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Nigeria is a multilingual society with about 250 different languages accompanied by many dialects. Such a situation makes for a comfortable adoption of the English language as the official language of government and as the language of instruction in schools. Internal politics apart, the English language affords Nigerians easy communication among the many linguistic groups in the country and with other English speaking peoples all over the world. The position the English language holds in...
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A list of 53 primary schools was obtained from Ikorodu Local Government of Lagos State, Nigeria. Five primary schools were chosen from the list by numerical series which had a total of 4,515 pupils representing 13.6#pc of the total primary school population. Two hundred and fifty pupils were chosen randomly using Fisher#shYates random sample table. The following information enumerated from the study. Chi‐square value [P#lt.05] showed relationship between the PCV level and nutritional status...
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In Ethiopia only one-fourth of primary school-age girls are actually enrolled. Despite progress since the 1974 revolution, 57% of all females who enter grade 1 drop out before reaching grade 2. This paper reports on regional variation in girls' persistence through primary school and performance on the national exam. We then examine the relative influence of community characteristics and school qualities in explaining female persistence and performance, based on a sample of 182 schools and...
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This study involves six English Second Language Teachers working in two different Education Departments responsible for the education of Blacks in South Africa. The teachers participated in a Participatory Research process towards developing a critical discourse in materials development for classroom use. -- This thesis is divided into two parts. The first describes an exploratory process in which the participants responded to specific research questions through a procedure of general...
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Preface Black Adult Education before 1860 Adult Education within the Slave Community by L. H. Whiteaker Education of Free Blacks before the Civil War by Elizabeth L. Ihle Black Adult Education during the Civil War and Reconstruction Black Adult Education during the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Bobby L. Lovett Schooling for Freed People: The Education of Adult Freedmen, 1861- 1871 by Ronald E. Butchart Black Adult Education, 1890-1980 Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver: A Tandem of...
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The early 1960s and early 1970s witnessed massive science education reform activities aimed at a more utilitarian interpretation of science education for pupils in both developed and developing countries. Two basic strategies can be identified. The first, which was predominant, focused attention on the nature of the science curriculum. The second focused on improving teaching and learning in schools and other institutions without large-scale reform of materials. Reforms of the first type...
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The first decades of the nineteenth century saw a decisive shift in the relationship between European civilization and those of Africa and Asia. From merchants trading on the coastal periphery of Africa and Asia, the Europeans became the conquerors of vast land empires: the British greatly enlarged the colony they had been building in India since the mid-eighteenth century; the Dutch consolidated their hold over Java; and on the southern tip of Africa, settlers, mainly of Dutch descent,...
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The study of the pattern of osteoarthritis in different populations may yield valuable aetiological clues and also allow subtypes to be defined. Over one year 252 osteoarthritic joints from 140 patients seen at a West African teaching hospital were prospectively reviewed. The knee was the joint most often affected. Hip and hand disease, as well as Heberden's nodes, were uncommon. Joint disease was predominantly monoarticular; no patient had three or more sites affected.
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Abstract This study investigated the problem solving difficulties of Pre‐service Chemistry teachers. A sample of 300 students in three Colleges of Education in Bendel State, Nigeria, participated in the study. The research instruments employed were three written tests and an interview. The analyses of the students’ responses to the written tests and problem solving protocols revealed that: (i) most of the students were capable of constructing appropriate mental representations of the...
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In the 1980's a dramatic increase in graduate and school leaver unemployment in Morocco, raised the question of the relevance of education. Education was often blamed by policy-makers and employers for graduate unemployment and for the mismatch between supply and demand observed in the labour market. In this context, the state launched a reform of vocational training aimed at developing the vocational and practical training supposedly needed by the private sector and the economy. But the...
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Abstract This paper integrates public opinion with research findings on Nigeria's mother tongue education policy by examining the historical antecedents of the policy; its specifications and implications; and the major arguments for and against the policy. In addition to highlighting major obstacles that might hamper the implementation of the policy, the findings reveal that mother tongue education policies in ex‐colonial nations often represent two main types of struggle, one against...
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This study originates from an ELT curriculum innovation in Benin,leading to the adoption of a textbook which emphasizes the development of communicative skills, chiefly through pair/group work. It describesthe experimental INSET set up to introduce its new methodology, and which has been evaluated through the comparison of teaching and learning by experimental classes with control classes. It also identifies, through a questionnaire, INSET processes considered as most effective. It finds...
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Abstract Factors influencing students’ choice of teaching subjects in a Nigerian pre‐service primary teacher education programme were investigated. A marked imbalance in the pattern of choice of teaching subjects in favour of the humanities was found. Students’ choice of teaching subjects in the third year of the programme seems to be influenced by their level of performance in the chosen subjects during their first 2 years in the programme, job and further education opportunities offered by...