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Thesis in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education in the Faculty of Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Supervisor: Professor Rajendra Chetty Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Janet Condy November 2013
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Since the 1940s, the concept of community participation has framed, mobilized, and legitimated national development agendas in the Singida Region of rural central Tanzania. Based on 19 months of ethnographic and archival research, this study examines the forms of community participation elicited through state and international development initiatives aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Building on theorizations of “trusteeship” as an organizing principle of development, this...
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INTRODUCTION The government of the Republic of Zambia embarked on major reforms of the Technical and Vocational Education, and Training (TVET) to make it more responsive to the current training demands in the economy in the 1990’s. In August 1994, the Minister of Science, Technology and Vocational Training appointed a widely representative national Task Force to review Government policy on technical education and vocational training and to recommend changes that would be necessary for the...
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This article reports selected findings from a larger qualitative study which explored how curriculum coordinators and school management teams managed teachers’ continuing professional development for curriculum reform implementation. Respondents were purposively sampled from education area offices and secondary schools in the North-West Province in South Africa. Data were collected through interviews and document analysis and analysis thereof followed Tesch’s open coding method. Findings...
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The paper looks at the place of the University of Botswana within the North-South-South Higher Education Programme. In particular it assesses the benefits that have accrued to the university as well as what the university stands to benefit in future by virtue of being a member in the programme. Within the programme, UB is a partner in a music project titled The Role of Music in Strengthening Cultural Identity in Southern Africa that aims to promote music education among the six partner...
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Abstract Tanzania, like many other African countries, has experienced a rapid expansion of its secondary education sector. This has resulted in large numbers of secondary school graduates struggling to build a future through continuing education or finding employment.Footnote 1 Students are faced with the difficult task of assessing their opportunities in the face of various challenges and making plans to build a better life. The presented research uses empathy-based stories to identify...
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AbstractA rapidly increasing proportion of youth in developing countries pursue their transition to adulthood through post-compulsory education. Studies on the role of formal education in youth transitions tend to focus on the structural constraints to successful transitions and less attention is given to the voices and reflections of young people, particularly in-school youth. Qualitative data gathered among 100 female students enrolled in the second year of lower secondary school depict...
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Schools, institutions to educate and develop citizens, are often targeted during periods of violent/armed conflict in Africa to be used as political and on occasion literal battlefields. What is occurring in eastern Chad is a case in point. Not only were educational institutions severely negatively affected during Chad's recent conflict period (2005 - 2010), but schools still struggle to deliver positive learning outcomes long after the signing of the peace agreement. Declining pass rates,...
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The main purpose of this study was to advance or extend Beck’s individualized individual theory using cultural practices and women in Nigerian higher education as an x-ray. This study provided an elaborate introduction and background to cultural practices in Nigeria. Secondly, identified and discussed the main types or forms of cultural practices. Thirdly, identified the most dominant and pervasive cultural practices on the academic performance of married women students in Nigerian higher...
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Teenage pregnancy in South African schools poses a serious management and leadership challenge. It calls for school management teams (SMTs) to acquire critical skills to manage teenage pregnancy within the requirements of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996. Little, if any, research has been conducted on learner pregnancy as a hurdle toward the achievement of millennium development goals (MDGs) and EFA goals. Drawing on...
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In this article, we analyse the Lesotho junior secondary geography curriculum document with the purpose of exploring the congruence between geography and environmental education. The study is based on a curriculum reform process introduced by the Lesotho Environmental Education Support Project (LEESP) in 2001. we draw theoretical insights from Basil Bernstein's concepts of classification and framing to analyse environmental knowledge integration and structure of pedagogy as expressed in the...
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ABSTRACT Discourses of the punishing state that circulated in Eritrea at a time when the government had become increasingly coercive were articulated especially clearly in debates over teacher transfers. Teachers imagined the state on the basis of their intimate encounters with its bureaucrats, who were thought of as capable of punishing, manipulating, or being manipulated. In a country once noted for the effervescent, revolutionary celebration of the state's capacity to defend and develop...
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It is predicted that the effects of climate change, especially extreme floods and droughts, will significantly affect the world's fragile and least developed countries. Yemen, with its struggling economy and various levels of fagility and conflict, faces daunting development challenges. Challenged with diminishing water resources, increasing reliance on agriculture half of which is rain-fed and frequent floods and droughts, Yemenis face the daunting task of coping with the potentially...
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Tremendous advances in computer technologyand the evolution of the Internet have led to new approaches in learning and training which are summarized under the term e-Learning.This research studied the effects of e-learning system on teacher orientation programs conducted by Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), which is a National Curriculum Development and Research Centre, offers online teacher orientation courses using Elimika learning management system.The objectives of this study were to...