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Modified computer-assisted learning (ModCal [TM]) is JHPIEGOs newest option for implementing competency-based training in reproductive health. In May 1996 JHPIEGO an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University conducted a pilot test of ModCal at the Mpilo School of Midwifery in Bulawayo Zimbabwe to assess how participants with no prior computer experience responded to computer-based learning about IUDs. 38 participants (midwifery students tutors and practicing nurses) completed a 5-module...
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Physics departments in the RSA make serious attempts to improve the quality of physical science teaching. One of the most burning problems is the lack of well-qualified, experienced physical science teachers in the country. Physics department-based projects address this problem through research and development linked to the research. This paper gives an overview of the physics education research conducted in the RSA during the past few years. The focus is on research in the North West...
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The difficulties of reconstruction and social renewal, as citizens of the Republic of South Africa are learning in their new democracy, are great and demand levels of commitment that challenge deep-seated and entrenched sensibilities about the nature of the world and its organization. During apartheid, education was used not only to achieve social separation but, insofar as it was built around a social philosophy, it was also the legitimating arena for White supremacy and for the complex...
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The education of young African children in South Africa was ignored during apartheid. In response, groups of African women, many lacking formal education or knowledge of early childhood education (ECE) practices, established private preschools called Educare centers in urban areas, townships, and rural homelands. In 1995, nongovernment organizations with assistance from USAID began training Educare teachers. An evaluation of 32 Educare facilities was conducted to assess the relationship of...
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The UNESCO UNEVOC Regional Conference was held at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 11-14 November 1996. The theme of the conference was 'Policy development and implementation of technical and vocational education for economic development in Asia and the Pacific'. Delegates from almost all UNEVOC countries attended the conference. This paper outlines the two phases of the project and shows how the objectives of the project have been largely achieved.
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This essay examines issues of diversity and literacy education primarily in terms of the concept of difference via a new term: non-negotiable difference. It argues that networked classrooms provide writing instructors with unique extra-linguistic cues (body language) that can help teachers and students become more responsive to racial difference. The essay discusses specifically the experiences of three African American students in a technical writing course and, on the basis of those...
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South Africa now finds itself in a state of dramatic change. Education based on segregation is to be replaced, this time by an implementation of the policy of the Rainbow Nation. To merge traditions from Africa, Europe, North America and Asia into a multicultural music education in a short space of time is indeed a vast and complicated mission.