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The study investigated the level of attitudes towards the education of students with learning disabilities among teachers in regular education classrooms. It also examined the influence of four teachers’ demographic factors on their attitudes towards education of students with learning disabilities in regular classrooms Ibadan, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study whilst the multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted to select the study sample. A total of 125...

Orientation: Research has been conducted regarding work readiness in a various contexts. However, there are deficiencies in studies that have focused on the precursors of work readiness in an African context.Research purpose: The primary objective of this study was to determine the impact of career self-efficacy (CSE), career exploration (CE) and self-perceived employability (SPE) on work readiness (WR) of students in the South African context, particularly in the Gauteng Province.Motivation...

The South African school education landscape is distinctly uneven as it relates to school financing. The state’s attempt at differentiated funding via the quintile system is vaunted as an initiative to address the needs of poor schools. It parades as a commitment to a redress agenda. Since implementation, the socioeconomic demography has changed significantly for many schools. Some have experienced an exodus of fee-paying learners and an increase in poor learners residing in newly...

The implementation of inclusive education in South African schools has resulted in more demands being placed on them to make provision for the inclusion of learners with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms. This has brought about substantial changes regarding school financing in order to cater for a diverse learner population. This generic qualitative study conducted through interviews with 9 secondary school principals from formerly disadvantaged and advantaged schools, as...

The free senior high school policy is one of best social and economic intervention policies that openly affect both parents and their wards in senior high school.This realisation is reached on the backdrop of the policy's role in redeeming parents from their economic and financial burden.This study therefore looks at the effect of introducing the free senior high school policy on the economic and social lives of parents and students respectively.A correlational cross-sectional descriptive...

In English Language Teaching, the complexity of competencies and skills required for maximum achievement calls for a highly structured training programme which caters for a Continuing Professional Development(CPD) of EFL teachers. Hence, it has become more important than ever to involve teachers in the decision making and designing of their CPD programmes. The present paper, then investigates how effective is continuing teacher training to teacher professional development in Algeria. In an...

The paper explores the use of nominal subordinate clause as a syntactic complexity measure in some examination scripts of the National University of Lesotho (NUL) fourth year students. The study is based on the employment of the interpretivist paradigm as well as descriptive and case study designs. Data was collected from the students’ essays in the (2016/2017) examination papers and analysed qualitatively, following the Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG) and the Cognitive Grammar...

ABSTRACT Background Mental disorders are a major source of disability and receive little attention in developing countries in general and particularly in Cameroon. Students are at a higher risk of developing mental disorders. The aim of this study was to assess students’ mental help seeking preferences and the barriers to mental health seeking. Methods We conducted a cross sectional study. Participants were selected using a multistage sampling method. A self-administered questionnaire was...

In this article I report on the findings of an empirical study conducted to show the merits of integrating equitable learning by members of the South African School Governing bodies (SGBs) in managing the physical and financial resources. Within the interpretivist paradigm and utilising a qualitative descriptive phenomenological design, the data generation followed the use of an unstructured questionnaire administered to a sample of 30 participants purposefully sampled. Adopting a social...

Efficient and equitable use of financial resources has been one of the education policy objectives to achieve quality in education. Subsequently, the achievement of efficient and equitable use of financial resources in schools depends on the principals’ understanding of their role in managing financial resources. However, evidence spanning developing countries suggests the existence of principals’ various inadequacies and inefficiencies in this regard. To respond to this, the Kingdom of...

Drawing on the quintile system of categorising schools, South African public schools are bifurcated into no-fee and fee paying schools. Emerging research has shown that school principals in both categories of schools encounter several challenges with regard to school funding. In this article, we employ contingency leadership theory to examine how school principals respond to the school funding challenges they encounter. An interpretive, qualitative case study drawing on semi-structured...

was prompted by claims of inappropriate staff development interventions in URAand the increasing need for SDL among staff in the organisation. The studyfollowed a cross-sectional explanatory design. The respondents were 85 comprisingtactical and operational line managers, selected using proportionate stratifiedrandom sampling techniques. Questionnaires were used for data collection. Theresults from analysis revealed that the two sub-variables of a learning organisation(leadership & culture)...

This study examined factors that adversely affect girl-child education among the Kambari. Marx Weber’s social action theory, patriarchy and sex role theories provided the theoretical framework. Empirical data were drawn from a household survey among 1,598 respondents, comprising a pair of adult males (385) and their sons (385) and adult females (414) and their daughters (414). A multi-staged sampling technic was employed to select sample units. Two structured questionnaires were employed for...

Despite the increasing concerns about the importance of assessment, the studies that directly address the assessment beliefs and practices among Libyan secondary school English language teachers are scarce. The present study aimed to investigate the Libyan teachers’ classroom-based assessment beliefs and practices and the relationship between them. For this purpose, a total of 90 Libyan English teachers participated in a survey by responding to a questionnaire which explored their beliefs...

The objective of the study is to examine the extent to which public awareness on County bursary fund allocation has influenced the retention of needy students in secondary school. The study employed survey design in the collection of data. A study sample of 133 respondents was engaged in from a total population of 6,093 obtained from a stratified random sampling technique. The questionnaire was the method of data collection used to gather the Primary data. The questionnaires were coded and...

Abstract Background : Dysmenorrhea is reported to be among the most common gynecological disorders worldwide. The current study aimed to determine the prevalence and management practices for dysmenorrhea among adolescent school girls in Nigeria. The study also aimed to determine the predictors for choosing a management option for dysmenorrhea. Methods : The study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted in five conveniently selected secondary schools (high schools) in Enugu State....

Online Instructional Experiences, the Challenges of Students and Tutors of Some Selected Colleges of Education in Ghana 1. IntroductionColleges of education in Ghana are the various tertiary institutions that used to offer Diploma in Education programmes leading to the award of Diploma in Basic Education Certificate in Ghana.Recently the institutions have been accredited to peruse various courses of study that would lead to the award of Bachelor of Education Degrees in the country.E-learning...

Art, being skill oriented may be perceived by many as mere self-exercise meant for a few talented ones; its strength in engendering skills for self-sustenance, practicality in eradication of poverty, and activation of economic sustainability and socio-political development of the society in general can be extraordinary; thus its inclusion in the school curriculum as a structured, formal subject.However, since the art teacher plays a prominent role in building desirable human capital required...

This work appraises the extent of toxic trace metals and seasonal pollution degree in Damietta branch sediments of the River Nile of Egypt. The toxic trace metals Fe, Mn, Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn were analysed in sediments from six sites during the summer and winter seasons. The metal concentrations and organic matter were determined using inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometry and loss-on-ignition, respectively. Multivariate statistical methods were used in order to allocate the...

2020년 코로나로 인해 테크놀러지를 사용하는 교육(온라인교육 포함)이 그 가치를 확실히 인정받았다. 교사 위주였던예전 교습 방법이 완전히 바뀌어졌다. 주어진 교과 과정을 온라인으로 예습하고 클라스에서는 토론을 하는 “flipped 학습”이 자리를 잡아가고있다. 아프리카에서는 온라인 클라스는 현지인들에게는 상상이 되지 않는 옵션이다. 하지만 이제 기술을 통한 교육 가치가 인정받기 시작했다. 먼 학교를 가야하는 학생들을 위해 작은 분교/정보 센타가 많이 세워져야한다. 한꺼번에 모이지 못하고, 정해진 소수의 팀이 와서 거리를 두고 컴퓨터를 통해 학습을 하고, 그후에 다음 팀이 와서 학습한다. 몇대의 컴퓨터를 공유하면서 교사가 없는 상황에서도 각자 인트라넷 전자 도서관을 통해서 학습을한다. 학생들은 생전 처음 경험하는 힉습방법이지만, 오히려 자유롭게 스스로 주도하여 배우는 것을 경험한다. 학생들뿐 아니라, 교사 훈련도 되며 커뮤니티의 정보 센타가 되어 공동체가 힘을 얻을 것이다....