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In Africa there has really been no historical development of cooperative learning because of the influence of missionary and colonial education in establishing a Western form of schooling. This is why a discrepancy exists between African culture, which may be seen as defining some form of cooperative learning, and the present school culture. The new philosophy of African socialism has not markedly permeated the schools or methods of classroom teaching. Cooperative learning has special...
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The relationship between student involvement and racial identity attitudes among African American males was examined. The Student Involvement Survey (SIS), and the Racial Identity Attitude Scale (RIAS-B) were administered to 117 African American males at 10 predominantly White universities. A significant relationship was found among the 4 subscales of the RIAS-B and the SIS total. Recommendations for student affairs practitioners working with African American students are presented.
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The relationship between student involvement and racial identity attitudes among African American males was examined. The Student Involvement Survey (SIS), and the Racial Identity Attitude Scale (RIAS-B) were administered to 117 African American males at 10 predominantly White universities. A significant relationship was found among the 4 subscales of the RIAS-B and the SIS total. Recommendations for student affairs practitioners working with African American students are presented.
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Geography faces several challenges in a changing South Africa. These include the challenge to initiate a primary curriculum that helps to provide a foundation for sustainable living in a society that faces serious problems of unemployment, violence, irreparable damage to the environment and the lack of housing, water and basic services for the majority of the population. This thesis attempts to provide a case for geography in the primary school by examining the value of the subject for...
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Elleni Tedla, Sankofa: African Thought and Education. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 236 pp. $29.95, paper. Reviewed by L. Kay Walker and Dickson A. Mungazi, Northern Arizona University. In the four decades since the process of decolonization and political independence began in Africa, African scholars have attempted to evaluate the direction that the continent of Africa has taken in its developmental efforts. Among the questions these scholars have asked as a way of determining that...
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Successful schools in Tanzania : a case study of academic and production programs in primary and secondary schools
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1995 In John Van Seters's 1992 publication, Prologue to History , he continues his revision of Wellhausen's documentary hypothesis by attempting to define the work of the classical source J as a blend of historiographie and antiquarian interests that is drawn from Greek historiography within a context in the Jewish Diaspora in Babylon during the exilic period. Van Seters resolutely and convincingly establishes the thesis that the Yahwistic tradition is a product of the re-emergence of Israel...
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Abstract The theological education debate in South Africa must be co-ordinated to make it meaningful for all parties involved. Factors influencing this debate are mentioned. Among these are obstacles in redefining African theology and relevant trends on an international and national level. The question of theological education cannot be dealt with in a credible way without reconsidering the nature of the university and the character of truth. Self-understanding in the theological profession...
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This study has investigated immune injuries to the inner ear auditory system of guinea pigs. Following secondary antigen challenge to the endolymphatic sac, the mean hearing threshold significantly increased in the early phase from day 1 to day 3 and thereafter recovered. In the early phase, hearing threshold significantly increased simultaneously to the elevation of perilymph antibody levels. The size of hydrops was not the only factor that causes an increase in hearing loss as well as in...
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The article presents data from a survey conducted in early 1994. It is an edited version of a paper presented to the World Congress in Sociology, Bielefeld, July 1994. South African Workers Speak (FAFO: Oslo 1994, forthcoming) gives a more thorough and substantial presentation of the survey, including results from interviews with white workers. The survey is funded by the Norwegian Research Council, the Norwegian Ministry of...