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This study aimed to gain a deep understanding of how teachers in Botswana develop their professional identity and how it is shaped by their professional status. Using a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were conducted to understand how teachers develop their professional identity. Based on a social symbolic interaction perspective, this study's findings revealed that being a teacher is informed by various social interactions within teachers' contexts. Furthermore, this study revealed...

The study aimed at revealing the effectiveness of online learning in light of the lockdowns caused by the Corona pandemic from the perspective of the primary school teachers in the Gaza Strip at the level of students, teachers, and school administration. The researchers adopted the descriptive-analytical approach. For the data collection, the researchers designed a questionnaire on a sample of (400) male and female teachers who were randomly chosen. The results revealed that the level of...

This paper looked at the relevance of digitalized .curriculum, its ease and effectiveness at actualizing the basic education programme in Nigeria; and this informs national development. The author is of the opinion that the basic education which is a mandatory nine years academic programme is an imperative for encouraging mass literacy and numeracy, requisite skills for job creation , and avenue for educational opportunity for a long-life learning for the out of school for formal and...

African Studies as a scholarly discipline has colonial origins. The traces of these origins remain evident in contemporary scholarship on Africa. As someone who teaches African Studies at a South African university, I have been working with my students to think about how to write and teach about Africa in a way that acknowledges and challenges these colonial origins. This paper reflects on these efforts, using V.Y. Mudimbe’s notion of the colonial library to discuss students’ responses to...

Addressing Sexuality Education among learners in rural schools can be challenging when using traditional designs such as ethnography and phenomenology. This paper introduces Cyclical Longitudinal Ethnography as an innovative design for addressing Sexuality Education in South African rural farm schools. This design was developed as part of an engaged scholarship on HIV prevention in rural farm schools in Soutpansberg North Circuit, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The paper provides an...

Higher education (HE) must equip youth with skills for economic development, security and sustainability, which is central in the SDGs' 2030 Agenda. South Africa (SA) intends to partly achieve Agenda 2030 through its National Development Plan, by improving youth's access to HE. However, SA's HE subtly trains employable graduates, yet the country suffers ascending unemployment. This defeats SA's intentions. Using vygotsky's zone of proximal development, this paper aimed to understand...

Multilingualism has become a ‘buzz’ term in the academic fora in South Africa and the world at large. Research on multilingualism in South Africa has become ubiquitous, however, academic policies have rendered multilingualism a concealed reality. This paper aims to highlight findings of an inquiry into the existence of multilingual students in an academic literacy class. The paper also intends to bring out how multilingual students utilise their language practices in their mission to...

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the lockdown of all activities forced the education systems across the world and particularly in South Africa to change the mode of teaching from face-to-face to online.This rapid shift has brought about many changes in all sectors, especially in the field of education.Universities across South Africa particularly contact institutions, were affected and enforced lockdowns that extremely prevent face-to-face interaction between teachers in the classroom and...

globally, medical students have been exposed to decentralized training in rural settings. The experiences of these students regarding this kind of training have been reported in various settings. However, such students´ experiences have rarely been reported from sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study was to explore fifth-year medical students´ experiences of a Family Medicine Rotation (FMR) at the University of Botswana and their recommendations for improvement.an exploratory...

Malaria resurgence significantly threatens progress made towards malaria elimination in the past years and consequently increases socioeconomic and public health burden, especially in developing countries. This is exacerbated by the lack of intelligent models for predicting, mapping, diagnosing, and detecting malaria to strengthen malaria prevention and control measures. Predicting malaria and understanding risk factors leading to malaria outbreaks can assist policymakers in re-strategizing...

Tanzanian students have been performing very low on the topic of motion in a straight line which consists of kinematics graphs and formulas for several years. Their low performance is attributed to the dominance of teacher-centred teaching methods such as the lecture method which is contrary to what is being advocated in the current competence-based curriculum. This study investigated the impact of YouTube videos as one of the learner-centred strategies that can promote students learning of...

This paper proffers a comprehensive framework that illustrates the integration of education and culture. Many African formal learning institutions have propagated generations of learners that have tripped off their cultural footing in pursuit of Western standards. However, sustainable education is that which is aimed at acculturating an individual. It must aim to preserve, transmit, and develop the societal culture, beginning at the early childhood development (ECD) phase. The study employed...

Background: Individuals with disabilities experience more dental problems and have more unmet dental needs, and face additional challenges accessing dental treatments. It is imperative therefore to carry out a study that would assess the dental treatment needs of this vulnerable population to aid the planning of appropriate oral health programs tailored towards their peculiarities.
 Objective: To determine the dental treatment needs among students with disabilities in Sokoto,...

Globally, inadequate healthcare provider (HCP) proficiency with evidence-based guidelines contributes to millions of newborn, infant, and child deaths each year. HCP guideline proficiency would improve patient outcomes. Conventional (in person) HCP in-service education is limited in 4 ways: reach, scalability, adaptability, and the ability to contextualize. Adaptive e-learning environments (AEE), a subdomain of e-learning, incorporate artificial intelligence technology to create a unique...

Background: Due to their stage of life and the daily stressors they encounter, students are particularly susceptible to both behavioral and psychological issues. Our study was designed with two objectives in mind: (1) to explore the potential mitigating effect of physical activity on the relationship between nomophobia and distress in students; and (2) to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-12). Methods: A...

As the drought research serves potential benefits to the management of its allied sectors, it demands research reasons for climate changes over Eastern Africa. The research paper mainly aims to forecast the drought years using WRF model dataset. For selected meteorological parameters, MBE, RMSE and MAE, have been computed and compared to estimate the correlation with the WRF model with Belg season and the Kirmet season in Ethiopia. The research paper discusses various primary causes for the...

Archeoseismology and historical seismology are powerful tools to study earthquake damage and evaluate its impact to cultural sites. We present results of archeoseismic studies of the Lost Cities located nearby the northern segments of the Dead Sea Fault (DSF) in Syria, in the frame of the EC-Funded APAME Project (Archeo-PAleoseismology for the protection of cultural sites in the Middle East). Field investigations and description of the Lost Cities as archeological sites affected by large...