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Suboptimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices contribute to child undernutrition. Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey data show that IYCF practices remain poor despite modest improvements. Recent studies have identified the role of grandmothers as critical to child nutrition; however, in Sierra Leone to date, the potential for grandmothers to influence IYCF practices has not been investigated. We examined how an innovative grandmother-inclusive approach (GMIA) can be used...
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This research is based on case studies of seven district teacher development centres (DTDCs) in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The paper describes the perceptions of selected teachers regarding their professional learning and development experiences at these centres. The purpose of the study was to determine the role the centres play in supporting teachers’ learning and development as stipulated in South African government policy. The study employed a qualitative research approach...
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Based on the archival data on oil facilities, oil spill incidents, and environmental conditions, we researched the plausible causes of oil spill disasters in the Niger Delta of Nigeria between 2006 and 2019. The data were analyzed for geospatial and statistical patterns, using ArcGIS and R programming platforms, respectively. A fuzzy logic algorithm was employed to generate three oil spill disaster models (hazard, vulnerability, and risk). Ordinary Least Square algorithm was adopted to model...
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Research on the level of social and academic adjustment and the ties between both Syrian refugee students in Jordan is still insufficient due to the lack of research and interest among academics and researchers. This is happening even though the rise of refugees has impacted students from the Syrian Refugee Education Center SREC in Jordan in the last five years. Therefore, the current study examines the connection between social adjustment and academic adjustment among Syrian refugee...
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The objective of the present study is to identify the level of tendency of students and their attitudes towards reading at the stage of primary education and intermediate it in the city of Dar chiouck in Algeria, as well as the nature of the differences according to the following demographic variables: (Gender-Educational stage ), and the sample consisted of 246 individuals, with females = 123 and males = 123, and primary education =106 pupils intermediate education=140 pupils; The study...
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The study aimed to analyze the reality of e-learning at Palestine Technical University-Khudouri/Tulkarem, and to identify the most important challenges facing students when using the education system, as well as to analyze the extent to which university students interact with the e-learning system, and to show the differences between the average opinions of the study sample on e-learning according to the study variables due to the nature of the study, the descriptive analytical approach was...
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The Effect of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Project (CALLP) on Yemeni EFL Student Teachers’ Perceived TPACK Self-Efficacy
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This was Stellenbosch University's first online conference and a first in South Africa and Africa focusing on experiential education and social justice.This two-day virtual higher education conference was collaboratively designed with experiential educators in civil society, university student affairs practitioners, and academics from across the world.The conference theme of 'Experiential education as pedagogy for social justice: praxis and practice for shaping 21st century global citizen...
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The agricultural sector is the second major source of climate change globally, contributing to anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. In low-to-middle income countries, estimations indicate future increases in agricultural emissions. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has an express opportunity to transform agriculture across the globe. In Africa, CSA targets focused on resilience building and food security with less emphasis on the GHG mitigation potential. Nevertheless, to make CSA...
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This study on the heavy metal content of a local drinking water source in South-east Nigeria was carried out in 3 sampling stations between May 2019 and October 2019. Pollution indices and health risk assessment for non-carcinogenic were used to check the water’s suitability for human consumption. The indices were heavy metal pollution index (HPI) and Contamination Index (Cd). Eight metals were evaluated with standard methods and compared with Nigerian and WHO drinking water standards. Some...
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The Higher Teachers’ Training Colleges (HTTCs) and Higher Teachers’ Technical Training Colleges (HTTTCs) in Cameroon prepare all teachers seeking to be employed within the education service in Cameroon. In the last decade, Ecole Normale Superieur (ENS) and Ecole Normale Superieur d’Enseignement Technique (ENSET)’s enrolments for initial teacher preparation programs have grown significantly, with peaks in numbers during the recession years. There is also some evidence of attrition when...
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Education for democratic peacebuilding citizenship includes four essential components: handling conflict, practising dialogue, recognizing diversity, and building a pedagogical community. Teachers can help one another to interpret, to learn, and to implement these pedagogical practice dimensions, in order to equip their students with democratic agency and values to participate in peacebuilding social change. This comparative case study research examines how two groups of private school...
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This research aimed at investigating about the preferred learning styles and the effect of some variables such as the university branch, gender, education program, academic year, specialization, and cumulative average. To achieve that, the two researchers used the Index of learning styles (ILS) developed by Felder and Solomon (Litzinger, et al, 2005) consisting of 44 items to evaluate learning preferences, and which was applied on purpose cluster sample of (345) students. After using the...