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A child must be exposed to early learning situations and assisted in developing the skills and ways of functioning to develop, thrive, and be ready for school. It is established that poor school readiness preparation (SRP) negatively impacts subsequent learning outcomes. A qualitative study was conducted in Gugulethu, a poor community in the Western Cape province in South Africa, to determine how Early Childhood Development centres in a poor community prepare children for schooling. The...

The Department of Teacher Education (DTE), through its affiliate teacher training colleges has mandated the roll out of open and distance learning mode in its programmes. This preferred critical path is intended to assist trainees with the needed mental, emotional and material support during their period of Teaching Practice. This case study examined the implementation of Open Distance Learning (ODL) in a primary teacher education college in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Mixed methods research...

This research aimed to establish the factors determining credit accessibility from Microfinance institutions among persons with disabilities in Mombasa County, Kenya. The study was carried out to establish the effect of occupation on credit access from Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) by Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Mombasa County. The study tested the hypothesis on the above objectives to enhance the realization of the key factors that constrain credit accessibility by PWDs. The...

This article explores patriarchal supremacist content in English secondary school Literature in postcolonial South Africa. In the course of colonization and Bantu Education, South African women, particularly Blacks were excluded in matters of education. They did not only endure racial, sexist, cultural, and other gendered-based atrocities in their societies and homes, they also suffered politically, economically, and intellectually. That made them more apprehensive than white women. For...

The psychological resilience and coping strategies among university students in Ethiopia have not been researched. This study aims to examine it among undergraduate students at Wallaga University, among 398 students. Data was collected using Resilience Resource Scale (RRS) and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). The total score on RRS ranges from 16 to 60, with a mean score of 49.12 (SD 7.06), and CISS score ranges from 41 to 105, with a mean score of 76.62 (SD 11.22). Rural...

In South Africa, as is globally, many people struggle with the challenges which emanate from developmental dyslexia (DD). It is thus important for educators to have adequate knowledge and a positive mindset regarding DD and the management thereof in the school context. One such important method of management is the accommodation of these learners in mainstream class. The quantitative survey study reported on here was aimed at determining the perspectives of educators in 2 private schools in...

The mechanical properties of rocks, such as uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus of intact rock, must be determined before any engineering project by employing lab or in situ tests. However, there are some circumstances where it is impossible to prepare the necessary specimens after exposure to high temperatures. Therefore, the propensity to estimate the destructive parameters of thermally heated rocks based on non-destructive factors is a helpful research field. Egyptian...

Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems are abundantly present in the genomes of various bacterial pathogens. TA systems have been implicated in either plasmid maintenance or protection against phage infection, stress adaptation or disease pathogenesis. The genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes for more than 90 TA systems and 4 of these belong to the type IV subfamily (MenAT family). The toxins and antitoxins belonging to type IV TA systems share sequence homology with the AbiEii family of...

Education delves into issues in developing nations, including Sokoto; thus, poor supervision rendered public schools poor than private ones. The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between instructional supervision and teacher effectiveness in senior secondary schools in Tambuwal local government area of Sokoto state, Nigeria using a correlational survey design. Therewith, 165 teachers and 9 principals were involved. Analysis shows that 84(52.5%) of teachers agreed...

Climate change has greatly impacted global agriculture. This situation has aggravated the present burning issue of world food crisis. Santa Sub-Division epitomizes areas over the globe that are facing this problem. This study, therefore, stood out to research the specific adaptation strategies of Irish ptatao farmers. The Methodology that has been adopted entailed Classical and Impirrical approaches. This required the collection of data from secondary sources through the consultation of...

Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors in the world. Climate change represents a major threat to Africa. The climate change grave consequences of a temperature increase above 1.5°C, Rainfall patterns are disrupted, glaciers are disappearing and key lakes are shrinking. In all Africa in general, and east Africa in particular is the most vulnerable continent to climate...

Borrowing the participation level typology from civic participation literature, in the study reported on here, we explored the level of learner participation in school governance in 1 girls’ high school in South Africa. We demonstrate that despite the schools’ self-claimed progressive stance, its learner participation still exhibits numerous nuanced examples of tokenism. Using a qualitative research design and purposive sampling, we collected data from interviews and observation to examine...

The study compared the Jigsaw Method and the Chalk-and-Talk methods of learners’ achievements in grade 12 reaction rates. A quasi-experimental design was used, with two classes of 44 learners, one class of 21 as the experimental group and another with 23 as the control group. Data were collected using Achievements Test for pre-test and post-tests and analysed using percentages, Means, Standard Deviations, t-tests and Analysis of Covariance. The post-test results from EG using Jigsaw Method...

Children in sub-Saharan African countries face higher exposure to gender-based violence (GBV) compared to their counterparts in other world regions (United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF], 2014). When GBV occurs in schools, it severely endangers access to education. Using the third round of data of the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) from over 60,000 Grade 6 learners across 14 countries, we examined the relationship between GBV in primary...

Climate change poses immense challenges for food security in most developing countries. The extent to which residents are able to reduce their impact on food resources and adapt to climate change will have implications for their livelihoods. Although climate change research has explored adaptation strategies to mitigate the negative effects on food security, empirical work on how climate change affects rural household food security in South Africa has been limited. This paper examines not...

With this article, we investigate how primary school teachers create enabling environments to accommodate diversity in their classrooms. In the study reported on here, we used the qualitative research approach and a case study research design was adopted. Five primary school teachers were recruited through purposive sampling to participate in the study. Data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire. We employed pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) (Shulman,1986) as a theoretical...

People living with disabilities are often women and the elderly and those from low-income families. There is paucity in research on women with mobility disabilities' experiences of maternity care during pregnancy, labour and puerperium in Eswatini.To explore and describe women with mobility disabilities' experiences of maternity care during pregnancy, labour and puerperium in Eswatini.The study was conducted in the Hhohho and Manzini regions in Eswatini, between March 2019 and July 2019.A...

With inequality at the forefront of economic development, this paper examined the impact of gender inequality on economic growth in South Africa. Different gender dimensions were considered, including female education, female labor force participation, fertility, and the representation of women in the political arena (democracy). The research applied a quantitative approach (Autoregressive Distributive lag) (ARDL) with secondary data on the proportion of all variables spanning from 1989 to...