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Countries all over the world are experiencing the devastating havoc of climate change. Drastic efforts directed at integrating climate change education into the school curriculum in South African Secondary schools have been unsuccessful due to a lack of training support for teachers teaching Climate Change Education in secondary schools. The purpose of this paper was to explore the role of teacher capacitation programs in assisting Geography teacher to integrate climate change education in...

Abstract This article is an introduction to this Special Issue on Rethinking in Regional Integration in Africa which is based on a collaborative research project, implemented by African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the leading economic capacity building institution in Africa, and funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB). This project is very timely given the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which came into force on 01 January 2021. In this...

A student’s productive learning time is proportional to the length of time they spend working during their lessons. However, it is important to remember that the issues with educational time are not just about optimizing “in-school time.” The study is prompted by the time spent in school and how it impacts students learning outcomes in core mathematics, considering two different year groups for the May/June 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE-standardized...

Institutions of higher learning around the world are considering the use of technology as alternative methods of instruction. Mobile learning technologies and wireless networks are becoming increasingly popular tools of facilitating learning in higher education institutions. Mobile learning (or m-learning) has the ability to connect learners to information anytime and anywhere. While some studies have explored the challenges and the issues of implementing this technology, a majority have...

This article is based on a bigger study that sought to establish the relationship between affective factors with students` achievement in mathematics. The article shares findings from the study objective to establish the relationship between student attitude and achievement in mathematics. The descriptive Survey research design on a sample size of 250 students used a mathematics attitude questionnaire and mathematics achievement test to collect quantitative data. The computational formula of...

Background: Several human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention strategies have been implemented to counteract the impact of the disease, including the use of condoms, social marketing, testing, voluntary counselling and education programmes. One of the platforms which has not been fully explored is that of traditional initiation schools. Objectives: This study aimed to explore and discuss Vhavenda traditional initiation schools, which can be...

Kenya’s vulnerability to climate variability and change has been compounded by dependence on rain-fed agriculture with constrained capacity to adapt, a rapidly growing population, low-mechanized and low-input smallholder agricultural systems, and compromised soil fertility. The Ukraine war, COVID-19 and the desert locust invasion have only amplified the prevailing sensitivity to shocks in the agriculture sector, creating an emphasis on the need to strengthen local agricultural production to...

The extensive militarization of the Niger Delta region further elicited a long drawn militancy postures from the restive youth, and the impact of the opposing postures of both State armed actors and non-state armed actors, could be seen aggravating both education security and economic security of the region. It was against this background that this engages relative deprivation theory to investigate the impact of militancy on human security in Niger Delta. The study looked at economic...

The present study investigated the use of the local Chinese character textbook Learn Chinese Characters Easily by Chinese language (second language) learners at the Confucius classroom of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Nigeria. A sample of 50 students out of the 65 selected from the Confucius classroom were randomly investigated for their opinions on their use of the local Chinese character textbook. The findings indicated that the use of the local Chinese character textbook has aroused students’...

Educators’ reading comprehension instructional practices have been identified as 1 of the factors that contribute to learners’ poor reading comprehension performance. To this end, several studies were conducted to identify and analyse educators’ practices while teaching reading comprehension. As a result, the aim of the study reported on here was to investigate educators’ teaching practices when teaching reading comprehension in order to diagnose challenges and then make recommendations. The...

South African schools are faced with an arguably insurmountable problem as a culture of indiscipline continually increases in schools. Despite being undeterred by the legal framework that guides stakeholders in the discipline crisis in schools, indiscipline in schools has soared to critical levels. Scant literature exists on how stakeholders collaborate in managing discipline in schools. The research reported on here was guided by the primary research question: How do stakeholders...

Background: In 2012, the South African government initiated the Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP) to serve as a national guideline on providing school health and support services from key stakeholders such as the Department of Health (DoH), Department of Basic Education (DBE) and Department of Social Development (DSD). However, despite the ISHP regulations, publications report that teachers in under-resourced government schools are not sufficiently equipped to address their learners’...

<ns3:p><ns3:bold>Background: </ns3:bold>Adolescence is a time of psycho-social and physiological changes, with increased associated health risks including vulnerability to pregnancy, HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and gender-based violence. Adolescent learners, from three townships in South Africa, participated in a 44 session, after-school asset-building intervention (GAP Year), over 2 years providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education. This paper explores adolescent...

Globally, the universities are recognized as the centres of higher learning, which are considered as expedient agents of development in the nation building. Curriculums determine the skills and knowledge that will be obtained from the qualification, and these are vital in the progress and transition of one’s life. However, in South Africa higher education requires a synergy to engage the issues of redress. In addressing apartheid legacy, transformation in higher education curriculum remains...

Background: There is limited evidence on the potential benefits of bilingual medium of instruction (MOI) in sub-Saharan Africa. Purpose: This study examines the association between bilingual MOI and learning outcomes in Senegal and Zambia, analyzes how the association varies among students from different linguistic backgrounds, and estimates how consistent the relational patterns are between the two countries. Design and methods: The study Employs hierarchical linear modelling with PISA for...

Exploring the finest shortest-path traveling salesman optimization application is a typical NP-hard problem. Similarly the solution of the large-scale optimization applications is also a big challenging issue in front of scientists. First, African Vultures Optimization Algorithm (AVOA) was developed to resolve continuous applications where it performed fine. In the last few months, many enhanced strategies of AVOA have been offered in recent literature works and it has been extensively...

Multi-grade teaching is a widely accepted phenomenon in both developing and developed countries. In this article I report on a phenomenological inquiry into written feedback practices of teachers in multi-grade classrooms and how they described and interpreted their feedback practices pertaining to learners’ writing activities in English First Additional Language. Written feedback is widely believed to be central to learners’ learning and achievement. Feedback is assumed to change learners’...