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Growing out of the belief that children need to acquire tools that eAll help them understand and interact with people from different cultures, a study examined the effect of a global education unit about Africa on the images of Africa held by sixth grade students, specifically investigating whether such instruction uld reduce existing stereotypes and enhance children's general knowledge of Africa. Subjects were 51 fifthand sixth-grade students at two elementary schools .n southern...
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(1991). African-American Males in Middle School: One School's Efforts at Empowerment. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 4-8.
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Sudan is one of the few countries where famine still persists. Why? What are the determinants of famine in Sudan? What is the role of drought, especially in the context of economic policy failure and war? Who is affected by famine? What needs to be done to mitigate and prevent famine? These are some of the questions addressed in Drought and Famine Relationships in Sudan: Policy Implications, Research Report 88, by Tesfaye Teklu, Joachim von Braun, and Elsayed Zaki. The research is...
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Senior high school children completed a self-administered questionnaire on sexual activity, knowledge of family planning methods, condoms and use of condoms. The study highlighted some useful and interesting information though its value is limited by a poor response rate.
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An AIDS educator in Natal recently commented: "Things are looking really serious here. We are picking up 100 new HIV cases a week and have an estimated 150,000-300,000 people infected with the virus in Natal alone. This figure is currently doubling around every 6-9 months." In an attempt to address this problem, the AIDS Training, Information and Counselling Center (ATICC) in Durban has developed a 7-day "train the trainer" workshop and manual. The ATICC course helps participants to return...
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The study involved children aged 7–14 in two schools, Command Children School, Onike (private) and Fazil-I-Omar Primary School, Iwaya (public). The nutritional status of the children showed that 48% in Command Children School and 74% in Fazil-I-Omar were malnourished. The prevalence of anaemia for all the children was 26% and there was no iron deficiency. Socio-economic factors played a great role in this state of malnutrition. Though all the children ate three square meals, family type and...
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Harry Edwards delivered the NACADA Journal symposium lecture at the 1990 NACADA National Conference. He was invited by the Journal's editors to expand the ideas he presented into an article to give the entire membership an opportunity to examine these ideas. We have also included responses from several professionals who are actively involved in exploring the issues that Edwards deals with. The editors welcome further responses to this article. The character and dynamics of developments at...
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Primary school expansion in African countries during the independence period has exacerbated a dilemma confronting educators and policy-makers since colonial times: should the purpose of primary schooling be to educate an elite for secondary schools, or should it be, instead, to prepare students for self-employment? Findings are reported from a series of studies of primary schooling conducted in Burundi and Kenya since 1985. Both countries employ selective examinations for admission to...
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This article describes two programmes for training young people for skilled employment or self-employment. Both programmes have target groups among the disadvantaged: the Relevant Training workshops of Nigeria train young people who have little or no education beyond the primary level, and SERVOL in Trinidad accepts drop-outs from society who often have anti-social attitudes and need to be encouraged to develop a positive attitude to work. The programmes concentrate more on practical skills...
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(1991). Education for subordination: African education in colonial Kenya. History of Education: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 261-273.
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(1991). Learning the hard way: Allenby in Egypt and Palestine, 1917–19. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 363-387.
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Representatives from the Ministry of Health, the University of Nairobi and the Kenya Medical Association arranged a workshop in Nairobi in September, 1987 to ensure that policy makers, civil servants, academics and senior members of the medical profession would feel fully informed about the purpose and nature of distance learning. A further meeting was arranged for the supervisors and tutors who would be involved in the pilot project which was designed to validate the usefulness of distance...