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Completing the collections for a zoology laboratory, as part of obligatory student’s instruction, proves to be a long and ongoing process, in which passion, altruism, patience and some kind of self-sacrifice are often involved. Year after year since its beginning, the Biology specialization’s laboratory from University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest reached an important number of vertebrates and macroinvertebrates specimens, most of them belonging especially from...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of stress by teachers in the Metropole North, Circuit 6 of the Western Cape, South Africa, The study investigated factors causing teachers to experience stress as well as the levels or extent of their stress, to determine whether teacher stress due to learners, conditions of service, workload, resources for teaching and school-community relations could explain the variance in total stress experienced by teachers and to determine if...
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This chapter explores the emotional struggles and professional dilemmas of teachers as they deal with the on going failure of their learners in a poorly resourced school serving a low socio-economic community in South Africa. The chapter illustrates the resilience of teachers who are torn between conflicting impulses: the desire for their learners to do well while simultaneously wanting learners’ failure to be acknowledged and the pressure to conform to curriculum demands while...
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It is well recognised that statistics teaching in Kenya needs to change, in both the course content and in the approaches to teaching. Also clear is the important role that can be played through the recent wide availability of modern technology to students at all levels. A wide range of resources are available and various initiatives have also recently been undertaken. However, the system has remained resistant to change. The case is made that teaching and learning of statistics could...
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This work is based upon research supported by the National Research Foundation in South Africa
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Literature reveals the crucial influence of school leadership on the creation and maintenance of successful schools. In searching for new foundations to understand leadership, Raelin's leaderful practice model serves as an authentic model to describe a successful South African leadership practice. A qualitative study was used to interpret school leadership in primary schools through the lens of the leaderful practice model. The following observations emerged from the study: It is passion...
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This study focussed on the socialisation of a new principal in a South African primary school with a strong Christian culture. He was appointed when the predecessor retired after more than two decades. The conceptual framework focuses on the three phases of socialisation: professional socialisation, organisational socialisation and occupational identity, which are used to interpret the study. A qualitative study, which occurred during two phases, investigated the phenomenon, principal...
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This work is based upon research supported by the National Research Foundation in South Africa
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This article shows how equity research in mathematics education can be decentered by reporting the “voices” of mathematically successful African American male students as they recount their experiences with school mathematics, illustrating, in essence, how they negotiated the White male math myth. Using post-structural theory, the concepts discourse, person/identity, and power/agency are reinscribed or redefined. The article also shows that using a post-structural reinscription of these...
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The study focused on effectiveness of Primary Education Development Program (PEDP) on the enhancement of inclusive education for children with hearing and visual impairment in Tanzania. The study addressed three objectives including the extent to which the implementation of PEDP has improved the enrolment of children with hearing and visual impairment in the inclusive primary schools in Tanzania. The other objectives were; to examine challenges facing the teaching and learning materials for...
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The old African proverb “If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation)” was a pioneer in its time for realizing the importance of women’s education when men predominated education opportunities. This maxim recognized the benefits of education and has repeatedly become the motivation for global development efforts to offer education opportunities for women. Yet, fundamentally this maxim bears problematic assumptions that further...
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Islamic education is as old as the religion of Islam itself.The religion of Islam encourages learning right from its advent.The fact that the Qur'ān and the Sunnah of the Prophet (S.A.W.) contained instructions on the quest of knowledge is a clear testimony to this fact.Therefore in every generation, from the time of the Prophet (S.A.W.), there exist Muslims scholars who are very much keen in the pursuit of learning and zealous in imparting knowledge to others.It is discovered that...
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In forensic medicine, Identification of living persons and the dead bodies is of high importance.One of the main factors employed is the establishment of sexual dimorphism.The purpose of this study was to find out whether dimorphism of permanent maxillary teeth as well as intercanine distance plays a key role in establishing sex identity.This study was carried out on 231 healthy subjects comprising of (127 male and 104 female) students from Kogi state polytechnic students Lokoja,...