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Transnational education (TNE) is becoming a phenomenon in the world of education in many countries. Morocco is included. The flourishing and spreading of many foreign educational institutions, products, and activities is becoming noticeable.As an Islamic nation, Morocco has long maintained its business and educational ties with different foreign nations. It has also maintained its traditional means of education alongside the adapted European style of education which spread all over the...

Pedagogy of the Post-RacialThe Texts, Textiles, and Teachings of African American Women Shanna Greene Benjamin (bio) She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them. —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God I…I don’t know you, Mrs. Keckley. Any of you. —Abraham Lincoln to Elizabeth Keckley in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln When we are not “public,” with all the word connotes for black people then how do we live and who are we? —Elizabeth Alexander, The...

In this article, we describe a particular aspect of the teaching-learning process: students' cooperation.Our research attempts to understand the modalities of student engagement at a private institution in Tunisia.We mobilize the theoretical framework of the ecology of physical education (Tousignant, 1982) as a framework for this research.The data results from video recording and ethnographic observations of a gymnastics cycle conducted by a teacher specialist of tennis.The study was...

The use of information and communication technology in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings often this creates some tensions for some teachers and students. But with the rapid movement of the world into the information society, the role of ICT in education is becoming more and more important and its development will be continued through distance learning. It is one of the most rapidly growing fields of education which is becoming accepted and indispensable in the...

World War I (WW1) is widely recognised as an event of critical significance and far-reaching consequences, a violent episode of unprecedented magnitude which affected millions of lives and which brought lasting change to the world in which we live. One hundred years after the outbreak of this global war, successive younger generations across the globe have been taught about this watershed event in world history. This paper seeks to fill a notable gap in extant research on WW1 by exploring...

This paper illustrates the main geomorphological features of the Lakes Region (Main Ethiopian Rift) which resulted from the interplay of Late Quaternary climatic and hydrological changes with volcanism and tectonics typical of an active continental rift. Studies carried out over several decades demonstrated that the evolution of Late Pleistocene–Holocene fluvio-lacustrine systems, recorded by a plethora of geomorphic and stratigraphic features, was forced by abrupt hydro-climatic events of...

around the ways in which space and time work together to configure memory. Jean Sgard opens the volume by exploring the interactions between external and subjective worlds that shape happiness as reminiscence in La nouvelle Héloïse and the Confessions. Taking as point of departure Rousseau’s fascination with time distilled into instants or turning points that forever alter the course of events, Claude Labrosse’s six articles on La nouvelle Héloïse show the intricacy of Rousseau’s use of...

Objective: Weight status at age six years has been identified as an important predictor of overweight and obesity in adolescence, which, in turn, tracks into adulthood, increasing the risk of future metabolic diseases. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity in six-year-old children in 4th and 5th quintile schools in Mangaung as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the problem among parents and educators. Design: The study design was cross-sectional and...

ReferencesObjective: Weight status at age six years has been identified as an important predictor of overweight and obesity in adolescence, which, in turn, tracks into adulthood, increasing the risk of future metabolic diseases. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity in six-year-old children in 4th and 5th quintile schools in Mangaung as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the problem among parents and educators.Design: The study design was cross-sectional...

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate food insecurity in students in a developing country with high national food insecurity.Design: This was a cross-sectional survey.Subjects and setting: Registered students at the University of the Free State were invited to participate. Thirty-one thousand and fourteen students were enrolled in 2013. One thousand, four hundred and sixteen students completed a self-administered web-based questionnaire.Outcome measures: Food insecurity...

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group, mostly...

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group, mostly...

There is a large interest in biofuels in Ethiopia as a substitute to petroleum-based fuels, with a purpose of enhancing energy security and promoting rural development.Ethiopia has announced a national biofuel production in the GTP in order to secure energy in the rural part and urban of Ethiopia.Its implications need to be studied intensively considering the fact that Ethiopia is a developing country with high population density and large rural population depending upon land for their...

The study sought to find out the relationship between incentive management and job involvement among teachers in technical schools in Cameroon. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The sample population consisted of 252 teachers randomly selected from a population of 580 teachers. Data for the study were collected using an instrument made by the researcher called Incentive Management and Job involvement Questionnaire (IMJIQ). Data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment...