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The official school mathematics curriculum - textbooks, teacher's handbooks, and syllabus - has a powerful influence on classroom practice in a developing country like Ghana, where many teachers with low teaching qualifications hardly ever have access to other sources of information and activity for their teaching. The official mathematics curriculum for Ghanaian primary schools was originally written with the small intellectual elite, who will proceed to secondary and further education, in...
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Abstract : While many Americans may be numbed by the violence and human suffering that plagues Sub-Saharan Africa, the horror of Rwanda was so acute that it moved all save the most hardened observers. Moreover, coming on the heels of the debacle in Somalia, Rwanda raised the prospect of a mounting series of events across Africa which might require U.S. or multinational responses. In addition to easing the plight of the Rwandan people, we must draw strategic lessons from this crisis in order...
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Leaders throughout America have urged the education community to focus on the shortage of certified minority teachers in elementary and secondary education (e.g., Baez & Clarke, 1989-1990; Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, 1986; Franklin, 1987; Gill, 1989). The leaders have stressed the need for minority students to identify with educators who can serve as role models and mentors. They have emphasized the importance of students receiving some of their instruction from teachers...
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High maternal mortality and morbidity rates are a challenge for all involved in the care of mothers and babies. One response takes the form of an educational programme led by professional midwives to teach traditional birth attendants to recognize risk conditions and improve their care of mothers and babies. Such a programme was organized as part of a Canadian-Nigerian safe motherhood initiative, and carried out in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
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In the run-up to the first non-racial democratic elections held in April 1994 voter education targeted all South Africans to promote free and fair elections. A particular challenge for the campaign launched by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was to reach illiterate and rural citizens. A nationwide representative sample survey conducted shortly after the elections sought to evaluate the effectiveness of voter education. The dataset pertaining to African first-time voters (n = I...
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Aquatic pollution in Cote d9Ivoire is severe in several places. The Ivorian government therefore requested and later obtained technical assistance from the Danish government for the training of personnel and the equipment of an environmental central laboratory and of a pollution combating unit. The structure CIAPOL (Centre Ivorian Anti-Pollution) in charge of setting up the two components of the project, was created by the government of Cote d9Ivoire in May 1991. A coastal and a continental...
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II était utile d'actualiser l'étude sur l'évolution de la pluviométrie en Afrique de l'Ouest. Le calcul de la nouvelle normale de référence pour les pluies de la période 1961-1990 en a été l'occasion. La première étape est l'analyse de plus d'un millier de postes pluviométriques, fournissant de longues séries de données, pour rechercher l'année de changement de tendance. La justification du choix de l'année 1968 pour le début de la sécheresse est discutée. La comparaison entre la période...
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African-American preadolescent children attended Saturday programs on African heritage and history offered at an African-American heritage center located in their neighborhood. Assessments of participants and control groups of nonparticipants at the end of years one and two indicated that attending the program increased knowledge of Africa, positive attitudes about Africa, and preferences for African and African-American materials in the school curriculum. Attendance was unrelated to the...
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The long road to Africa Northern Rhodesia and Zambia the copperbelt days the land of the river back to civilization? the northern marches impressions vignettes the final analysis.