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Vocational Training in School Programs and Occupational Training at Colleges in South Africa Deon De Villiers (bio) Some estimates indicate that more than 90% of all Deaf persons in South Africa have no jobs, and that up to 100% of Deaf people in the rest of Africa have no work and no income, are not economically independent, and are abused and neglected by employers and society. This very high unemployment rate is due to various factors. First is that the education and training system of...
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This article discusses a qualitative survey conducted among piano students in order to determine their needs regarding piano teaching. The empirical research underlying this article indicates that, from the perspective of the piano student, certain needs in the piano teaching situation are not satisfied, while piano lecturers feel that they cannot reach their music students, resulting in both parties experiencing the teaching situation as unsatisfactory and frustrating. The solution can be...
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Abstract Severe droughts in southern Africa are associated with livelihood impacts, a strain on local economies, and other hardships. Extensive effort has been spent in the past trying to improve responses to periods of extensive drought. There have also been renewed calls for improvements to climate change adaptation by adopting more proactive governance and disaster risk reduction approaches. Few efforts, however, have been made to assess how to learn more from past drought efforts so as...
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This research examined whether negative peer influences (i.e., norms favoring risky sex and drug use and gang involvement) mediated the relationship between school engagement (i.e., grade point averages [GPAs] obtained from school records and student-teacher connectedness) and sexual behaviors (i.e., sexual début, sex without condoms, group sex, and sex while using drugs) among African American high school adolescents, and whether these relationships varied by gender. Five hundred...
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Executive summary 11 1 Introduction 27 2 Methods 30 3 School attainment of Bangladeshi, Somali and Turkish pupils: empirical evidence from the National Pupil Database and the Pupil Level Annual School Census 39
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This article explores the question of the purpose of education within the context of performance and cosmopolitanism in South Africa. The publication of Jean-Francois Lyotard's classic text, The postmodern condition of knowledge in 1984 spawned much debate and controversy about postmodern framings for education, the most significant of which have been those on the concepts of 'performativity', 'performance', 'incredulity', 'nihilism' and 'paralogy'. Unlike those who associate the use of...
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At the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA, 30 April to 4 May), the theme of re-imagining public education arose once again with the most compelling presentation from leading scholars in the field concerned with counter-hegemonic politics and democratic change. The session entitled 'Re-imaging public education: Critical politics and democracy' reminded me of the important contribution made by South Africans working in higher education in consolidating...
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During the post-Apartheid period, teacher education discourses in South Africa have undergone several program reviews at the levels of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), BEd, and MEd. The Council on Higher Education’s (CHE) Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) has conducted extensive reviews of teacher education programs in the country with the aim to ascertain whether the faculties, schools, and departments of all 23 universities comply with at least the “minimum...
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As Tanzania approaches its 11th election as an independent state in 2010, an intelligent, confident citizenry is critical for the maintenance of its democracy. Civics education, along with other environmental influences, is the formal tool to provide young people with the knowledge and skill sets vital towards becoming productive members of this citizenry. This study is an examination of the conceptions of democracy and civic action held by Form 3 secondary students in urban Dar es Salaam,...
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The challenges of an increasingly borderless world, as seen in the advancements in information technology, have brought reform in universities and re-conceptualized what constitutes learning, teaching, and research. E-learning is often implemented as a response to increasing educational demand and an increasingly networked community. E-learning is considered as an interactive means to provide an alternative environment that stimulates practical learning and equips learners with the skills to...