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Ranging from daily to strategic decisions, uncertainty is an integral part of the decision making process in all schools. Regardless of their experience, teachers are suffering from the lack of information and unpredictable future events that their schools face. Given the fact that Egypt has tried to use education as a mechanism for attaining economic soundness and organizational effectiveness, the present study explores the effect of the different types of uncertainty (strategic,...
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The Botswana government discontinued school fees in the 1980s as an attempt to address the endemic poverty and gravely unequal distribution of wealth in the country. The country invested vast amounts in education to achieve an impressive gains in educational access at all levels. However, the dawn of the new millennium came with the re-introduction of school fees termed cost recovery, the move which many authors across the world blame for eroding the gains achieved during the era of free...
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The intent of this quasi-experimental study is to investigate the impact of explicit metacognitive reading strategy instruction (RSI) on Moroccan English as a foreign language (EFL) university learners’ strategy use and reading achievement. It reflects whether this sort of instruction can make of learners strategic and critical readers. In this regard, a pre-post-test design involving the administration of reading comprehension pre- and post-tests to both the control and the treatment group...
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This experimental study is intended to uncover how the meaning-checking procedure is conducted by Moroccan English as a foreign language (EFL) learners and explore the perceived impact of metacognitive strategy instruction on the way they monitor their comprehension act in textual processing. Predicated on a pre-post-test design, the study is a manifestation of the extent to which the learners’ monitoring behaviour during the reading process can be subject to utter improvement through the...
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A study was conducted to investigate the role of on-farm tree as a long-term and sustainable adaptation strategy to climatic stresses in eight villages around Mkingu Nature Forest Reserve (MkNFR) in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Specifically, the effects of climate change to peoples’ livelihoods and the role of onfarm as an adaptation to the climate change effects were assessed. The role of existing on-farm trees as an adaptation to climate change effects was also investigated. Data...
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Education is the key to development; however, it is impossible to think the quality of education without having academically qualified and professional responsible teachers. The main objective of this study was to examine the perspectives of undergraduate student teachers toward teaching practice experience as a tool of learning to teach. A qualitative research methods approach using semi - structure questionnaires was carried out to 351 second and third year undergraduate student teachers...
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Master of Education in Language and Media Education. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Edgewood 2016.
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This paper is a discussion of the Malawi government’s policy to increase access to university education as a way of trying to absorb more secondary school graduates into the university system. The discussion culminates from a qualitative study that was conducted at Kamuzu College of Nursing in Malawi to assess the impact of the policy in the University of Malawi. The study has found that the initiative has enabled more students to pursue a career in nursing and midwifery which has helped to...