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Ghana faces tremendous challenges in education with a national focus on replicating the conditions and processes for improving student learning throughout the country. High drop out rates, low scores on international tests, and lack of resources plague the educational system, contributing to quantity producing educational practices instead of quality. A network analysis approach and assessments of classroom climate provided the means to map and determine conditions and processes that can be...
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The focus of this paper is on the perceptions of Grade 10 learners regarding the role Life Orientation teach ers played in subject selection. Seven randomly selected secondary-schools from the Free State province were included in the project. The sample consisted out of 430 learners of which the majority was Afrikaans speaking females of middle socio-economic status. Responses were given in the form of narratives based on open-ended questions. Examination of the discourse was informed by...
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Purpose: The objective of this research is to determine the participation of physically disabled Zambian adolescents and young adults (10-24 years) with and without assistive devices and provide insight in their experienced barriers and facilitators towards that participation. Design: A three-months during cross-sectional and quasi-experimental study was conducted in Zambia. Adolescents and young adults with different physical disabilities at their lower extremities (i.e., paralysis,...
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Self‐leadership is an enabling process during which a male student nurse learns to know himself better. This enriched self‐awareness enables him to steer his work life. Male learners in the nursing profession could face gender‐based challenges during their training that requires self‐leadership. The study described the best experiences of self‐leadership by male learner nurses during their four‐year training programme at a nursing college in the Western Cape Province. A qualitative,...
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This research studied the relationship between student’s gender and academic performance in computer science in New Bussa, Borgu local government of Niger state. Questionnaire which consist of 30 multiple-choice items drawn from Senior School Certificate Examination past questions as set by the West Africa Examination Council in 2014 multiple choice past question was used as the research instrument consist. The questionnaire was administered to 275 students from both private and public...
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The importance of training and development is more obvious given the growing complexity of the work environment, the rapid change in organizations and advancement in technology, among other things. The ultimate aim of any training program is to add value and once a training program cannot add value, it should be reworked or altogether cancelled. Without training, it will be very difficult to acquire skills and without skills organizations will not achieve its objectives through people.
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This article suggest a model for teaching French from an African-centered perspective as a logical response to global demographic, literary, and economic shifts in the cultural landscape. As the African continent is becoming a significant space of economic development, literary production, as well as home to the majority of the world’s French speakers, this article proposes specific curricular considerations to adequately address these changes. Within the pedagogical context of content and...
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This erratum corrects article: "Maternal mortality in Cameroon: a university teaching hospital report." The Pan African Medical Journal. 2015;21:16. doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.21.16.3912[This corrects the article on p. 16 in vol. 21, PMID: 26401210.].
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This study explores the preferences of Moroccan university students for their first employment. More precisely, the study investigates the relationship between the preferences of students for working either for public or private companies and whether their choices are affected by several factors such as preference for high job salaries, job security, career development and work responsibility. In addition, the study identifies differences between the preferences of male and female students,...
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This study explores African American educators’ ideas about school completion in the 1920s and 1930s as a way to begin to understand their contributions to the historical discourse on school completion. Using publications from African American professional teaching organizations, the author elevates and examines how African American educators both discussed and engaged in rhetoric around high school completion. The study finds that African American educators primarily advocated for...