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This study explores factors influencing the digital divide in four schools in Cape Town, South Africa. Three of the schools are for disadvantaged learners whereas the fourth was previously for whites only. All the schools use ICT in their curriculum delivery and thereby support the emphasis of provincial educational authorities on ICT access for all learners and teachers. Seventh-grade learners (N = 290) as well as their class teachers and principals participated in the study which focused...

Using a qualitative framework, researchers explored urban African American male students’ perceptions of their school counselors and the ways to improve school counseling services. While participants reported positive feelings toward their school counselors, they identified specific services school counselors can offer them to optimize academic and personal/social performance. The authors discuss the findings’ implications on urban school counseling service delivery.

The purpose of this study is to provide an insight into the importance of television soap opera in the life of Yemeni university students. It examined their exposure to soap opera, their opinions toward either Satellite channels or television soap opera and the consequence effects of these channels and soap opera. The study concluded that exposure to either satellite channels or television soap opera mainly occurred on irregular basis. The primary motives for Yemeni students behind...

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Traffic crashes kill 1.2 million people annually, and the number is growing fast, particularly in developing countries. Although child road-safety education is widely considered important, few programmes have resulted in demonstrated improvements in safety. We review road-safety education in Ethiopia and conclude that it is often locally inappropriate and impractical. Such programmes are frequently based on dominant but ineffective educational models imported from other contexts. Drawing on...

Teachers are the principal players and actors who make inclusion happen and succeed in any country. Can there be an effective inclusive education practice in Ghana without positive teacher dispositions? Teacher characteristics were examined for their relationship with attitude towards inclusive education in regular schools. With a sample of one hundred and thirty-two (132) professional teachers from 16 Basic schools located in the Cape Coast Metropolis, teacher characteristics such as...

Information Literacy is a critical input in today’s learning environment and indeed for lifelong learning. Information literacy could be contingent upon an intrinsic element such as self-efficacy belief. Thus, this study investigates the relationship between perceived self-efficacy and information literacy among library and information science (LIS) undergraduates in Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu – Ode Nigeria (TASUED). Ex-post facto research design was adopted. Using total...

A la recherche d’un meilleur mécanisme de mise en oeuvre des curricula d’Education civique et morale (ECM), cette étude entreprend un diagnostic des pratiques éducatives passées ou en usage, en même temps qu’elle porte une réflexion attentive sur le système d’enseignement et les principes de la politique éducative au Togo. Montrant que la contextualisation et d’autres soubassements sont nécessaires à l’adaptation du contenu de l’Enseignement, l’étude propose des paramètres de refondation et...

This study attempted to determine whether self-esteem, perceived control and communal relationship strength would predict emotional distress in Nigerian university students. 148 students from a Christian university and 158 students from a Secular university responded to measures of the variables listed above. It was hypothesized that: (i) Students from the Christian university would show higher levels of self-esteem, perceived control and communal relationship strength and lower levels of...

The study sampled 200 early adolescents (120 males and 80 females) using a developed and tested model that provided a causal explanation on Five-Factor Model of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to expression, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) and gender. Data collection was done through the use of two valid and reliable instruments (NEO Five-Factor Inventory=0.83; Social Reactivity Scale=0.72). The data were analyzed using multiple regression and path analysis in order to...

The main focus of this study was to find out the relative effect of Field Dependent and Field Independent learning styles and a combination of the two on academic performance of undergraduate students of the University of Cape Coast. The quasi-experimental design was employed for the study.A total of 77 subjects completed a questionnaire designed by the researchers before they received treatment on techniques of the 3 learning styles in a pre and post-test design.The formulated hypotheses...

General observations indicate that ESL learners in Nigeria tend to manifest fear and anxiety in grammar classes, which could influence their performance negatively or positively. This study examines empirically some of the reasons for some ESL learners’ apprehension of grammar classes. The data for the study were obtained from 268 secondary school students and 17 English language teachers who responded to a questionnaire developed to provide answers to the following questions: Are ESL...

Abstract This paper argues that poverty assessments that use standard money‐metric indicators of poverty overlook the welfare of communities highly vulnerable to weather‐related extremes, and that an assessment of vulnerability to climate change should be an integral part of poverty assessment. Using Ghana as a case study, this paper evaluates to what extent the standard money‐metric measures of poverty represent the welfare of those households vulnerable to weather‐related extremes. In...

In Botswana secondary schools, a positive climate is more of an ideal than a reality. It is the task of stakeholders particularly the headteacher's to create and sustain a conducive learning environment to improve pupils' academic and behaviour standards. To a large extent, the headteacher, as an individual occupying the highest official position in the school, determines how the school is run. His/her expectations, values, beliefs, relationships with teachers and the examples he/she...

This thesis critically examines and compares the training of the (AIC) prophets and prophetesses with the Akan traditional priests and priestesses. There have been constant criticisms among Ghanaians, both Christians and non-christians about the modus oparandi and training of the AIC prophets and prophetesses. The abuses in activities of some AIC prophets and prophetesses in Ghana have called for a study of the kind of training the prophets and prophetesses go through. Besides examining...