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This article draws on the Darvin and Norton (2015) model of investment to investigate how Ugandan teachers use children’s stories from the African Storybook website with minimal pedagogical support, unlike most similar interventions. Data for this case study were collected in the form of fieldnotes, interviews, and focus group discussions in a Ugandan primary school. The findings indicate that the use of stories expands the repertoire of teaching methods and topics, and that this use is...
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The African Storybook (ASb) is a digital initiative that promotes multilingual literacy for African children by providing openly licenced children's stories in multiple African languages, as well as English, French, and Portuguese. Based on Darvin and Norton's ( ) model of identity and investment, and drawing on the Douglas Fir Group's ( ) framework for second language acquisition, this study investigates Ugandan primary school teachers’ investment in the ASb, its impact on their teaching,...
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In DRC, the Healthy Villages and Schools (VEA) National Program consists of a community participatory process towards sustainable access to improved water services, hygiene and sanitation where villages and schools are certified “healthy” once they comply with 7 WASH specific norms. Through a mixed-methods survey of household questionnaires, water quality testing of source and stored water samples, mapping of water sources, and discussions with key informants, this study looked at...
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The contradictions of depoliticized (economic) globalization in Africa south of the Sahara are reinforced by current communication technologies. Inadequate ICT skills among students and teachers, traditional philosophy of teaching and learning, lack of technical expertise on digital contents production, lack of relevant e-learning curriculum, and selective investments in ICT infrastructure have led to ‘hypermobile learning’. We witness the imbrication of neo-colonial object-subject relations...
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The aim of this case study was to investigate how children in one school in Ghana interacted with their peers and used playground space within their play. The data was collected through video recorded observations in a range of contexts. Two videos were analysed for each research question against associated literature. This study identified that although play is a universal characteristic, it varies due to influences such as cultural norms and so it should be observed from an unrestricted...
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Air plays a vital role to support the life system of all kind of living things in the biosphere.Air is defined as the elastic, invisible and tasteless mixture of gases that surrounds the earth.Quality of air is being changed day to day, due to the natural and anthropogenic activities.The simultaneous growth of urbanization, industrialization and transportation leads to air pollution, which causes severe impact on the environment.Emissions from different sources like Point, Area and Line are...
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In this chapter, we examine youth-led innovation in the context of a recent multi-stakeholder development project, in which university students from Uganda and Finland collaborated to generate solutions to water and sanitation problems faced by schoolchildren in Northern Uganda. We focus on the project’s impact on developing change agent capabilities among the participating students and discuss the practical implications for the design and facilitation of similar initiatives. With a view to...
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Formal Islamic Education received tremendous boost with rapid increase in the number of Schools and Teachers in the recent past in Northern Nigeria generally and Nasarawa State specifically. Predictably, Pupils enrolment also incredibly expanded. This burst of Islamic educational activities brought in its marked changes, some positive, while others negative. Thus, the rapid increase in enrolment figures and the clamour for better and quality Islamic education by educationally conscious...