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The focus of this chapter is on how language is used in primary mathematics teaching to support children in learning the decimal structure in their home language. An excerpt from a Sepedi-medium classroom is used to understand how the teacher uses language to support early number learning. The notions of language, as having different degrees of explicitness, and being a transparent resource, form the theoretical framing. This framing is applied to an excerpt of early number classroom...
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Impression management forms an integral part of the arena of tools which school leaders use to influence their followers. School leaders are now called upon to lead schools in the wake of challenges and changes brought about by new policies and reforms in the educational sector. They are more and more being held accountable for the performance of their schools. This has created very complex situations at school. Many school leaders have had to revisit their practice and consider how to...
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In this article, we examine the influence of education on the exercise of married women's reproductive autonomy.We carried out 34 in-depth interviews (IDIs) with purposively sampled married Ikwerre women in Rivers State, Nigeria.The participants were between the ages of 22 and 60, had different educational backgrounds, and were in monogamous and polygynous marriages.Data were analyzed using MAXQDA 11 software.We found that although formal education enhanced women's ability to exercise...
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Socrates pronounced that "An unexamined life is not worth living" and maintained the belief that the purpose of human life was personal and spiritual growth.This article explores, against this background, the motives and experiences of 12 student volunteers who assisted with the assessment of sentenced offenders in custodial settings in South Africa, as part of the "third mission" of the Department of Criminology and Security Science at the University of South Africa (Unisa).A case study...
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Background: The context of work for nurses is rapidly changing due to changes in care, innovative technologies, and emergence of new knowledge.Participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in many countries in Africa remains low.Objective: The objective of the study was to explore the challenges facing Nurses while participating in CPD in Western Kenya.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was employed where 235 stratified and randomly selected nurses and four CPD...
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At first glance, the term “heritage language” as applied in North America and Europe does not appear to relate directly to the postcolonial multilingual scenario in South Africa. Here the term “heritage languages” is applied narrowly to languages not declared official languages, such as minority indigenous languages, nonindigenous languages from Asia and Europe, and languages used for religious purposes. Such “heritage languages” are protected in terms of the South African Constitution. In...
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The present article draws upon the sociology of public action to examine the “fragile state” category. Two hypotheses (concerning the inflexible transfer of an internationally-constructed reform model is transferred and the absence of civil society actors from the public policy process) are put to the test of two reforms (or attempts at reform) of the higher education sector in Burundi. The first reform consisted in applying the bachelor-Master-Doctorate model that resulted from the Bologna...
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In response to a global policy effort to increase school enrollment, in 1994 Malawi became one of the first low-income countries to eliminate primary school fees. Since then, Malawi has achieved nearly universal primary enrollment, however enrolling young Malawians in school has not translated into keeping them in school. This policy brief describes the nature and consequences of school violence in rural Malawi—a common experience for both girls and boys. There is little evidence that school...
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Students’ involvement in assessment decisions is considered as a critical to effective teaching and learning. This study examined students’ perception of their involvement in assessment decisions in the University of Cape Coast Distance Education. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design with a quantitative approach. Through multi-stage sampling technique, 618 distance education students were sampled from centres in three regions in Ghana. The study adapted a scale from Fisher et...
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Climate change may create serious problems for farmers by increasing precipitation variability and drought and flood events.Understanding how to build livelihood resilience to these effects is a pressing need.Agroforestry is one potential solution.Although many people intuitively link agroforestry with livelihood resilience to floods and drought, little comprehensive empirical evidence exists.Here, we strive to answer the call for more empirical evidence by drawing on field work in Isiolo...
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The issue of national development is one of the major challenges that the present administration is giving priority. So in this paper the student of social studies and non-social studies were asked on the role of citizenship education in promoting good governance and national development in Nigeria. Two research questions and two research hypotheses were set to guide the study. The population of the study consists of all NCE Social Studies students and Non-social Studies students from...