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The purpose of this study was to examine the role of same- and other-group identification in musical preference decision-making. Subjects were African-American (n = 189) and white (n = 280) music students in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Each subject responded along a 9-point Likert scale to 10 instrumental music excerpts, five performed by African-American jazz artists and five performed by white jazz artists. Examples were presented according to one of three conditions: (1) music only, (2) music...

Australia and South Africa are dominated by extensive agriculture, both countries being predominantly arid and exposed to a highly variable climate. Limiting land degradation, maintaining the financial viability of farms and improving the risk-management skills of farmers are common problems which government and industry in both countries are attempting to address. Both countries are currently refining their approaches to drought management, and have been making substantial use of science in...

South Africa is undergoing dynamic changes affecting all aspects of life, and legacies of the previous regime have a bearing on these changes. Music educators informal institutions face many challenges. Music-making in the informal sector is extensive, ongoing and relevant. Today, one of the greatest challenges for music educators in the formal sector is to realise the importance and value of developing a philosophy and process of music education that emanates and evolves from musics and musical practices existing in southern Africa.

An assessment of the food and nutrient intake of 81 male and 35 female University students was conducted using structured questionnaires and 24-hr. diet recall procedures. The contribution of Street Foods (SF) to their nutrients intakes was also assessed. The major dietary sources of nutrients for both groups were Cereals, Roots and Tubers and Legumes. Energy intake by males (9.81 MJ or 83.9% RDA) was significantly (p < 0.05) higher than intake (8.59 MJ or 81.8% RDA) by female subjects....

Education for All (EFA) entails a commitment on the part of the state to provide ‘Basic Education’ to all its citizens. Such education is intended to lead to the acquisition/possession of the knowledge, skills and competencies that will enable individuals to accomplish those transactions in which they normally wish or need to engage. Developing counries like Zimbabwe face the problems of increasing populations, coupled with rising costs of educational provision, against a background of...

This study investigates the in-service training needs of the primary school generalist teacher in Botswana. The findings established that singing is a major cross-curricular activity in schools. Dance on the other hand, despite being the most popular form of entertainment in and outside school, is not regarded as an aspect of music education. Instrumental teaching is virtually non-existent. Teachers' interests in further musical training are influenced by a misconception that singing should...

The meteorological and agricultural assessment techniques that have been developed in South Africa are discussed, with reference to their strengths and weaknesses, application and suggested future developments. Future challenges in drought assessment as influenced by democratization are also considered. We conclude that meteorological methods have several inherent deficiencies which render them risky for the optimum allocation of drought relief. Agricultural drought assessment is suggested...

Intermediate-depth earthquakes and igneous activity are unusual in the geodynamic models of intracontinental belts. In the Atlas mountains of NW Africa, they appear to be coeval and related to geodynamic processes in this region. Driving forces acting on the Atlas area including regional boundary conditions are investigated to suggest a geodynamic event that leads to subcrustal seismic events and related magmatism styles. This geodynamics concerns a period of 45 Ma in which the Atlas system...

Perhaps because educational achievement often has been associated with elite status, the organization and focus of education nearly everywhere in the modern era reflects international influences, some more forceful than others. In this era, with few exceptions, the direction of influence is from European core to southern periphery. Institutional arrangements, disciplinary definitions and hierarchies, legitimizing publications, and instructional authority reside in that core, which...

Cost recovery measures imposed on Third World nations have had a perversive impact on the social welfare of the poor. Education is one of the areas in which this impact has been experienced. In Zimbabwe, the introduction of cost recovery or cutbacks in government expenditure resulted in socioeconomic hardships among the vulnerable groups in society. Shared responsibility between parents and government in financing education is one form of cost recovery introduced in tertiary education....

A survey of the Islamic sites near Aden and in the Abyan district of Yemen. By Geoffrey King and Cristina Tonghini. pp. viii, 96, 35 pls., 11 figs., including 3 maps. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996. £18.00. - Volume 8 Issue 2

In Ethiopia, the Italian Association for Women in Development (AIDOS) has been working with Ethiopia's National Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children for 5 years. AIDOS began working on female genital mutilation in the early 1980s and rejects charges of cultural imperialism that are applied to Northern organizations attempting to help African organizations address this violation of universal human rights. In Ethiopia, 85% of women are mutilated, with...

The Karoo Igneous Province of southern Africa is one of the classic Mesozoic flood basalt provinces of the world. In the case of the early Jurassic Kalkrand Formation of Namibia the succession comprises three major flood basalt units that are separated by two stratigraphically important fluvio-lacustrine interlayers. These horizons preserve a record of the complex interplay between sedimentation, effusion of Karoo flood basalts and extensional tectonics that predated and accompanied the...

The article analyses the context and content of current national education sector policy documents from four African countries (Ethiopia, 1994; Mozambique, 1995; Namibia, 1993; Zambia, 1996). These documents are examined in relation to the educational policy agenda presented in World Bank publications and in the documents of the Jomtien Education for All conference. In all four cases a considerable degree of agreement is found between the national documents and the donor agenda, particularly...

This paper describes a school/university collaboration resulting in the development of alternative teaching strategies which honored and motivated inner-city African–American middle-school students. The four strategies based on motivation and school failure theories were: non-competitive effort-based grading multiple performance opportunities increased responsibility and choice and validation of cultural differences. An experienced classroom teacher researcher used these strategies in an...

Purpose: This article compares and contrasts the Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) program offered in China and Egypt. Its goal is to explain the successes and failures of the China project using the Egyptian experience as a model, and to provide suggestions for future overseas projects. The primary purpose of these projects was to establish a core group of reform-minded MHPE graduates who would work to implement institutional improvements in both countries. Summary: Results...