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Despite potential opportunities offered by exceptional advances in science and technology, we are increasingly polarised from each other.Social inequalities, poverty and deprivation are only a few of the challenges facing most societies.By combining the theoretical perspective of Bent Flyvberg's Making Social Science Matter (2001) and related Perestroika discourse with insights from community development and empowerment research in rural Ghana and Aboriginal Australia, this paper...

Résumé Le Bénin s’est engagé depuis 1994 dans une réforme de son système d’enseignement. Le but de cette étude est d’analyser les contenus du nouveau programme d’EPS y résultant et leur adéquation aux réalités du système éducatif. En référence à l’anthropologie didactique de Chevallard (1992), il s’agit de comprendre la nature des objets de savoir de ce programme, et le rapport que les enseignants en ont eu en vue de les enseigner. De l’analyse des résultats, il ressort des contenus...

Le Benin s’est engage depuis 1994 dans une reforme de son systeme d’enseignement. Le but de cette etude est d’analyser les contenus du nouveau programme d’EPS y resultant et leur adequation aux realites du systeme educatif. En reference a l’anthropologie didactique de Chevallard (1992), il s’agit de comprendre la nature des objets de savoir de ce programme, et le rapport que les enseignants en ont eu en vue de les enseigner. De l’analyse des resultats, il ressort des contenus denatures et...

The success of any business organization, whether in the private or public sectors,lies mainly in the quality of its hlllllan resources. Literature confirmed that training of manpower is a major prerequisite for any organisation who wants to achieve maximlllll productivity through the efficient and effective performance of employee. Employee can only perform better through the acquisition of skills, knowledge and ability from training programme. This paper attempts to find out whether staff...

In response to the growing numbers of African students on the social work qualifying programme at the University of Northampton, three senior lecturers undertook a small-scale study in 2008 to evaluate African students’ particular learning experiences. This trend of increasing student numbers reflects the national picture as indicated by the General Social Care Council (GSCC, 2009). The African student experience is different and therefore different strategies are needed to ensure that...

This paper assesses the employment and school enrollment gaps between disabled and non-disabled persons using the last Cape Verdean census. The unexplained part of these gaps accounts for most of them, whatever the age group considered. Furthermore, differences in age structures between disabled and non-disabled persons have almost no effect on these gaps. Taking into account potential misclassification errors in the disability variable seems to change only marginally these results. These...

Scenarios of present, intermediate and future climates for Southern Africa were analysed to evaluate potential changes in hydrologically relevant statistics of rainfall that could be observed this century as a result of climate change.These climate scenarios were developed in previous studies by applying empirical downscaling techniques to relatively coarse-scale climate scenarios simulated by general circulation models (GCMs) as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 3 rd and...

It is now well recognized that obesity is a major public health concern, and its prevalence has tremendously increased worldwide over the last decades, including Tunisia. As obesity is associated with cardiovascular diseases, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of obesity on forearm skin blood flow (FSBF) response to acetylcholine (Ach), an endothelium-dependent vasodilator, in Tunisian women over a wide range of body mass indices (BMIs).One hundred and eighty healthy...

Exposure to sunlight has been associated with several ocular conditions such as cataract, age-related macular degeneration, and conjunctival neoplasm. Knowledge of protective modalities and good behavioural practice involving eye protection is essential to prevent adverse effects of sunlight. The purpose of this study was to establish knowledge amongst randomly selected university students in South Africa, of prevention modalities against the adverse effects of sunlight. A questionnaire...

African Americans comprise one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. They also account for the highest number of HIV infection and AIDS cases among children, youth, and young adults across all racial, ethnic, and cultural populations. The purpose of this exploratory theory-based article is to discuss the extent of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African American community, variables that contribute to HIV/AIDS among African Americans, and culturally relevant program designs and...

ABSTRACT The article explores the approaches taken by South African institutions of higher education to the teaching of sexualities and gender. In a national context in which issues of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, legal reforms around reproductive and sexual rights, and critical discussions around the meanings of culture and sexuality abound, one might expect that tertiary education would introduce young men and women to some of the key global debates...

The study was aimed at assessing techniques, which would provide an accurate indication of the planktonic bacterial pollution load in the Berg River, Western Cape, South Africa.Sampling of sites started in June 2004 and continued for a period of 1 year until June 2005.The most probable number (MPN) technique was used to determine the level of faecal coliforms and E. coli, while the heterotrophic plate count method was used to determine the amount of culturable microorganisms in planktonic...

This research explores implications of service in learning for social change through an investigation of the Preparation for Social Action (PSA) Program in Uganda against the backdrop of the literature on service learning. Employing critical pedagogy as a theoretical framework, I approach questions regarding the conceptualization of self and society in service as a relational process, the conceptualization of service as praxis, and the conceptualization of social change within an orientation...

This thesis provides an evaluation of the ethical perception of Nigerian accounting final year students. The purpose is to determine whether accounting education in Nigerian’ Universities impacts positively on the ethical perception of accounting Finalists to ethical dilemmas. Survey research design was adopted and stratified random sampling was used to obtain data from 260 final year accounting students of six selected Nigerian’s universities from six different geo – political regions. The...

Summaryen Objective To determine the impact after 2 years of a water and health education (W/HE) programme on ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection and trachoma. Methods We randomized 12 trachoma-endemic communities in Maradi, Niger 1:1 to W/HE intervention and control arms and collected data on 10 of the 12 villages. In the intervention villages, at least one clean water well was constructed, and a 3 month, modest health education programme was provided immediately prior to the 2 year...

This study focused on the impact of changes in climatic conditions on agriculture: it is motivated by the fact that agriculture is the mainstay of rural economies in South Africa, and indeed throughout much of Africa.Agriculture's importance cannot be overemphasised from a food security perspective, or from its vital role in assisting the country to enhance and maintain political stability through successful land reform.Understanding changes in agriculture already taking place, or likely to...

Arid environments remind one of the punctuated equilibriumtheory of evolution: they experience long periods of stasis and low productivity, interrupted with episodic rainfall which spurs reproduction and movement. Birds, as highly dispersive organisms, are among the most dramatic indicators of these fluctuations. Here we review birds' two main strategies, residency and nomadism, and the trade-offs faced by individuals in uncertain times. In general, wet years stimulate higher densities of...