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Debates about the major causes of teacher shortage have centered on issues such as insufficient numbers of people preparing to teach, early attrition of those in the teaching pool and increased student enrolments and teacher retirements. While each of these factors may be particularly significant in a given country and at a given time, there is evidence that in Ghana and many countries currently facing a teacher shortage problem, attrition, that is, those teachers who leave the profession...
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Today almost every worker claims to be a professional and their occupation a profession. To teachers the question of professionalism is very important; it influences the quality of education they provide for children as well as the quality of their lives as teachers. Yet, how professionalism is defined and what constitute a profession have been sites of academic and ideological struggle between union leaders, bureaucrats and academics played out in a variety of settings. This paper reports...
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The problem of getting sufficient numbers of qualified teachers to staff classrooms is one of the most significant public policy issues facing many countries. In Ghana, the problem of teacher shortage has been a perennial one, necessitated by educational expansion as well as adverse socio-economic and political circumstances, and exacerbated by high attrition rate. Efforts to find a solution are still ongoing. This paper aims to contribute to the search for solutions to the teacher shortage...
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The influence of teacher efficacy beliefs on children’s cognitive achievements and success at school is accepted among educators internationally and well established in the literature. Yet, teachers’ sense of efficacy beliefs in the various aspects of their work at different levels of the education system continues to be investigated by researchers. Within the context of a developing country implementing a new curriculum, this study explores the efficacy beliefs of kindergarten teachers...
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After having encountered the phenomenon of teaching out-of-field in South Africa (teaching a subject that teachers are under-qualified for or even unqualified), the authors felt compelled to research the manifestation thereof in two adjacent provinces in South Africa namely KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. Quality teaching is directly affected by this phenomenon but it appears as if the influence of this phenomenon has so far been overlooked. The two areas that were selected in these two...
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Organizations that provide capacity development services within the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector aim to improve access to water and sanitation through improved implementation of WASH projects. A key challenge for these organizations is a lack of clarity on how their results should be measured. Through a series of university research partnerships, the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology has developed an evaluation methodology to enable organizations to...
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In this study, we examined the effects of cognitive appraisals and individual differences in discomfort with uncertainty, as measured by a short form of Webster and Kruglanski's (1994) Need for Closure (NFC) scale, on African American college students' self-reported H1N1 vaccination decisions during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic.Howard University undergraduates, who self-identified as Black or African American and met U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control...
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This study examines the systems by which adolescent boys receive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education in Kapchorwa, Uganda. Teenage pregnancy and early marriage are epidemics that hinder Uganda’s development. As girls have consistently been the targets of interventions, this study considers how boys are included in these strategies. The objectives of the study are three-‐fold: ...
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This study investigates the leadership practice of setting directions in secondary schools in Mauritius. This issue is important because nowadays there is a call for school leaders to be accountable. For this study, a questionnaire was distributed to school leaders (n=23) to see how they address this issue. The data was analysed through a framework based on the various concepts which have emerged from a review of the literature on setting directions. Findings show that most school leaders...
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The study investigated factors influencing the formation of necrophobia among student nurses in Zimbabwe. A purposive sample of seventy student nurses and forty-one qualified nurses and nurse tutors participated in the study. Data were collected using questionnaires, observation guide and documentary analysis. Researchers also analysed students’ notes on last processes and tutors’ schemes on shrouding to get an in depth understanding of how they approached a sensitive topic like shrouding....
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The influence of environmental and contextual factors on human development and behaviors among adolescents is well documented in the literature. The discourse surrounding urban African American high school students has largely failed to take into consideration how these factors relate to the postsecondary academic aspirations and motivations, performance, and success of these students. Stewart, Stewart, and Simons (2007) assessed the extent to which the neighborhood context predicts the...
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This article analyses vulnerability to climate related shocks across five districts in the shire river basin of Malawi.The analysis employs an indicator approach that integrates biophysical and socio-economic indices.Principal component statistical analysis was used to calculate an index for adaptive capacity, sensitivity and exposure to climate impact for each of the five districts.These indices were aggregated to develop a vulnerability index differentiated also by gender for the surveyed...
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Coral reefs are arguably the most threatened marine habitat because of multiple anthropogenic stressors degrading the health and resilience of these systems. In the past 20 years there have been increasing observations of mass coral bleaching and mortality associated with increasing water temperatures in the tropics. Reefs provide ecosystem services worth billions of dollars to people living in tropical coastal areas and are the architects of one of the most beautiful structures found on...