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"African Children in the American Classroom: The WebQuest as a Pedagogical Tool." Journal of the African Literature Association, 9(1), pp. 43–72

Ethiopia, one of the developing countries, is facing serious natural resource degradation problems. The main objective of this study was to examine the farmer’s perceptions and adaptation to climate change through conservation agriculture. The data used for the study were collected from 142 farm household heads drawn from five kebeles. Primary data and secondary data were used. In addition to descriptive statistics, Heckman two stage sample selection model was employed to examine farmer’s...

This study examines the effects of the components of public education expenditure on both education attainment and economic growth in Nigeria from 1970 to 2010.The Instrumental Variable Two Stage Least Squares estimation technique is employed to test the hypothesis that both recurrent and capital expenditure on education have different effects on education attainment and economic growth. The result reveals that public education expenditure has both direct and indirect effects on economic...

SACCOs are important in the provision of financial and banking services to low income households who for economic reasons cannot be covered by formal banks and financial institutions. The need for stakeholders such as SACCOs to support members to finance higher education of their dependants has been growing rapidly as public budgets cannot adequately fund higher education. The general objective of the study was to assess the need for Morogoro Teachers‟ SACCOs to participate in higher...

The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by World Health Organization and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability Therefore, about 10 per cent of the world’s populations are PWDs. Out of the number said above, 80 per cent of PWDs live in developing countries. As for Tanzania in particular, the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO)’s reports of 2007 estimated that there were more...

This research was conducted to investigate the prediction of principals’ administrative effectiveness based on imprest received by the schools. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the researcher. Survey design was adopted for the study. Population of the study was 472. This consisted 86 principals and 380 vice principals in public secondary schools in Uyo Senatorial District. Multi-stage sampling technique was used. The total sample used was 180. 36...

Restiveness among the youth globally and those in Nigeria has become a behavioral pattern which degenerated into topical global issue. Youth restiveness portrays mankind negative side of social development which has become one of the many security challenges facing humankind in contemporary society. This negative development is rather unfortunate as lives and properties worth millions naira have been lost or vandalized and some razed down by restive youths. Human society is a complex entity...

Crime Prevention Training is a collaborative project between United States International University (USIU) and Kenya School of Government (KSG), funded by Open Society Initiative East Africa (OSIEA) through its Crime and Violence Prevention Initiative. It was launched in 2011-2012 as a modular training at KSG which brought together government, civil society and academia to learn together about crime prevention in Kenya. The success has led to further phases of training and adaptation to...

Entrepreneurship development is any society like Nigeria can achieve its desire objectives in sustaining and maintaining healthy economic condition through education. This is because education imbibes in individual entrepreneur the spirit of sportsmanship and behavioural traits relevance to make an enterprise more productive. In view of this therefore, this paper discusses the conditions that can foster the development of entrepreneur in Nigeria, entrepreneur and professional skill,...

Entrepreneurship development is any society like Nigeria can achieve its desire objectives in sustaining and maintaining healthy economic condition through education. This is because education imbibes in individual entrepreneur the spirit of sportsmanship and behavioural traits relevance to make an enterprise more productive. In view of this therefore, this paper discusses the conditions that can foster the development of entrepreneur in Nigeria, entrepreneur and professional skill,...

In northern Nigeria, widows' identities and status are defined within the mores, norms, traditional religions, and legal institutions of the cultures of the community. The ethnic cultural laws are oppressive and retrogressive. The nexus of these cultural pressures trigger discriminatory practices that deny school attending widows' access, and completion of primary and secondary levels of education, leaving them literacy bankrupt and unskilled to fend for themselves and their children. These...

British policy towards religion in colonial Africa was influenced by its intrinsic value to the maintenance of a very strong administration over the continent and achieving the socio-economic objectives Britain set itself at the beginning of its colonization. The Benin Kingdom had been largely untouched by any world religion before the British conquered the Kingdom in 1897 and this conquest facilitated the penetration of Christianity and Islam therein. The failure of Christian missionaries...

The paper discusses the effectiveness of physics education as a tool for resolving security and environmental problems in Nigeria. It also discusses the status and potentials of physics education and the critical role it plays in addressing security challenges. It further highlights some environmental challenges facing the country’s ecosystem and the critical roll physics education plays in alleviating them. It provides some recommendations, such as restructuring the physics curriculum,...

Nigeria’s National Policy on ICT’s main objective is to create a conducive environment for rapid expansion of ICT networks and services that are accessible to all at reasonable costs while its policy statement is to ensure the country’s effective participation in regional and international ICT to promote ICT development. Given the emphasis on ICT by the Nigerian government in schools, this study seeks to examine related literature on the state of ICT access currently available to teachers...

After predictions about South Africa teetering on the brink of a bloodbath, the world was stunned when South Africa’s apartheid government negotiated itself out of power in 1992. The negotiations paved the way for a non-racial, multiparty democracy (albeit with a Government of National Unity for the first years). Although the transition was portrayed as a fairy tale come true, the question about what the future holds for this new democracy and the potential for its consolidation remains a...

The opposing renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and kallikrein-kinin system (KKS) are upregulated in pregnancy and localize in the utero-placental unit. To test their participation as counter-regulators, circulating angiotensin II (AII) was exogenously elevated and the bradykinin B2 receptor (B2R) was antagonized in pregnant guinea-pigs. We hypothesized that disrupting the RAS/KKS balance during the period of maximal trophoblast invasion and placental development would provoke increased blood...

I estimate the eect of increased enrollment following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania on cohorts fully exposed to the new fee regime. I address the potential endogeneity of regional enrollment growth using an instrument based on predetermined fertility decisions. I nd that enrollment growth led to large increases in the pupil-teacher ratio, and a reduction in average teacher expe

On attainment of democracy, South Africa ratified several international conventions such as UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which all among other objectives, seek to attain gender equality in education. This study investigated how, despite their formal access to schooling, pregnant learners at two high schools in Vhembe...