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African governance arrangements are typically constructed from the top down, frequently establishing predatory and repressive relationships with the societies they are meant to govern. In some countries, these arrangements collapse with tragic consequences. The work of Vincent and Lin Ostrom provides insights and analytic tools that can be helpful to scholars and practitioners who address Africa's governance challenges. The Ostroms have shown that people can and do depart from arrangements...

Fatma H. Sayed is an academic at the European University Institute,Florence, Italy, specializing in development assistance, policy analysis, and governance in the Euro-Mediterranean region and a consultant to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Development.

This paper critically reviews the ways in which the policy of education decentralisation in post‐apartheid South Africa results in both forms of inclusion and new forms of exclusion. Drawing on a two‐year research project carried out in three provinces in South Africa, it shows how in the governance of schools, new forms of exclusion are being generated. It thus throws into sharp relief the policy effects of education decentralisation in South Africa, illuminating through case study data the...

This study examines teachers' perceptions of extra-roles in school organisational contexts. The participants are 319 (234 male and 85 female) primary and secondary school teachers in Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia. The study employed a multi-dimensional extra-role behaviour (ERB) scale. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses procedures are used to answer the questions. The findings reveal that female teachers are generally more willing to volunteer for extra-roles...

As a drought-preparedness strategy, a community was provided with dual purpose goats for milk production and crossbreeding with the local small East African goats. Over 2 years, more than 400 Kenya dual purpose goat crosses were produced and their performance was significantly superior to the indigenous parents. Copyright © 2005 Whurr Publishers Ltd.

A study of the stem or of the leaf anatomy of Chenopodiaceae inventoried in the Northern part of Algerian Sahara showed a specific organization of the assimilating parenchyma of these species. This anatomical adaptation is correlated to a physiological one, many species being characterized by a C 4 pathway of carbon fixation.

We use small and moderate aftershocks of the 24 February 2004 Al Hoceima earthquake as empirical Greens' functions (EGFs) to retrieve the rupture history of the main event. The magnitude, depth, and geometry of faulting were estimated for the main shock and 20 small and moderate aftershocks ( M w between 3.9 and 5.2) computing moment tensor solutions. For the main shock, we obtain a moment magnitude of M w = 6.3 and a nearly pure double‐couple source (4% compensated linear vector dipole)...

School-age children are often a neglected group in terms of micronutrient interventions because they are not reached by the intervention strategies aimed at preschool children or pregnant women. School feeding, however, offers an excellent opportunity for targeted intervention in this age group, especially with regard to fortification. This paper first gives a brief overview of the school-feeding program in South Africa, and second reports on a number of trials conducted in South African...

In many developing countries, private unaided schools are serving the poor in large numbers. Some commentators view their presence as undesirable ‐ in particular assuming that there is a conflict between‘commercial gain’ and ‘concern for the poor’. We show one way in which there is no conflict ‐ the private unaided schools offer free or concessionary places to the poorest of the poor. Using data from a random sample of schools in Hyderabad, India, and a smaller sample in Makoko, Nigeria, we...

Abstract Through building on and extending the metaphor of “orchestration,” forwarded by reading scholars, this case study research describes and examines how an effective third‐grade teacher organizes and facilitates high‐quality reading instruction for African American students. Findings suggested that the teacher used three pedagogical strategies to meet African American students’ social and literacy needs: (a) enacting a “border crossing curriculum” (b) making the strategies and skills...

Abstract There is a gulf between the rhetoric of those advocating the use of ICT in education in Africa and the reality of classroom practice. This paper explores some of the reasons for this, and outlines a possible framework for the successful implementation of teacher training programmes that make advantageous use of appropriate ICTs. It argues that six fundamental principles of good practice must be addressed for such programmes to be effective: a shift from an emphasis on ‘education for...

The rate of adoption of mobile technologies in Africa's developing countries is amongst the highest in the world and by 2005 there may be almost 100 billion mobile users in Africa (Keegan, 2002; Brown, 2005). This is just one of the reasons why servicing distance students in this country through m-learning1 support tools should enjoy consideration. At the Unit for Distance Education at the University of Pretoria most of our students are from remote rural areas in South Africa where there...

In this article we report on what Grade 8 learners say about the new curriculum reforms in South Africa - Outcomes-based Education (OBE) and Curriculum 2005 (C2005) - that were introduced into their mathematics classrooms. The article begins by addressing what is argued to be a gap in reform research in mathematics education. It draws primarily on focus group interviews conducted with learners after having observed a series of consecutive lessons in three different previously racially...

In this article the author explores possibilities for cultivating justice with reference to teaching and learning in (South African) universities. It is argued that teachers and learners ought to become responsive, democratic and critical – they need to act justly in order to break with South Africa's apartheid legacy. The author discusses why readiness, deliberation and responsibility – acts of justice – ought to unfold in South African university classrooms and, more importantly, how each...

This article analyses the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS), an agreement reached in 2003 between the South African Education Department and the major teacher organisations in the country by using discourse analysis. The IQMS was scheduled to be implemented in public schools in 2004. Three discursive tensions are identified and discussed: the dialectic of the global and the local, the politics of accountability and the development of human resources, and contradictions between...

This article analyses the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS), an agreement reached in 2003 between the South African Education Department and the major teacher organisations in the country by using discourse analysis. The IQMS was scheduled to be implemented in public schools in 2004. Three discursive tensions are identified and discussed: the dialectic of the global and the local, the politics of accountability and the development of human resources, and contradictions between...

Integration of ICT into teaching and learning has risen on the South African education agenda, particularly with the release of the White Paper on e-Education in 2003. This empirical paper draws on survey data from the evaluation of the Intel(r) Teach to the Future programme in South Africa to reflect on ICT integration in South African classrooms. The article highlights the complexity of ICT access and reflects on both stages and types of ICT integration. Factors affecting ICT...

[1] In the paper “Radiation efficiency and apparent stress of small earthquakes in a South African gold mine” by Takuji Yamada et al. (Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B01305, doi:10.1029/2004JB003221, 2005), Figure 16 and Table 4 include some minor errors. [2] In Figure 16, open circles were not printed clearly. The correct version of Figure 16 is shown here. [3] In Table 4, the column headings “With Q Correction” and “Without Q Correction” appeared over the wrong columns and should be...