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This study evaluated the cooking energy costs and efficiencies, the air pollution impacts of cooking energy consumption and the impact of the energy policy in the cooking energy sector in Nigeria. Water boiling and cooking experiments using the common cooking energy sources (fuel wood, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electricity) and common food items (water, yam and beans) were carried out. Energy surveys were carried out to determine the cooking energy use patterns in the urban...
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Abstract: This paper aims to introduce selected issues from the international literature on skills training into the South African policy forum. Reform of national strategies in skills production has characterised a number of industrial as well as certain developing economies in recent decades. Their experience is potentially valuable locally. The main lessons are that skills training resembles education in being partly a public good. The acquisition of skills parallels the acquisition of...
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This study is a path modeling, which examines the effect and magnitude of four socio-cultural indicators on adolescents' response to HIV/AIDS preventive practices in Nigerian setting. Questionnaire data were generated from 316 fifth year students in 12 secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. Result of data analysis, using path analyses procedures indicated that only three socio-cultural factors were effective in explaining adolescents' response to HIV/AIDS preventive practices....
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Fagan (1986 Fagan, T. K. 1986. School psychology’s dilemma: reappraising solutions and directing attention to the future. American Psychologist, 41: 851–861. [Google Scholar], p. 859) stated many years ago that ‘school psychology has survived the complex interaction between education and psychology, and will continue to do so in future’. Applied and adapted to South(ern) Africa of 2007, one may ask whether inclusive education will survive the complex interaction with the HIV and AIDS...
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Impressive advancements have been made in educational opportunities for students with disabilities, whose historic relationship with American public schools has been marked by educational disenfranchisement or mis-education. Critical judicial impetus for these educational opportunities was provided by landmark court cases in which African American and other students of color played vital roles. This litigation culminated in the principles of access, non discrimination, and due process...
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This study investigated computer attitudes of 240 students from eight primary and secondary schools in South Africa. The student population of six of the eight schools that participated in the study can be characterised as middle or upper class. Two schools were from South African townships. All eight schools used computers for educational purposes, although the availability and use of the computers differed. The research question of the study was whether differences in computer attitude...
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(2007). African Renaissance: The need for gender-inclusive developmental states. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 73-87.
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This paper focuses on youth voices about sex and AIDS and reveals significant discrepancies between the ‘ideal adult worldview’ and the ‘practical youth worldview’ on sexual matters. In discussing the ‘youth worldview’, it draws on Piaget’s theories of childhood development and Perry’s theory of student development, both theories which postulate that children cannot learn material if they have not reached a particular level of development. It concludes that life skills implementation is the...
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Public schools have historically been key sites where children learn of and adopt a common national identity. In states where multiculturalism plays a central role in the articulation of a national identity, schools actively recognize and support the diverse cultures of their students in fulfilling this function. Canada is a state where, via federal policy, multiculturalism has been identified as a fundamental element of the national ethos. Formal education has been a key area in which the...
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This article chronicles a journey to achieve type of education that focused on battles to secure access to schooling and a curriculum for full citizenship. The pursuit of educational opportunity has been and continues to be tortuous, with each step toward progress met by a major societal set back. As fate of individuals and nations is increasingly tied up in their ability to learn, quest for access to an equitable, empowering education for African Americans has become a critical issue for...
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This study employed the Ricardian approach to measure the economic impacts of climate change on farm net revenue in Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which factors influence the variability of farm net revenues. 900 households from 20 governorates were interviewed. The standard Ricardian model was applied, in addition to three other models, each representing an adaptation option that could be used to reduce the...
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Fagard, R; Damasceno, A; Lemogoum, D; M'Buyamba-Kabangu, JR; Mendis, S; Onwubere, B; Polonia, J; Seedat, Y chair of the Low and Middle Income Countries Committee, on behalf of Author Information