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The government of Palestine is committed to achieving universal access to high-quality public preschools for all children in Gaza and West Bank. A new curriculum was launched in 2017 with the aim of streamlining activities across pre-schools and ensuring that all pre-school children irrespective of whether they attend a private or public pre-school receive high quality early childhood care and education (ECCE). Delegates emphasized that a key challenge to successful implementation of the new...

A dissertation submitted to the Dept. of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Humanitiess, University of Botswana in partial fulfilment of the requirement of the degree of Masters in Archives and Records Management. Citation: Kube, S. (2019) The role of librarians in medical education at University of Botswana Faculty of Medicine (UBFOM), University of Botswana

The aim of this study is to reveal awareness level and self-efficacy beliefs of pre-service primary school teachers about the education of Syrian students in Turkey. In the research, 20 participants were determined on a voluntary basis among the senior students attending education faculty of a state university. The research was conducted with the focus group interview. Findings indicate that the participants are not aware of the current statistics and educational policies about Syrian...

Acute painful crisis due to vaso-occlusive event is the leading cause of hospitalization in patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA). Zinc deficiency in children with SCA is associated with increased frequency and severity of acute painful events. We determined serum zinc level in children with SCA during acute painful crisis and compared the same with children with SCA who are in steady state and healthy non-sickle cell disease children.This was a descriptive longitudinal study, involving...

Interpretive reading as an approach in teaching reading enhances the fluency and comprehension through using of expression, phrasing, reading rate and smoothness. Learners in Kisumu County have reflected incompetence in reading skills resulting in below average performance in English language examinations. This study sought to examine effect of interpretive reading on achievement in reading skills of secondary school learners. Using social constructivist theory, the study adopted quasi...

The study examined the perceptions of small-scale maize farmers in the Kingdom of eSwatini regarding the impacts of climate change.These perceptions were assessed by means of a five-point Likert scale; 59% of the respondents strongly agreed and 41% agreed that climate change has a significant influence on maize production and low yield.Multi-stage sampling involving purposive and random sampling was used in the study.The study was based on data from 188 small-scale maize farmers supplying...

This chapter examines the impact of the Boko Haram conflict on education. Theoretically, conflict tends to be a dominant and elusive concept. Although it is possible to agree that, in practice, conflict has a positive meaning as there is evidence of this in everyday productive debate, dialogue, and negotiation, the interpretation that emerged in this case is negative, as demonstrated by the violent clash between the Boko Haram Group and the Nigerian armed forces. Therefore, a particular...

This study focused on gender discrepancies in innovations and industrial development in Zimbabwe. The target population are into innovations in Kelvin West and City hall in Bulawayo city of Zimbabwe. Gender discrepancies are as a result of many factors that range from cultural to religious or traditional beliefs. This has seen lesser women in taking part in innovations that are traditionally male dominated. Women are involved in small innovations at a smaller scale due to the numerous roles...

This article critically examines how the concept of empathy is mobilized in the rhetoric of development education, and explores different ways of conceptualizing empathy as a pedagogical ideal and an affective experience. Its premise is that the concept of empathy has been insufficiently probed within academia, even though paradigm shifts in development have made the concept central to development education. In reference to narratives of African poverty, the article critiques literature...

A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of the Degree of Master of Science in Project Planning and Management (MSc. PPM) of Mzumbe University

This chapter assessed the learning needs of street vendors in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. The findings revealed that vendors in the streets of Accra were made up predominantly of young people aged between the ages of 16 and 40 years. Seventy-five percent (75%) of these street vendors had gone through basic education and about 55% of them showed interest in furthering their learning. A majority of those who wished to further their education and indicated that they wished to be assisted...

The adverse effects of climate change and climate variability have become some of the biggest environmental and socio-economic challenges for society, and for food supply chain actors, in particular. Serving as a serious inhibitor to the attainment of food security, climate change poses a fundamental threat to the availability, accessibility, stability and utilization of nutritious food and quality drinking water. The threat of this global phenomenon is not only apparent from the...

Educational orientation of youths in Nigeria is white-collar job directed, which is one of the factors responsible for the youth unemployment in the country, because the educational system itself fails to empower the ones passing through it.To solve the problem of unemployment in this situation, there is need to reorient the youths to think of job creation away from the mindset of job seekers, by inculcating entrepreneurship skill into the youths and building their interests towards...

Unintended pregnancies remain a subject of concern especially in the developing region mainly because of their potential adverse public health, social, and economic consequences. This paper contributes to the ongoing effort to understand the effects, influences, outcomes and to explore effective solutions to the problem. The study focused specifically on University undergraduate students with 23 male and female students participating in in-depth interviews. Findings show that despite their...

The study focused on the educational policy process in the Tanzanian Political Parties. The area of interest was the manifesto and policy establishing processes with a special focus on issues in education. The theoretical framework guiding this study was built by two theories, decision making theory on one hand and the stakeholder theory on the other. The study was qualitative.  Targeting quality and contents of education policies on one hand and the interface to or the use of research-based...

Recent evidence indicates that Neuropeptide Y (NPY) may function as a potent anxiolytic as well as a resilience factor that can insulate the brain from the effects of stress. However, most of these studies have utilized physical stressors such as shock or restraint. In the present study, we use an ethologically-based model in Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) called Conditioned Defeat (CD) to investigate whether NPY can ameliorate the effect of social defeat stress. In the CD model, a...