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Few schools in the developing world include Road Safety Education in their timetable, despite the fact that children represent a vulnerable group of road users. Two reasons for this were identified: a lack of teaching resources, and a lack of knowledge by teachers of how to teach road safety and what should be taught. This report discusses the design and evaluation of a Road Safety Education resource designed for teachers of 10 and 11 year old children and the development of good practice...
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Training Requirements in Agricultural Mechanisation and Machinery for Rural Women: An Empirical Study from Egypt
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This paper gives an account of some of the major developments in the field of low-cost educational water quality monitoring in South Africa as an approach to environmental education. The wide acceptance of this approach to education in schools as well as non-formal settings may be an indication of the many complex problems in a country plagued by problems regarding the availability of reliable supplies of clean, fresh water and sanitation. It reflects critically on some of the serious...
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Until recently, it was proposed that the Bushveld Complex, consisting of the extrusive Rooiberg Group and the intrusive Rashoop Granophyre, Rustenburg Layered and Lebowa Granite Suites, evolved over a long period of time, possibly exceeding 100 Ma. Most workers therefore considered that the various intrusive and extrusive episodes were unrelated. Recent findings suggest that the intrusive, mafic Rustenburg Layered Suite, siliceous Rashoop Granophyre Suite and the volcanic Rooiberg Group were...
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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK SCOTT-BOWLES, LESLIE B.S. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY -EDWARDSVILLE, 1995 EMPOWERING AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION TO SUCCEED: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY Advisor: Melvin Williams, Ph.D. Thesis dated May 1997 This study explored the use of culture-based empowerment curricula in empowering a group of African-American male special education students to succeed. The Generalized Expectancy to Succeed Scale was used to measure the generalized expectancy to succeed...
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Literary study, like any other social process, is affected in one way or another by other related social processes. This article therefore investigates the possibilities of helping literary practice to remain in tune with other social processes.
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[A]t present our pupils learn to despise even their own parents because they are old-fashioned and ignorant; there is nothing in our existing educational system which suggests to the pupil that he [she] can leam important things about farming from his [her] elders. The result is that he [she] absorbs beliefs about witchcraft before he [she] goes to school, but does not learn the properties of local grasses; he [she] absorbs the taboos from his [her] family but does not leam the methods of...
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The school/library resource centre was popularized as an integral component of pre-tertiary education, particularly from the turn of the twentieth century. Many librarians and educators have conducted investigations into the relevance of the school library and the relationship between such an institution and learning generally. Most of these studies, however, were conducted in the developed countries. In Nigeria, few studies have investigated the place of the school library in education....
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The performance of six primary health workers was evaluated after following a 9-day training course on integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI). The participants were selected from three primary health centres in the Gondar District, Ethiopia, and the course was focused on assessment, classification, and treatment of sick children (aged 2 months to 5 years) and on counselling of their mothers. Immediately following this training, a 3-week study was conducted in the primary health...