Your search

AbstractA concern with formal and epistemological access to schools can neglect the importance of access to the informal school and the friendships and sense of belonging that this implies. Despite the challenges of ‘voice’ research, listening to what young people have to say about their experiences of, and attitudes towards social inclusion and exclusion at school may help to identify and address exclusionary pressures. This article reports on a study conducted at an inclusive high school...

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, to determine the direct costs incurred by parents as part of the cost-sharing policy to finance secondary school education in Kenya and, second, to assess the views of parents about the impact of the cost-sharing policy. A case study design involving qualitative data was used. Interviews were conducted with parents who serve on the school district committee. Findings revealed that that there has been an increase in school fees at secondary...

Since the 1990s there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of women in parliaments in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the literature finds little evidence that increased women's representation has had significant effects on policy outcomes. Uganda has been a pioneer in increasing the number of women legislators. Legislative outcomes were poor from 1996 to 2006, but several pro-women laws were passed in the 2006–2011 multiparty period. Legislative developments since the reintroduction of...

Following major water development schemes in the 1980s, schistosomiasis has become a serious parasitic disease of children living in the Senegal River Basin. Both urogenital (Schistosoma haematobium) and intestinal (Schistosoma mansoni) schistosomiasis can be highly prevalent in school-aged children, with many individuals infected with both parasites. In order to investigate the transmission and re-infection dynamics of both parasite species, single and mixed infection foci at three villages...

Introduction Worldwide, people with visual impairments often struggle to gain employment. This study attempts to closely evaluate the work experiences of employed individuals with visual impairments living in one of the world's most populous developing nations, Nigeria. Methods The researchers developed a questionnaire that assessed personal and professional experiences among a sample of 172 adults with visual impairments living and working in Nigeria. Statistical analysis procedures...

Introduction This study presents the perceptions of employed individuals with visual impairments living in one of the world's most populous developing nations, Nigeria. Methods The researchers developed a questionnaire that assessed personal and professional experiences among a sample of 172 adults with visual impairments living and working in Nigeria. Qualitative analyses of all the participants’ responses to open-ended questions on the questionnaire were performed; as well as an analysis...

From the onset, blogs served as personal social networking tools. More recently, blogs have facilitated the formation of online social networked communities and have thus expanded to more extensive uses in education. This paper explore the use of blogs to foster e-learning communities in empowering and supporting Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) students, who were learning to teach Economics education in open distance learning (ODL) environments. A “blog” for Economics education...

iv Abbreviations v CONTENT OF THE STUDY CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND PROBLEM ORIENTATION 1.1 BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE 1.1.1 MOTIVATION OF STUDY 1 1.1.2 BACKGROUND 1 1.1.3 AIM OF THE STUDY 2 1. 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 2 1. 1.5 RATIONALE 3 1. 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 1.3 DEFINITION OF TERMS 5 1.4 CHAPTER DIVISIONS OF THE STUDY 1.4.1CHAPTER

The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of inter-relationship between family type and academic achievement of students. A Correlational survey research was adopted for the study with a total of 300 respondents. Analysis of the data indicated that significant relationship exists between academic achievement, family type and students’ academic motivation (r=0.26: P<0.005). Also, a significant relationship existed in the overall academic achievement of students from monogamous...

The motive of any library is to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate information to their particular users. The information that is made available to users especially in school libraries is usually presented in form of printed text, graphics, sound, animation or still pictures etc.  This presentation can be enhanced by the use of appropriate Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It has made it possible to handle information in a variety of forms.  Information conveyed by...

The study examined socio-economic characteristics of pastoralists, investigated perceived effects of climate change on grazing land, herd's performance and changes in livelihood of the pastoralists.Through a multi-stage sampling technique, 140 pastoralists were randomly selected.Data were collected using interview scheduled and analyzed by percentages, frequency, tables and Chi square statistical tools.The result of the study showed that respondents were with an average age of 49.7...

The study investigated the effects of group guidance and counselling techniques on students’ vocational maturity. The purpose of the study was to determine whether the Group Career Guidance (GCG) and Group Career Counselling (GCC) techniques will enhance the vocational maturity of secondary school students. To achieve this objective, quasi experimental of pre-test, post-test design was employed. 120 students were selected from senior secondary school class two (SSS 2) through purposive...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of the verbal language (English) on children with Hearing impairments in their performance in mathematics. The study emerged from observation of practice, personal experiences and discussion with fellow teachers. Children under study were drawn from Bulawayo the second largest city and Gweru the third biggest city of Zimbabwe. Questionnaires were completed by a sample of 20 grade six teachers who took part in the study. The teachers...

This article explores the confluence of water crisis and social-political power in the 1860s in Algeria. An unprecedented series of environmental events – ongoing drought, locust invasion, the outbreak of epidemic disease – conspired with the privations of three decades of colonial rule to kill around 800,000 people between 1865 and 1870. This crisis was the impetus for a reconfiguration of the practice and discourse of water control and hygiene into a unique architecture of power relations....

Abstract One of the ways in which the twentieth century saw a ‘democratic turn’ was that the colonized countries of Africa and Asia struggled for independence, and one of the narratives of independence concerns the place of classics in the education of colonized West Africa. The missionaries who helped to spearhead colonialism in the early nineteenth century perceived the classical languages as a sine qua non for a minister of religion, and selected converts were thoroughly trained in Greek...