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This paper compares the effectiveness of in‐house developed computer‐based learning (CBL) materials with face‐to‐face teaching. Two groups of higher education students were randomly assigned to complete tutorial work in one highly structured topic of introductory accounting using either CBL materials (treatment group) or face‐to‐face teaching (control group). The effectiveness of both approaches was measured according to the students’ performance in a class test, in relation to their prior...
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Objective: To test the efficacy of a school-based human immunodeficiency virus/sexually transmitted disease (HIV/STD) risk-reduction intervention for South African adolescents.Design: A cluster-randomized, controlled design with assessments of self-reported sexual behavior collected before intervention and 3, 6, and 12 months after intervention.Setting: Primary schools in a large, black township and a neighboring rural settlement in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.Participants: Nine of...
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This paper registers that there is a strong relationship between the prevailing global discourse on Education for Sustainable Development and Democracy in Education. As such, in order for any nation to be seen to be having a relevant and quality education, its education system should be seen to be addressing the principles of democracy in a more direct and robust way. The role of education in advancing the global dream of sustainable development-which of late is also being marshalled by...
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Abstract The State, envisioning a social function reserved for the fine arts, is engaged in driving the artistic destinies of the country. These politics were imposed as the example of a religion of the state.... But the slow instruction of the masses that has endured since 1908 deviated from the interest of our artists that was formed in the course of these twenty-three years. —Muhammad Nagi, “Une Politique des Beaux-Arts en Egypte,” (circa 1931) The cooperative movement began in Egypt in...
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Fatira area in the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, is a composite terrane consisting of Neoproterozoic volcanics and sediments laid down in submarine to subaerial environment, intruded by voluminous old to young granitic rocks. The various lithofacies of the study area can be grouped in three distinct lithostratigraphic sequences, which are described here in stratigraphic order, from base to top as the Fatira El Beida, Fatira El Zarqa and Gabal Fatira sequences. Each depositional sequence, is...
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To address gaps in the literature regarding the role of family routine on school disengagement and delinquent behaviors, we tested whether family routine moderated relations between school disengagement and delinquent behaviors in an urban, low socioeconomic status (SES), African American sample of adolescents (N = 204, 48% male). Adolescents reported on school disengagement and delinquent behaviors. Family routine was assessed with mother report. Hierarchical regression analyses examined...
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An increasing number of irrigation dam interventions are user-managed, presuming that this approach delivers better project outcomes. Using an institutional approach, this paper explores how the IFAD-funded, user-managed, irrigation dam interventions in Ghana’s Upper West Region impacted on farmers‟ capacity to cope with drought. Water users associations were formed to address problems of malfeasance among members and ensure collective action for efficient irrigation management to empower...
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Evidences of glaciation at the end of the Ordovician are widespread in western Gondwana. Some authors consider the glaciation was restricted to the Hirnantian time, but occurrences of glacial deposits in the Lower Silurian strata of South America indicate that the Gondwana glaciers did not completely disappear after the Hirnantian glaciation. In addition, numerous studies based on palaeoecology, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and stable isotopes have suggested that ice sheets formed as...
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Three volcano-stratigraphic units were identified at Brava Island in the Cape Verde Archipelago on the basis of field relationships, geologic mapping and 40Ar/39Ar and U–Th ages. The Lower Unit comprises a 2-to-3 Ma-old submarine volcanic sequence that represents the seamount stage. It is composed of nephelinitic/ankaramitic hyaloclastites and pillow lavas, which are cut by abundant co-genetic dikes. Plutonic rocks of an alkaline–carbonatite complex, which intruded the submarine sequence 1.8...
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Time - space compression has contributed to a substantial increase in migration worldwide. Professionals and service industry employees are most prone to transnational mobility at present. The declaration by countries to achieve UNESCO’s Education for All targets by 2015 has led to pressure to attract and employ teachers (locally and from abroad) to meet the desired needs. This paper presents an analysis of Indian teachers’ career decision to leave South Africa (SA) to embrace teaching...
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This reflective study explores refugee students’ perceptions of the educational approach used in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. The study focuses on my personal reflections as a teacher and a student in this camp, and as a refugee. My goal of writing this narrative is to reflect fully on the refugee students’ life in a camp and then contribute to the method of narrative analysis. It is my hope that this article will contribute to the current literature on the narrative approach.
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This paper describes an exploratory constructivist grounded theory study focusing on relationships between students' perceptions of their participation in an African American fraternity or sorority (i.e. a Black Greek-letter Organization) and their experiences in undergraduate engineering studies. 10 interviews were conducted with students at a Predominantly White Institution in the Southeastern United States. A semi-structured interview guide based on the critical incident technique was...
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ABSTRACTDespite knowledge of the effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission, condoms continue to be reported in only a minority of sexual encounters even with nonpermanent partners. This study used focus-group discussions with youth and interviews with community leaders from 22 communities in the Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces, Kenya, to examine the sociocultural influences on condom use among school-going youth. Three overarching themes emerged from a thematic analysis of the...