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In spite of numerous HIV/AIDS‐prevention education efforts, the HIV infection rates in sub‐Saharan Africa remain high. Exploring and understanding the reasons behind these infection rates is imperative in a bid to offer life skills and moral education that address the root causes of the pandemic. In a recent study concerning effective HIV/AIDS‐prevention education, conducted in Tanzania and Kenya among teacher trainees and their tutors, the notion of mila potofu (defined by educators as...

It seems fair to argue that opinions from Nigeria’s government and its policy makers, and the management of various Nigerian higher institutions of learning concerning the mandatory introduction of entrepreneurship education in all disciplines so far have lacked a common framework. This lack of framework is responsible for the unending debates as to what way should the old curriculum be change to integrate entrepreneurship education? What should constitute the scheme of the entrepreneurship...

Burundi, like the rest of the Great Lakes region, has been shaken by widespread inter‐communal divisions and violent conflict. It is commonly believed that the troubled history of Burundian society has been due to the lack of a consistent moral dimension in school curricula. It is this obvious gap that the Catholic Church, through its Moral Education Programme initiated in 2005, sought to address. The new curriculum, implemented gradually in Burundian schools, takes inspiration from...

Research and pedagogy in the field of morality and moral education has long been dominated by philosophical and psychological disciplines. Although sociological studies and theorising in the field have not been absent, it has been limited and non‐systematic. Drawing on a study that investigated the lived morality of a group of young South Africans growing up in the aftermath of Apartheid and in the townships of Cape Town, this paper surveys the historical contribution made by sociologists to...

The term ‘moral’ has had a chequered history in sub‐Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism in Africa and the history of Apartheid oppression in South Africa. When Apartheid’s racis...

This study looked at the attitudes of regular and special education teachers towards school integration of children with special educational needs in Tanzanian primary schools. Specifically, the study aimed at finding out if length of service and teaching experience affected teachers’ attitudes. In addition, the study examined the differences in teachers’ attitudes when different disabilities are involved. A total of 288 respondents were involved in this study. The results showed that most...

One of the priorities of societies emerging from identity‐based conflict is to signal a new society, with new values that stand in stark contrast with the old. Education policy becomes a critical arena for highlighting these political values when schools, particularly teachers, are identified as key agents of social change. However, the legacy of the conflict, especially with regard to teacher identities shaped during conflict, is seldom taken into account. This paper argues that unless...

AIRS thermal infrared radiance data are used with a fast infrared scattering radiative transfer model to physically retrieve the dust column amount and dust height over both ocean and land. The retrieved optical depths are compared against those retrieved using visible and ultraviolet instruments on the A‐Train, while dust layer heights are evaluated against lidar data. The synergistic use of AIRS data is explored by using dust layer heights constrained by CALIPSO retrievals and coarse mode...

Although many forces influence how the police operate and how the public views them, cross-national studies on attitudes of the police are rare; therefore, this exploratory study, which examined the views of trust in police and police civility among a convenience sample of 1,425 students from five universities in four different nations, was conducted. U.S. respondents had the highest views of trust in police and police civility, whereas Bangladeshi and Nigerian college students had the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of climate change likely to be manifested in the MENA region using statistical tools as well as outputs from physics‐based General Circulation Models (GCMs).

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection caused by HIV-1 and HIV-2 has reached pandemic proportion with sub Saharan Africa having the highest incidence and prevalence. With the advent of anti-retroviral drugs (ARV), the morbidity and mortality of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) has improved. With long term therapy with ARVs however, problems arise due to poor adherence. The concept of “salvage therapy” was conceived subsequent to experiencing multiple treatment failures...

Malignant lesions occurring in the orofacial region are of great concern because of the associated high mortality occasioned by late presentation for treatment. This article aimed to determine the incidence and histopathologic patterns of childhood malignant tumours in various orofacial sites in a Nigerian population. A 19-year retrospective review of records and histopathology slides of orofacial malignant lesions in children aged 0 to 14 years was carried out in the Departments of Oral...

Background: Maternal mortality remains a major public health challenge, not only at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, but in the developing world in general. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess trends in maternal mortality in a tertiary health facility, the maternal mortality ratio, the impact of sociodemographic factors in the deaths, and common medical and social causes of these deaths at the hospital. Methodology: This was a retrospective review of obstetric...

The Impact of (V) diagram and experiment demonstration strategies on practical performance for the 8th grade students and their acquisition of cognitive skills which implemented in the international (TIMSS) tests in Gaza Strip. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of (V) diagram and demonstration strategies on practical performance and (TIMSS) skills. The experimental approach with three groups was undertaken with (134) students in UNRWA schools; the first experimental...

Constructivism reasserts the importance of ‘meaning making’ in the sense that it assists students to internalise, reshape or transform new information .From this teaching perspective, students should be able to construct knowledge for themselves through goal- orientated activity. In other words, they need to engage with content in such a manner that it becomes meaningful and useful to them within their own context. Furthermore, it is only when students can apply what they have learned, that...

The present study analysed data from 501 Yemeni university students to examine their knowledge about HIV and their attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS.The findings indicate that participants had several serious misunderstandings about HIV/AIDS and held negative attitudes toward people living with HIV/ AIDS.Although female students were less knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS than were male students, they held more positive attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS.An overwhelming number of students...

Analysis in this policy note indicates a rapid deterioration in employment opportunities for young individuals transitioning from school to work in Egypt. Despite substantial improvements in labor market outcomes in recent years (in raising employment and participation and in lowering unemployment), unemployment rates in Egypt remain exceedingly high among youth entering the labor market for the first time. A slow school-to-work transition remains the main reason behind high unemployment...