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Proceedings of the 5th biennial International Conference on Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA) held at the University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 30 July - 1 August 2013.
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Secondary school agriculture is a subject which has enjoyed wide support both from international and local sources from as early as 1959. Despite these strategies, there exists a distortion between what is taught in schools and what the society expects from school agriculture. The purpose of this paper is to determine why participatory curriculum implementation of school agriculture has not made an impact on the practical aspects of the subject in Kenya. Through qualitative historical...
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Education is now widely recognized as a scarce commodity but whose investment leads to future pecuniary and non pecuniary returns. Individuals invest in human capital (HC) with hope for future returns, while family investments expect social returns. Indeed governments in the East African Community (EAC) are motivated by the perceived social rate of returns. An emerging school of thought holds that Higher Education (HE) is a big business whose investment must be carefully planned. In EAC,...
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To evaluate the usefulness of simple screening tests such as urinalysis and blood pressure measurement in the early detection of renal disorders in pre-School children, we used a multi-staged random sampling method to select subjects from registered nursery schools within Enugu metropolis in south-east Nigeria. We selected 630 children for this cohort study. There was a prevalence of 2.7%, 0% and 1.9% for asymptomatic proteinuria, hematuria and hypertension, respectively. There was no age,...
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Terrorist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (ISIL), Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda have the knowledge and the capability to strike anywhere in Kenya and with Kenya Defense Forces’ (KDF) incursion into Somalia in mid-October 2011, the citizens in Mandera, Moyale, Garrisa, Nairobi and Mombasa have been attacked and lives lost. This confi rms that Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda have been motivated by Kenya Defense Forces’ (KDF), now under the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM)...
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This study aimed at investigating the promotion of peace education for behavioural changes in public secondary schools in Calabar Municipal Council Area of Cross River State. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A set of questionnaire items were validated and used for the collection of data involving 310 respondents, selected from a total population of 773 teachers and 10 principals representing 39.5% of the total population of 783. The questionnaire was titled: Promoting...
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Background. Soil-transmitted helminthic infection is a common public health challenge of primary school children in resource challenged and developing countries. Our aim was to determine the prevalence and pattern of soil-transmitted helminthic infection among primary school children in a rural community in Imo State, Nigeria. Method. The study involved a cross-sectional survey of 284 primary school children in a rural community. Results. The overall prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthic...
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Educating a nation remains the most vital strategy for the development of the society throughout the developing world. This study aimed at establishing the effect of private secondary school principals’ leadership styles on teacher discipline in Kakamega County. The specific objectives pursued were: to assess the effect of leadership styles on the level of teacher performance; to determine the effect of organizational factors on teacher discipline; and to establish the effect of...
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This paper presents the effects of product design projects on Design and Engineering students’ innovation and entrepreneurial skills. Design project, among other things, focuses students’ attitudes and interests towards entrepreneurship. Pre-survey and post-survey tests were administered to students during the introduction of product design project and after the completion of the design project. Five students were randomly selected and interviewed after the completion of the product design...
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The negative effect of Climate Change (CC) on agriculture across Africa has been well established and hence the global policy interest. In Nigeria, crop farming is climate dependent and farmholders often employ measures that are sub-optimal against adverse conditions of climate. This raises the vulnerability of farming to CC uncertainty. For a long time, knowledge of CC perception by farmholders dominated the existing literature. The study employed econometric techniques to generate...
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This paper reports the study that investigated how parental educational background would influence the family values held by undergraduate students in a South African university. The study which was a part of a larger study conducted among undergraduate students adopted a cross-sectional survey design. Multiple sampling techniques were used in selecting 210 participants for the purpose of answering the research question. Approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Research Ethic...
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Achieving test validity is an essential concern in test development, particularly when a test is used for an important purpose. Conducting mock examinations for students in the terminal classes of Senior Secondary Schools (SS3) is fast becoming the norm in Nigeria as various school managements are persuaded that such examinations do not only ascertain the level of readiness of their student for the summative and matriculation examination conducted by independent examination bodies, but also...
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Background: Malignant diseases have been reported in children worldwide. Pattern of these diseases vary from continent to continent and even in the same country from region to region. Pattern of malignant diseases have been described from various parts of Nigeria, but none from Benin. Aim: To assess the pattern of malignant diseases seen in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin-City, Edo State Methods: In a bid to accurately document Cancers at the University of Benin Teaching...