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South African education is a special case because the shift to inclusion co-incided with, and was a consequence of, fundamental political changes. In the context of the development of an inclusive education policy in South Africa (as described by Lomofsky & Lazarus, 2001), the implications for educational psychologists are discussed in detail.
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The study examined the appropriateness of EASLIS curriculum to the professional practice in LIS fields in Uganda. It sought to establish where EASLIS, BLIS and M. Sc. Inf. Sc. graduates work, what they do, and whether their education and training meets employer expectations It further identified areas of the curriculum that need revision. The study was mainly qualitative. Purposeful sampling using the snowball/chain and homogeneous strategies were applied. Methods included focus group...
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The article describes the establishment of the African Centre for Engineering and Technology Education (ACETE) at the Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST) in Kigali Rwanda. In the article, the authors discuss the organisational and functional structure of the ACETE as a satellite centre of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education (UICEE), based at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. The authors further highlight the achievements so far, showing...
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This article examines the benefits and tradeoffs for African American professional educators and students that resulted from the profound Brown v. Board of Education decision. It addresses the impact of the Brown decision immediately after it was rendered for African American educators and students and the legacy of Brown for both of these groups during the previous 50th years. The article also presents the findings from a study of 36 current and recently retired African American high school...
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In 1999, for the first time in South Africa, a Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (MTCT) prevention programme was implemented at the routine primary care level and not as part of a research protocol. A total of 264 women attending prenatal care in these clinics were interviewed in Xhosa using a standardized questionnaire. All had been offered HIV testing, and 95% had accepted. Women who had not been tested were four times more likely to believe that in the community families reject...
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Paper presented for the Policy Forum on Private Higher Education in Africa, Accra, Ghana, 2-3 November
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Paper prepared for the CHER 17th annual conference, University of Twente, Enschede, 17-19 September
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The purpose of this research study was to find out how primary education is related to rural communities in Malawi as one of the developing countries in Africa. The study followed a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. The population of interest were rural primary school graduates, teachers, students and craftsmen. Data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions and class observations. Data were analysed by coding them into themes and categories that were...
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Self-identification as a kanaka is a common rhetorical ploy in highlands Papua New Guinea, used to emphasize both a sense of economic and political marginalization, and a continued identification with tradition. However, I argue that the figure of the kanaka is not simply that of the villager, but of that terminated project of education, the ‘school leaver.’ I juxtapose the reflections of one such ‘school leaver’ on his exclusion from the educational trajectory with the celebrations and...