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Children with IDs have generalised neurological disorders, characterised by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning (WHO, 2015) which inhibits them from progressing into higher grades and compete favourably with others.Intellectual disability is categorized in categories which are; mild, moderate, severe and profound.Children with MIDs have an intelligent quotient (IQ) of between 50 and 69.These children are capable of learning reading and acquiring mathematical skills...

The influence of resources such as water, energy, land, and food on each other prompted global communities to investigate their role in the sustainable development discourse and develop contemporary measures to address interlinkages between these systems. The current study sought to understand and explore the WECC nexus in South Africa, with the view to promote a holistic and coordinated approach in its analysis. This was achieved within the discourse of Integrated Water Resource Management...

Teaching and learning is a complex process, which deals with different individuals with different expectations from diverse backgrounds, with different cultural and social capital involved in this process.The teaching and learning process in most South African institutions of higher learning has been plagued by several challenges over the last decade.In this research, the experiences of international postgraduate student lecturers teaching at a university in KwaZulu-Natal were...

The Ten-Year Innovation Plan (2008–2018) of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) identified space science and technology as one of the five grand challenges for South Africa to become a key contributor to global space science and technology, with a National Space Agency, a growing satellite industry, and a range of innovations in space sciences, earth observation, communications, navigation, and engineering. The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) was established in 2008...

This book focuses on the knowledge area of higher education governance, organisational dynamics, leadership and decolonisation. We have observed that governance discourse has been excluded in debates that concern the public good. The construct of public good seeks to support higher education that does not support a capitalist view of profit-making, arguably to respond to societal demands and needs such as developmental efforts through academic functions. Higher Education focuses on...

Educationally, electronic media are the communication resources for those who offer and support education and those who are participating in educational activities. Achieving the Sustainable Millennium Development Goals (SDG) with respect to UNESCO recommendations for committing 15%-25% of the developing nations annual budget to education toward realizing SMDG Goal #4, emphasis is on quality and affordable education for all human beings. Notwithstanding the substantial advancement in...

This paper investigates the teachers’ perceptions of inclusive education in public primary schools in Kenya.It particularly explores the influence of the teachers’ demographic variables on the perceptions of inclusive education in the regular school system. The study is guided by the positioning theory puts emphasis on within the framework of discursive psychology and requires close analysis of cues that participants use to position themselves, their listeners, and others. The analysis...

Abstract This chapter conceptualizes self-help groups as communities of practice where learning citizenship practices experienced. Qualitative research through interviews and focus group discussions was employed for data collection in Mpwapwa District, Rural Tanzania. Drawing on (Lave and Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation , Cambridge University Press, 1991) notion of situated learning through legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice, I...

Despite the importance of pastoralism in many East African communities, there is a dearth of research in the region on how multi-season droughts affect pastoralists. Using a panel dataset of 1,064 pastoralists surveyed over 6 years in Kenya, we compare how two successive drought events in 2009 and 2011 affected households’ animal holdings, decision-making, livelihoods and long-term recovery. Both droughts were associated with reduced household income from livestock and increased expenditure...

This book critically examines the role of governments in promoting parity during and in post-pandemic education. This comes from the realisation that the pandemic has deepened the crisis by depleting the meagre resources that African countries might have devoted to ‘normative educational practices’ where those on the margins would have been pushed further behind while the privileged would have been further initiated into the cultural and capital flows of private schools and historically...

Embracing of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by most secondary schools in Uganda, especially in Kigezi region is faced by a number of challenges which had not yet been clearly documented. The purpose of this study was to establish whether ICT is being integrated in the teaching and learning process among selected secondary schools in Kigezi region. The study was guided by MICTIVO model (2009) of ICT integration. The quantitative research approach was the main approach while...

The purpose of this evaluation study was to investigate the effectiveness of problem based learning as a stem learning approach in improving student's academic achievements in physics in stem model schools in Nairobi Metropolitan Region, Kenya.The evaluation used the convergent parallel mixed method design of which quantitative paradigm utilized survey design while qualitative used phenomenology approach.The target population comprised of 11principals, 60 teachers and 1120 students while 11...

The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of temperature variations on agricultural yield in the Republic of Congo over a period from 1990 to 2020.Following the estimation of the ARDL model, the results of the estimation, in the short run, confirmed the hypothesis of a negative and significant relationship between temperature rising and agricultural yield in the Republic of Congo.In the long run, these effects subside overtime, and subsequently improve agricultural yields.These...

Psychosocial risks have negative effects on the health and safety of people and on the performance of companies.This is also the case at the University of Douala where several unfavorable working conditions were recorded, which testifies to the importance of psychosocial risk management.This research aims to contribute to the improvement of working conditions, health and safety through the management of psychosocial risks at the University of Douala.To achieve this objective, we have had...

Background: Due to the shortage of medical literature in the Syrian society regarding photogrammetric soft tissue analysis, we aim to define the values of anthropometric measurements among Syrian students in the faculty of medicine at the Syrian Private University.Methods: 100 Syrian students were included in the study to compare the measurements with the adjustments made using Adobe Photoshop 2020 on the nose to redefine the ideal nasal anthropometric based on student desire. Lateral and...