloa and all the ports in the coastal area. At the beginning of the war, civil servants who were in place in the north of the country were called back to Abidjan to be redeployed in...

ABSTRACT Drawing on interviews with young migrants who have moved from rural, farming households in northeastern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana, this article explores the inter‐connections between children's migration and children's access to formal and non‐formal education. In contrast to the positive light in which education is usually presented, the findings of the research suggest a more ambiguous and complex picture, and illuminate both positive and...