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Adolescent fertility is a problem that is urgent in developing countries due to rapid population growth rates. To gain a better understanding of adolescent fertility within developing countries a study was undertaken to examine adolescent sexual behavior among teens within a developing country, Zambia. A self-administered questionnaire was given to secondary school going teenage women in Zambia. The sample population consisted of 503 women between the ages of 12 and 19. The survey was...
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Previous research has indicated that African-American students, particularly those from low-income environments tend to be at greater risk for low academic achievement. However, income level is only one factor that contributes to low academic achievement. This study investigated the influence of other factors, including parental use of nurturant behavior and child household duties on the academic performance of at-risk African-American students. Data was obtained from a subset utilized in...
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The Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone (SSZ) is considered as an important region for gold exploration in the western sector of Iran. Its mountainous topography and unpaved routes make its study challenging for researchers and raise the costs for mining companies strating new exploration plans. Gold mineralization mainly occurs as irregular to lenticular sulfide-bearing quartz veins along shear zones in deformed mafic to intermediate metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks. In this investigation, ASTER...
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The overall purpose of this study was to determine the job prospects and relevance of printing education to the printing industry. The study was conducted in four Nigerian cities—Lagos, Kaduna, Kano and Benin City.
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Previous articleNext article No AccessBibliographic EssayLanguage and Education in Africa: A Select Bibliography, 1980-1990David WestleyDavid Westley Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 36, Number 3Aug., 1992 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article...
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In this paper evidence supporting a classical Marxist perspective on the education policies of the state in South Africa is examined. Following an outline of the relevant theory on the state, attention is focused on applications of it to the South Africa case. The evidence cited in support of these applications is not found to be convincing.
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This article describes and evaluates an environmental health education project, focusing on water and sanitation issues, which was carried out in two Egyptian villages in the Nile delta. The study is multifaceted as it involves various hygiene education strategies carried out by health unit staff, teachers, graduate volunteers and local village leaders who deliver simple environmental health messages in a variety of different settings. The project is also multifaceted in that it looks at...
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In Papua New Guinea, community schools are sometimes faced with the threat of school closure. Less dramatically, individual teachers contribute toward a hidden curriculum of dissolution through actions that emphasize structural weakness and the possibility of entropy. When certain forms of educational boundaries are crossed, students learn that formal schooling may be more flexible than educators often pretend. Although researchers have generally ignored these secondary forms of hidden...
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A study was conducted to explore gender differences in the American achievement ideology among 148 gifted and nongifted African-American males and females in an urban school district. Also explored were the perceptions these students had regarding social, cultural, and psychological determinants of achievement and underachievement. Results did not indicate differential determinants of under-achievement by gender; however, statistically significant differences were found by academic program...
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A survey of five primary schools in the Njala area, Sierra Leone showed that Pediculus humanus capitis infestation is wide-spread. The overall prevalence was 6.8% among 1007 school children examined. Infestation rates varied between schools from 1.4% to 14.6% and the prevalence of infestation increased with age, from 3.1% among class I children to 10.2% among class IV and decreased to 4.9% among class VI children. Females had a higher infestation rate (8.3%) than their male counterparts...
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This study reports the results of an evaluation of an education and training effort for promoting diarrheal control, nutritional health and general maternal and child health among rural Yemeni women. Eight hundred and five volunteer women and men from twenty Yemeni villages in the governorates of Al Beida and Hajja, were trained to disseminate basic health messages to friends and neighbors in their villages. Evaluators visited four villages that had received the training and two that had...
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The authors examined the impact of a structured career planning program on the career maturity scores of 61 African American premedical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory.
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The influence of perceived social support on differential graduation rates of African-American and White students at a predominantly White university was assessed through path analysis. In the path model, precollege academic performance, first-year college grade-point average (CGPA), and general adjustment variables were hypothesized to affect graduation. Although this initial model provided an adequate fit to the data, the direct path from social support to CGPA was not significant. In a...