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The transition of students from high school level to the college level is inherently stressful for students. It could cause psychological, academic and social shock to them. From this perspective, this research was aimed to investigate the level of stress among the College of Education (CoE) students in Eritrea Institute of Technology. Descriptive research was undertaken to assess the students’ level of stress. A randomly drawn participants (N = 123) completed a self-developed questionnaire...
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Through qualitative research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this article explores the deployment of internally displaced teachers. Rather than understanding deployment as a technical matter, the article uses a “real governance” approach to analyse teacher deployment. It reveals how education is organized during displacements and why teachers return to their villages after displacements. The article argues that state actors with weak capacities in service delivery can be able to exert...
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Recently, electronic mobile devices have been widely used for attaining knowledge, asking questions and retrievinginformation. Mobile devices and their features have been in the glare of publicity for educational purposes. TheWhatsApp application instant messaging platform has become the most popular mobile device application regarded asone of the teaching and learning styles that facilitate collaborative learning as students are beaming with ownsmartphones.Nowadays, it is challenging to...
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Teenage pregnancy is a major social problem in Kakamega County in Kenya that tends to have negative ramifications especially on the lives of young girls. Recent studies have documented school children lack the necessary skills to manage their sexual life due to the misconceptions they have about menstrual cycle despite having gone through Kenyan school science curriculum. This can be supported by worldwide reports that teachers can actually be one of the sources of such misconceptions in...
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Purpose: Radiography students are required to integrate theoretical knowledge learned in the classroom to clinical practice in order to improve their clinical skills and decision-making as well as enhance learning. The incorporation of reflective practice is perceived as a vital tool in enhancing students’ understanding of taught concepts. The documentation of events and ideas for later reflection allows for self-discovery and improvement of practice. Objective: To explore and describe...
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Traditionally, tertiary institutions delivered their flexible teaching programs to students with the aid of print based course material and with limited information technology support such as email and electronic discussion lists.However, with recent advances in the digital technologies, institutions are increasingly seeking the potential use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to facilitate their flexible teaching needs.Learning management systems are ICT intervention that...
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This paper explores the importance that potential employees attach to CSR practices of firms and how their perceptions of CSR may translate into their willingness to work for CSR practicing firms. The paper sought to investigate the effect of students’ CSR perception on their perception of the attractiveness of CSR practicing firms as prospective employers and also explore the possible moderating effects of student’s demographic characteristics on the relationship between their...
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The present paper examines stereotyping in relation to physical disability and gender in the South Africa. Cross-sectional data for the present study were gathered using free response items in a large survey (n = 1990) examining the attitudes of people without disability towards different facetsof sexuality and disability. The most prominent stereotypes found in thepresent study were those which characterised PWPD as withdrawn and shy, SuperCrips, or happy, funny, and kind. The findings in...
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During apartheid, the arts in South Africa were mobilised as ‘a weapon of the struggle’ to engage audiences with disavowed issues; the toyi-toyi is an iconic example of embodied activist resistance. However, in 1989 at an ANC in-house seminar on culture, Albie Sachs presented a paper in which he argued that, while this approach to culture had been necessary, it had skewed the imagination and creativity of South Africans, resulting in ‘the multiple ghettos of the apartheid imagination’ (1991:...
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Early relaparotomy is defined as relaparotomy within the first 30 days following surgery. The aim of this study is to explore the indications, outcomes and factors associated with relaparotomy in our pediatric population.We performed a retrospective study of pediatric surgical patients (< 13 yrs.) who underwent relaparotomy at Tikur Anbessa Teaching Hospital between September 1, 2011 and August 31, 2016. All children who had relaparotomy within the first 30 days of the initial surgery were...