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In this article the authors consider current understandings of discipline in schools in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The concern is with exploring the discipline/punishment/power nexus in education in both countries; with how reductionist versions of discipline as authoritarianism interweave with views about the aims and perceived need for punishment in schools, and how this is driven by perceptions of a need to maintain control or power over young people, often viewed as a...
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This is a descriptive self-study of my experience participating in IRA‘s Diagnostic Teaching Project in Tanzania. The paper describes the teacher educators with whom I worked, their responses to IRA‘s curriculum, and what I learned about Tanzanian people, culture and education. Data are derived from a Likert survey, an open-item questionnaire, and my own observations in teaching a curriculum based on constructivist theory and classroom-based assessment. I found participants to be very...
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Background: If institutions of higher education are to produce health professionals whose practice is research based, then students need to be exposed to learning opportunities that include searching for information and critical appraisal. This requires teachers to incorporate the latest research in their teaching. One of the identified strategic goals of a South African university was to produce evidence-based health care practitioners. Evidence-based practice (EBP) requires that health...
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The study set out to determine the weathering and dissolution of metal hosting minerals at Dorowa for purposes of deducing pollution potential to the nearby Save River. Phosphate rock is mined at Dorowa for the production of phosphate fertilizer. The major minerals found in the ring complex are feldspars, pyroxenes, apatite, magnetite and calcite. Chemical analysis established that the rocks are associated with metals that include copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel, tin and cadmium. Among...
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The urine of 209 children was examined for haematuria and the presence of schistosome eggs. Comparing the infection rate of 72.3% with existing data suggests an increase in the prevalence over the last decades. Schistosomiasis lacks the attention it deserves in South Africa.
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South African schools have been desegregated for more than a decade now, yet the media still frequently report that schools are characterised by tension, ignorance, misunderstanding and aggression as a result of mismanaged diversity. It seems therefore that teachers are ill equipped to deal with diversity in schools. Research has clearly documented how classroom teaching is influenced by teachers' biased perceptions of learners from a diversity of backgrounds, and that these biased...
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A Project Report Submitted to the Chandaria School of Business in partial fulfillment for the requirement for the Degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
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v LIST OF TABLES xii LIST OF FIGURES xviii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xix DEFINITION OF TERMS xxi CHAPTER ONE 1
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The Open Source Software (OSS) literature gives little attention to the study and practice of domain specific end-user OSS implementation in general and in the public sector of developing countries (DCs) in particular. This paper, however, investigates the trajectories of two OSSbased information systems (IS) implementation projects in a developing country (DC) context with the aim to uncover the practice-based learning and resource sharing evident among locally situated and globally...
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The purpose of this qualitative study was examine how communication preferences, learning preferences, and perceptions about online learning affect nontraditional African American students' participation in online world literature courses at a historically Black university (HBCU) in the southeastern United States. An instrumental case study was the research design used. Data were collected from individual interviews of participants and non-participatory observations of Blackboard course...