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Understanding Satisfaction: The Effect of Black Greek-Letter Organization Membership on African American College Students at a Predominantly White Institution
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Surveying as a profession had many definitions applied to it over the years. Geoinformation Technology also known as Geoinformatics is a product of the marriage between the Geosciences and Information Technology. It is a more recent terminology, which has evolved within the past three decades. Many branches of the Geosciences such as surveying, geodesy, photogrammetry and remote sensing use various types of sensors to capture and measure spatial data, which in turn are computer processed...
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This article questions the potential of Outcomes-based education (OBE) in South Africa to be rational and imaginative, that is, creative. Our contention is that the notions of outcomes seems to be trapped in a technicist orientation of deciding in advance what is good and worthwhile for learners to do in education. We argue that OBE is not a sufficient justification of what education means, thus impeding the very act of creative reconstructions of knowledge.
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'I told them not to love one another!' Gender, Christianity and the role of adult education in the Ugandan response to HIV/AIDS Marc Fiedrich1 (bio) Introduction: Acknowledging The Boundaries Of Adult Education The only vaccine to combat HIV/AIDS is education. (…) Unlike other contagious diseases, AIDS is easy to prevent and preventive education works. (proceedings of workshop, UNESCO 2001) The image of education as an injection drug is a popular and compelling one, particularly in the...
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The effects of living on campus on educational gains were estimated for a sample of African American college students. This study also examined the effects of specific residence hall experiences on African American students' educational gains in college. Controlling for an extensive array of demographic characteristics, institutional characteristics, and academic and nonacademic experiences in college, the results indicated that African American students who lived on campus reported...
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As its title suggests, this article examines policy documents dealing with Higher Education in South Africa, particularly the policies that drove Higher Education transformation in the last few years of the previous century. At the centre of transformation policy is the White Paper for Higher Education Transformation (1997), and it is this document which is critically analysed and interpreted against the back-ground both of its origins, and of its position concerning the foreign language...
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A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of black schools in the 21st century.
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Foreword. Preface. 1. Ariaal-Studying an East African Pastoralist Society. 2. Drought, Development, and Kenya's Pastoralists. 3. Ariaal Identity and Culture. 4. A Pastoral Life: Livestock Production and Human Nutrition. 5. The Clan Settlement Basis of Ariaal Social Organization. 6. Farms, Towns and the Future of the Ariaal. Recommended Reading.