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Student Engagement in South African Higher Education Matthew R. Wawrzynski (bio), Ashleigh M. Heck (bio), and Christopher T. Remley (bio) The relationship between student engagement and student outcome achievement is well documented in the higher education literature for US students (Astin, 1993; Kuh, 2003; Kuh, Kinzie, Schuh, & Whitt, 2005; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005) and has recently gained traction for students in other countries such as Australia (Krause, 2007a, 2007b; Krause & Coates,...
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This article focuses on the state of demographic transition in Ethiopia and describes the current situation of population growth as well as its ramifications in the fields of Maternal Health, HIV/AIDS, Education, Migration and Urbanization, Food Security, Security, and Gender. Approaches to tackle the challenges posed by demographic transition are portrayed featuring the response of the Ethiopian Government. The example used is Integrated Functional Adult Education (IFAE), implemented...
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From the Known to the Unknown: Pattern, Mathematics and Learning in Papua New GuineaWere, G. - 2012
During the late 1990s, the Papua New Guinean Department of Education introduced a new elementary school mathematics curriculum that utilised the country’s rich and diverse cultural traditions. The resulting changes saw patterns, one of a family of practices related to the decorative arts, take on a prominent role as a tool for understanding number, space, time, measurement, all of which form the basis of mathematics. Drawing primarily on the author’s own anthropological fieldwork, this...
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Sexual expression is a basic human need throughout our lives. Sexual behaviour of young people has been a source of concern to societies worldwide due to the adverse effects on the individual as well as society at large. As a result a significant proportion of youth with disabilit ies (YWD) is infected by HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections mainly through sexual intercourse, while on the other hand prevalence of unwanted pregnancies is rising. The main objective of this study...
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Climate change impacts fall disproportionately on the world’s poorest, most marginalised communities, particularly those highly dependent on direct use of natural resources, such as subsistence fishing communities. Vulnerability to climate change includes social and ecological factors; therefore efforts to reduce vulnerability and build resilience must target both. In Madagascar, generalised initiatives developed at the national level address vulnerability, adding to a variety of...
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This article examines how South African newspapers report on the activities of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) regarding human rights violations in South African schools over a five-year period (1 January 2005 to 31 December 2009). The overarching research question that guided this study is: Can the media play a role in cultivating and creating a particular view of human rights violations in schools and advocate policy change through their framing of the activities of the...
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This chapter gives an overview of religious education in Egypt. This is pre-dominantly Islamic, but there is also Christian religious education to serve the Christian minority. Education in Egypt is predominantly public, and religious education is compulsory. There is an Islamic and Christian variant of religious education for the Muslim and Christian pupils respectively. A quite extensive overview of the goals and content of Islamic religious education is added that shows that religious...
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Rehema is a five-year-old boarding student at a private school on the outskirts of a small city in western Tanzania. Even though this school is a full day’s travel away from her home and the cost to go there is nearly prohibitive, Rehema attends preschool there because her parents believe it will help her succeed in primary school and beyond. While few Tanzanian families can afford a private school education, Rehema’s situation is a symbol of how early childhood education has captured the...
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The purpose of this paper was to determine whether violation of students’ human rights by principals and teachers in Cross River State, Nigeria was influenced by school location. One Thousand (1000) students were selected by the multi-stage sampling technique from fifty (50) secondary schools across the three educational zones of the state. The urban, semi urban and rural student ratio was 210:250:540. The researchers constructed a Student’ Legal Rights Protection Questionnaire (SLRPQ), a...