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This paper offers an existentialist account of the writer's refusal to participate in 'decolonial pedagogical practices' as instructed by his line managera White woman who considers herself a liberalwithin a teaching and learning unit of a 'first class' university in South Africa.The paper sets out to unpack all of the ways in which the university in question, post #RhodesMustFall, and #FeesMustFall positioned itself as a site of decolonisation, with its White liberal colonial staff still...

Raja Adal’s Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education offers an informed account of how music, drawing, and calligraphy entered primary education systems in modern Japan and Egypt. Adal argues that educators incorporated these subjects, which emerged out of British and French contexts, to generate a sense of enchantment among pupils. That the same pedagogical technique also intensified the sense of national belonging while creating national...

Abstract Objective The aim of this evaluation was to assess the effectiveness of helping baby breathe (HBB) and essential care for every baby (ECEB) training program that has been implemented in southern nations nationalities and people’s region (SNNPR), Ethiopia. Result The mean trainees’ satisfaction score was 32.88 (SD ± 2.68). The majority (93.88%) of the trainees scored ≥ mean. All trainees expressed that all parts of the training were important but the updated parts of the training...

South African schools are faced with a serious problem of indiscipline. The available literature reveals that despite the efforts of school administrators and teachers to instil discipline among learners, indiscipline still abounds to the extent of getting out of hand. Based on the intention of this study, a qualitative study was adopted. A qualitative-based study underpinned by the interpretive research paradigm was employed to explore the perspectives of educators in their collaborative...

Teachers are expected to be self-directed and to instill in their learners the ability to self-regulate their own learning processes. There are however personal and contextual factors that promote or inhibit teachers’ abilities to develop self-regulated learning skills. This study was conducted in two South African secondary township schools and in two Namibian rural secondary schools. Twenty-eight, conveniently and purposively selected teachers participated. This qualitative case study, was...

Abstract Background The world population is rapidly aging, and the prevalence of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related disorders is correspondingly increasing. Thus, detecting cognitive decline in older individuals is an urgent public health concern. There is a need for brief, practical, standardized measures that are sensitive to cognitive decline and can be broadly deployed in diverse settings. Advancing Reliable Measurement in Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Aging...

Teaching with widely accessed social media network tools like Facebook can positively contribute to students’ writing performance and quality of writing. However, teachers usually disregard Facebook because they doubt if it can be used as a platform for education. Therefore, this nested experimental design study investigated the effect of a Facebook writing group on students’ paragraph writing performance and the quality of paragraph writing. In order to achieve these, the researchers used...

The significant weakness in problem solving and innovation continues to affect scientific production in Morocco. That’s why, many reforms are set up to address the various problems raised. The national strategy for the development of scientific research by 2025 indicates the proper conduct and methodological integrity of research work. Literature states that critical thinking is the intellectual basis of the scientific research method. Furthermore, it has been empirically demonstrated that...

The variation of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) mainly depends on the change of climatic factors (precipitation and temperature). This study is assessing and analyzing the inter-annual and seasonal change of NDVI in the Horn of Africa (HOA) (1982–2013). The relationship between climatic factors and NDVI values of global Inventory monitoring Modeling System (GIMMS) from 1982 to 2013 was analyzed by means of ordinary least squares, vegetation slope, simple linear regression and...

Introduction Poor access to, and engagement with, diabetes healthcare is a significant issue for black British communities who are disproportionately burdened by type 2 diabetes (T2D). Tackling these inequalities is a healthcare priority. The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of healthcare practitioners providing diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) to African and Caribbean adults living with T2D to inform the development of a culturally tailored DSMES...

Background. To be socially responsible, tertiary education institutions collaborate with local communities. Community engagement is a teaching and learning strategy that enhances the learning experiences of students while interacting with community members. Assessing a family at home is a curriculum task that strengthens a primary healthcare approach to nursing education. Objectives. To explore and describe facilitators and challenges experienced by first-year nursing students regarding...

Growing evidence suggests that there is a correlation between climate change and increasing levels of human population displacement in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last two decades, stakeholders have established various resilience-building programs to mitigate climate disaster risks and their adverse impacts on life and livelihoods across the region. These programs have focused on enhancing food and water security while expanding the capacity to predict and plan for climate disasters....

Digital technology plays an important role in achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, access is uneven, with 80% of those in high-income countries being online compared to 20% of those in the 47 least developed countries. This study aimed to describe and analyse adolescents’ access to and usage of digital technology in Guinea-Bissau and its implications. In June 2017, a survey with a locally adapted Planet Youth questionnaire was implemented in the capital, Bissau,...

Abstract School-based sexuality education makes teachers important gatekeepers of students’ access to information about sexual and reproductive health and rights. The school setting has the potential to reach large numbers of students. However, teachers’ professional identities may go beyond, differ from or even conflict with the qualities required of sexuality educators. To gain a better understanding of the role of professional identity in the delivery of school-based sexuality education,...

In recent years, much effort was made to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services (SRH) to adolescents and youths in Ethiopia particularly through establishment of youth friendly service (YFS) corners as part of the existing health care facilities. The existing evidences focused on investigating the utilization of SRH services at YFS established areas alone. There is a dearth of evidence which compares the SRH service use between the YFS implemented and non-implemented areas...

Twenty years (1993–2012) of satellite altimetry dataset, through maps of absolute dynamic topography and their derived geostrophic velocities, as well as monthly climatological maps of windstress and windstress-curl have been used to assess the oceanic variability in the western Indian Ocean region (WIO). We have performed a comparative study between the Agulhas Current Large Marine Ecosystem (ACLME) and the Somali Coastal Current Large Marine Ecosystem (SCCLME) during the current time...

Advances in technology through the means of information and communication technologies have led to a transition to an open digital network economy, as it has become necessary for the future company to be able to work by adopting the Internet and the information and communication network to reduce operating costs, the volume of labor and maximize the investments that require high technology. Therefore, this research paper aims to highlight the role and definition of information and...