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This chapter examines the contributions of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) towards empowerment and poverty reduction amongst women in Africa. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the need for countries of the world to ensure that poverty in all its forms is ended everywhere. SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 especially connect to the focus of this chapter. Despite the implementation of various programmes by African governments towards SDGs attainment, a substantial number of...

This chapter examines climate change’s impact on Africa and offers adaptable solutions for reducing and coping with those effects. Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are causing droughts and desertification, which in turn are leading to food shortages and water scarcity. With frequent extreme weather events destroying homes, infrastructure, and crops, rain-fed agriculture suffers terrible consequences. This puts people at risk of displacement and increases the likelihood of...

The study examined how different methods of teaching accounting influence the academic performance of university students in Nigeria. The teaching methods under examination were lecture method, group discussion method, and participatory method. The study used a descriptive survey design and selected a sample of 135 students from two Nigerian universities using Taro Yamane's formula. Data was collected through the use of a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The inferential analysis was...

African Americans with MCI may be at increased risk for dementia compared to Caucasians. The effect of race on the efficacy of cognitive training in MCI is unclear.We used data from a two-site, 78-week randomized trial of MCI comparing intensive, home-based, computerized training with Web-based cognitive games or Web-based crossword puzzles to examine the effect of race on outcomes. The study outcomes were changes from baseline in cognitive and functional scales as well as MRI-measured...

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of constituency bursary provision timing on school efficiency of secondary schools in Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya.The study used a descriptive survey research design.The study was used the Human Capital Theory as advanced by Becker and the socialist economics of education theory as propounded by Louis Blanc while looking at family background as timing for awarding bursary.The target population was 77,589 persons, that is, 77,322 students, 257...

Climate change has grown more apparent in recent years with people becoming more aware of its potentially disastrous consequences.Flooding is one of the many consequences of a changing climate in Kenya known to cause immense devastation resulting in the loss of lives and property.This paper discusses the risk of flooding in Kenya as one of the many outcomes of climate change in the face of urgency to adapt Kenya's built environment to flooding which is likely to continue to prevail in the...

Drug and substance use and abuse among secondary school students in North-Eastern Nigeria is a growing concern among stakeholders in the education sector, especially in the last decade. This menace has been linked to many negative consequences, including physical, psychological, and academic problems. While some studies have shown that the menace is low, others have shown that it is high and associated with various psycho-social and academic impacts. All the studies, however, agree on the...

The Kenyan Constitution is an all pervasive Constitution and schools are required to abide by it. In doing so, schools are required to go an extra mile to accommodate the religious beliefs of the minorities in schools without clothing everyone with the attributes of the majority in the school. This paper is a commentary on a recent decision by the Court of Appeal in Phillip Okoth vs Board of Management St Annes Primary School Ahero. The paper uses the decision to show that Courts and judges...

South Africa struggles with low secondary school completion rates and this has a negative effect on poverty and inequality. In this study, we examine the relationship between internal migration (international migrants were excluded) and non-migrant educational outcomes (secondary school enrolment and completion rates) in South Africa between 1996 and 2011. We use census data for the years 1996, 2001 and 2011 (at the district and municipal levels) in several linear probability regression...

Using the example of Zimbabwe, this chapter shows how the model of culturally relevant school health promotion can be used to evaluate school health policies in support of equitable programming for Black students. Because currently used frameworks address the role of oppression only sparingly, culturally relevant school health promotion offers a critical theory-based alternative that enhances the methodological rigor of school health policy evaluation. Moreover, unlike a traditional HPS...

ormative use of authentic assessment is regarded as a key aspect of competence acquisition among undergraduate science students. The study employed a pragmatism research paradigm with the mixed-method research approach. The research design used was an explanatory sequential research design. The target population for the study was 650 third-year undergraduate science students from the two Higher Education Institutions. The sample for the study was 231 undergraduate science students who were...

Dysmenorrhea is an often incapacitating condition that is characterized by painful menstruation and general body malaise. In Zimbabwe, this condition is understudied, and its associated risk factors are poorly understood.To investigate the prevalence and associated risk factors of dysmenorrhea among female students at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe.This is a cross-sectional study that employed simple random sampling technique to obtain data from 382 students using pretested and...

Continuous professional development (CPD) is necessary for every healthcare professional, but it is even more important in developing countries. In addition to the traditional need for CPD to keep improving the quality of service delivery, in developing countries, some health professionals work in remote areas where they lack the experience of senior colleagues. In this regard, online CPD is among the strategies that can improve the quality of health care services delivery. Thus, this study...

The Chyulu rangelands are vital socio-ecological production landscape (SEPL) that provide distinct ecosystem goods and services which sustain socio-economic development and biodiversity. The landscape has gazetted protected areas: Chyulu, Amboseli and Tsavo National Parks, Chyulu Forest Reserve, and community group ranches habitats for diverse biodiversity. The rangeland is a grazing reserve for endemic wildlife and livestock, the main sources of livelihoods for indigenous communities....

Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) influences educational outcomes such as test scores, students' attitudes, and self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is a significant predictor of the academic performance of students and therefore it is an important construct for measuring attainment of learning objectives. This paper discusses how inquiry-based learning in Chemistry practical lessons enhances students' self-efficacy in Chemistry. A total of 21 Chemistry teachers and 357 Form three Chemistry students were...

Rural and urban schools have two different contexts with unique socioeconomic opportunities which may, as a matter of fact, enhance or dis-enhance learning opportunities. This is due to the belief that urban schools perform much better than rural schools due to favorable learning prospects they enjoy. This article thus explores the influence of the school’s socioeconomic status on Grade 1 learners’ performance in Zambezi Region, Namibia. The study is qualitative in approach and is a case...

South Africa has a progressive human settlements policy that makes provision for the in-situ upgrading of informal settlements, aimed towards the holistic integration of informal settlements into the urban and socio-economic fabric of cities. However, the rising number of informal settlements and the dissatisfaction amongst informal settlement dwellers indicate a disjunction between these policies and the implementation thereof. It is argued that upgrading initiatives should be the result of...

This study investigated the attitudes of university students toward political participation, as well as four other selected democratic values – freedom and liberty, human rights/human rights protest, corruption resistance, and separation of powers in Nigeria. A descriptive survey design, with a tool entitled ‘Attitude towards Democratic Values Questionnaire (ADVQ)’, was used to collect data from randomly selected 250 undergraduate students (male = 120; female = 130) from a university in...