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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master in Technology: Education, Durban Institute of Technology, 2004.
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This study investigated teaching and learning, and the classroom learning environment in which the electricity topic was taught by the regular class teacher within the prescribed Grade 9 syllabus in a Secondary School in Papua New Guinea. The study was motivated by the perceived problems students had with understanding science concepts and the lack of classroom-based studies that provide a better understanding of teaching and learning science and the influence of the classroom learning...
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The central question that this article hopes to unpack is whether higher education transformation can occur without taking into consideration an African(a) philosophy of education in South Africa. I hold that higher education policy initiatives as promulgated in the policy documents such as the National Plan for Higher Education (2001) and the White paper 3 (1997) on equity and redress may not be realised if policy is not embedded in the practices of the majority of the people of South...
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This article explores, among other things, the relationship between language and identity. It focuses particularly on the role of the indigenous African languages in higher education. The findings discussed here are based on an empirical study that investigated the status of isiZulu at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville campus. This paper explores the problem of the existing stigma attached to indigenous African languages by their own speakers, particularly the isiZulu and isiXhosa...
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In Papua New Guinea, the biggest cash crop is oil palm, which is largely grown on soils formed in recent volcanic ash. Once N deficiency is overcome, cation deficiencies, especially Mg, become significant in these soils. The aim of this work was to examine the soil cation exchange properties that influence Mg retention and release. The soils have variable cation exchange capacity (CEC), negligible anion exchange capacity and pHCaCl2 values of 5-6. Mean pH buffering capacity is about 2.5...
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The stakeholders of the Zimbabwean examination system expect a given grade to represent a certain achievement standard despite the year it was gained and the subject in which it was achieved. However, ten years after localising examinations the degree of similarity of the examination standards that were set by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council within each of the subjects and between any two, at the General Certificate of Education Ordinary level from 1996 to 1998 was still unknown....
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This study, conducted in Uganda, was set up to observe, record and analyse the pattern of interactions among the participants of URLCODA's adult literacy programme which has taken a semi-formal intergenerational form. Inspired by Vygotsky's ideas on mediation, more 'capable peers' and the Zone of Proximal Development, it was thought that intergenerational interactions in URLCODA's literacy programme could be harnessed to maximise learning among the participants which could become an...
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This article will demonstrate how the move from correspondence education to open and distance learning has been as a result of changing epistemology. It will be argued that the concept of lIgcommunityl/Ig in an African context provides a useful theoretical framework for establishing communities of learning, and that the practice of open and distance learning could serve the needs of such communities. Knowledge as social responsibility serves this ideal, which can only work when the...
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The introduction of decentralization and decentralized service delivery in Uganda placed an increased demand for qualified personnel at the districts and lower levels. Despite this, there were no efforts in the past to enlighten students and trainers at Makerere University about the existing gaps and opportunities available in districts so that the training could be tuned to the needs of the districts. In the year 2000, the Department of Civil Engineering in Makerere University started a...