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Carol Mouat* 1.Introduction We live in an environment where modern technology is inclined to dominate our Western thinking, and one of the greatest challenges of the community lifestyle in Africa is the invasion of Western individualism. In Africa are still striving to live out ubuntu values, where what matters most to the individual is to discover the humanity of the other person, to find ways to share the beauty and bounty of the land with one another, and to create a new society built on...
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Psychoeducational testing practices in Zimbabwe can be understood in terms of the colonial heritage of the country and the democratization of the education system following Black majority rule. Regulations for psychological practice and Western-oriented psychology curricula inherited from the colonial era are elements of continuity in the country's psychoeducational testing practices. The demands of the postindependence education dispensation that extended psychological services to native...
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Research publications constitute sensitive indicators of output performance in university education. The patterns of publications in the East African Medical Journal shows that between 1962-1970 Uganda was the leading contributor due, primarily, to the research activities of Makerere Medical School. Thereafter the events in Uganda brought about a sharp drop in research output from that country. The establishment of the Nairobi Medical School in 1967 resulted in Kenya becoming the leading...
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This report comprises the outcomes of a visit to the Seychelles by the consultants with a view to recommending a possible model of distance education provision for the Republic. It has been our firm view that for any such model to succeed, it must be developed in concert with those who will be required to put it into operation. Hence, what is presented here should be understood as the product of a strongly consultative approach to the task.
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This report comprises the outcomes of a visit to the Seychelles by the consultants with a view to recommending a possible model of distance education provision for the Republic. It has been our firm view that for any such model to succeed, it must be developed in concert with those who will be required to put it into operation. Hence, what is presented here should be understood as the product of a strongly consultative approach to the task.
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This study is contextualised within educational transformation in South Africa, and a 'new paradigm' of Outcomes Based Education (OBE). A starting point is a consideration of 'values' issues in technology education around technicist and human centred definitions of capability. Constraints and opportunities attached to the capacity of South African teachers to work towards outcomes that contextualise technology socially and environmentally are reviewed. The history of environmental education...
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This study used a collaborative and reflective case study approach to investigate the extent to which everyday experiences can be used as a vehicle for changing learning and teaching of secondary school mathematics in Malawi. It documents constraints and possibilities of achieving change in two severely overcrowded and poorly-resourced classes.
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The purpose was to examine the extent to which years of teaching experience may be related to self-reported job satisfaction in groups of men and women, who had less than eight years of teaching secondary school or who had more than eight years. 62 teachers with longer teaching experience (M age = 39.0 yr., SD = 3.9) rated their job satisfaction higher than those who had less experience (M age = 37.4 yr., SD = 5.9). 53% of teachers rated security high and 35% as average, so most felt secure in their work.