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Caring behaviours are taught through instruction and clinical instructors’ role modelling while training student nurses. Learning to care for patients and providing safe nursing care is central to any nursing programme. The effects of caring actions are lifelong, positively impact patient outcomes, and result in nurses’ improved physical and emotional well-being. During student nurses’ clinical placement, they complete clinical assessments where they demonstrate practical and theoretical...
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Teacher education in Melanesia is not always evident in Pacific education literature. This chapter covers four countries – the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Fiji, and Vanuatu – vis-à-vis their historical and colonial contexts and the geopolitical, global-economic, and sociocultural conditions associated with teacher education. The impacts of colonization through the presence of colonial administrations across the four small island nations in Melanesia are often evident through...
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Teacher education in Melanesia is not always evident in Pacific education literature. This chapter covers four countries – the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Fiji, and Vanuatu – vis-à-vis their historical and colonial contexts and the geopolitical, global-economic, and sociocultural conditions associated with teacher education. The impacts of colonization through the presence of colonial administrations across the four small island nations in Melanesia are often evident through...
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This study focuses on monitoring the exposure of populations in South Benin to atmospheric pollution. Thirteen (13) monitoring points were identified where the Air quality measurements were taken using autonomous electronic devices called “Air Quality Monitor”. Calibrated and turned on, the measuring device automatically determines the concentrations of carbon dioxide CO2, Total Organic Compounds, methanal (HCHO), particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and...
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Since 1994, several countries shifted in paradigm from exclusive to inclusive education in compliance with civil rights movements as expressed in global human rights instruments. Inclusive education optimizes access, participation, acceptance, and success of all students including those who could have failed to qualify for admission into their neighbourhood schools or could have been placed in educational settings other than regular schools. These values of inclusive education are not...
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Purpose -The purpose of this article was to navigate and investigate the causes, manifestations, and ramifications of suicides committed by students in South African Schools; more especially in so far as how these impact the wellness of school communities (parents, teachers, non-teaching staff, and students themselves) in schools affected.Design/Methodology/Approach -The methodology that was used in the study is the Qualitative Research Methodology.Data collection and analysis were done...
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This article analyses how politics and livelihoods are challenged and affected by global climate change while paying particular attention to how traditionally formed, non-climatic factors are manipulated within Zimbabwe's climate change policy framework. In this context, the article will proffer legislation and laws as tools of governance that enable climate change policies and legislature to be implemented within the confines of the existing constitution. The methods will be drawn from an...
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The objective of this work is to study the ethno botanical importance of Anogeissus leiocarpa and the potential impacts of climate and global changes on the spatial distribution of the species in order to contribute to its conservation and sustainable use.One hundred and eighty-nine (189) peoples were surveyed in the ten phytodistricts of Benin.Occurrences of Anogeissus leiocarpa downloaded from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) website...
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In African society, the disabled are often seen as objects of pity and as result exempted from normal activities especially of recreation and entertainment in order not to bother them. Also, it is believed majorly that their disability requires they should be hidden from the public eye as much as possible, not to talk of attracting undue attention to themselves. Hence, they hardly ever participate in stage performances or other recreational activities that require an audience/crowd. Apart...
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This paper reviewed moral decadence among primary school pupils in Delta State. It defined and examined moral decadence among primary school pupils in Delta State. The descriptive survey research design was adopted using 250 teachers from selected Primary schools in the selected local government in the 3 senatorial districts in Delta State. The objectives of the study are at identify type of school offences are committed by primary school pupils in Delta state, find out what is responsible...
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The student support services in an Open Distance e-Learning system are a vitally important component of achieving quality education. The focal point of this paper was to assess the student support services in the Open and Distance e-Learning (ODe-L) programme in one selected university in Zimbabwe. The study employed a mixed methods research approach following a parallel convergent research design. The study population comprised ODe-L students, coordinators, and lecturers. A stratified...
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This paper proposes five ideas that the design of data governance policies for the inclusive use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa should consider. The first is for African states to carry out an assessment of their domestic strategic priorities, strengths, and weaknesses. The second is a human-centric approach to data governance which involves data processing practices that protect security of personal data and privacy of data subjects; ensures that personal data is processed in a...