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Good-quality state education is a basic right enshrined in the Constitution. We cannot entrust our schools to unaccountable and undemocratic corporate interests. Public education has developed over more than a century to become a core part of the work of governments, especially because it is very much a part of their democratising mandate in providing a basic human right to all members of society. Nowhere is there an example of a country with high educational outcomes where the provision of...
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This study examines problems facing Islamic education in Nigeria. Primary and Secondary methods of data collection are used. Survey research design is adopted in this study. Self-structure questionnaire is raised and used to acquire information from the respondents relevant for testing hypothesis of the study. Chi – square (x2) technique was adopted for data analysis and hypothesis testing which revealed the findings of the study that Islamic education has been confronting with the...
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International environmental education policy discourses have influenced policy construction in Botswana and how teachers conduct themselves and teaching in environmental learning. The researcher uses Foucault's notion of governmentality to understand the effects of power/knowledge relations in policy. The analysis is taken further through a synthesis of the data in relation to some of the key theoretical vantage points used to unpack Foucault's notion of governmentality in environmental...
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The purpose of this study was to find out grade seven female learners’ the attitudes towards science and also to explore whether self-confidence towards science and knowledge about the usefulness of science influenced their attitudes. Grade seven girls’ (N=15) were the participants. A questionnaire and interview schedules were used to study the relationship between factors affecting the attitudes of young female learners towards science at the primary school. T-test show that there was a...
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High-potassium felsic volcanic rocks interlayered with basalt and komatiite in early Archaean greenstone sequences in the Barberton Greenstone Belt of South Africa and Swaziland, previously considered to be derived from melting of mafic precursors, are shown to be the result of melting of significantly older felsic crust. This is documented by a combination of SHRIMP zircon dating with Hf-in-zircon and whole-rock Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic data. Zircons from felsic rocks of the oldest...
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Taking into an account dynamically changing nutrition practices in Papua New Guinea (PNG), this study aimed to document and elucidate ethnocultural food practices related to pregnancy. With convenient sampling, 176 pregnant women were interviewed using a semistructured questionnaire. The participants originated from three different ethnic rural communities in Madang Province and one from Simbu Province. Strength of beliefs in traditional food customs and taboos among pregnant women varied...
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This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in South Africa.Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyze the large racial gaps in the proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university and other forms of post-secondary education.Our results indicate that family background and high school achievement (measured by a literacy and numeracy exam and performance on the grade 12...
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This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in South Africa. Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyze the large racial gaps in the proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university and other forms of post-secondary education. Although there are enormous income differences between blacks and whites, and a strong relationship between income and post-secondary enrollment, we find...
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ABSTRACT The restoration of the early twentieth-century Villa Cāsdaglī in the Garden City area of downtown Cairo near Tahrir Square is a comprehensive project begun by the Centre for the Conservation of Islamic Architectural Heritage under the direction of the author. The assessment and study of materials described in this article was a painstaking effort of more than three years and involved laboratory tests and examination of many different materials, including textiles, wooden furniture...