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In spite of the high growth that Africa has experienced in recent years, poverty, inequality and unemployment remain high, indicating lack of inclusion in the development process and its outcomes. But poverty, for example, can be reduced at a faster rate when inclusive growth strategies are applied and when special income distribution policies are undertaken. This study is an attempt to contribute to the design of inclusive growth policies. It examines the correlates of poverty - headcount...

This study investigated the nutritional status of school children in deprived areas of Mauritius and determined whether specific socio-economic factors were associated with poor nutritional status among children. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 240 primary school children aged 8-12 years old. Out of 27 schools located in the deprived regions of Mauritius, eight of them were selected for the study. The data collection tools included a questionnaire, anthropometric measurements...

The world today had identified the importance of collaboration in finding solution to individual, societal and global problems. Also associations and clubs are being forms annually in order to fight common problems. However mathematics classrooms especially in Nigeria are still concentrating on teacher centered learning where mathematics teachers claimed the monopoly of knowledge and their students’ mere recipients of such knowledge. This paper sought to look at collaboration as an effective...

The world today had identified the importance of collaboration in finding solution to individual, societal and global problems. Also associations and clubs are being forms annually in order to fight common problems. However mathematics classrooms especially in Nigeria are still concentrating on teacher centered learning where mathematics teachers claimed the monopoly of knowledge and their students’ mere recipients of such knowledge. This paper sought to look at collaboration as an effective...

The mathematics classroom in Nigeria is a major problem to teachers and to the students. Most classroom activities look teachers centred as students were mere listeners and recipients of knowledge rather than being active initiators of their knowledge. This paper seeks to investigate the effects of introducing inclusion to the Nigeria mathematics classroom practice. Four mathematics teachers taught a senior secondary two mathematics in one secondary school in Northern Nigeria for a term and...

Language education policy based on system-wide implementation of multilingual education in Ethiopia has much to offer the international fields of language policy and bi/multilingual education. In this chapter centralised language policy in the capital, Addis Ababa, will be compared with a decentralised approach taken in the most linguistically diverse region, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR). System-wide assessment demonstrates that student achievement in the more...

This paper challenges orthodox higher management education provided in South Africa. The reflections explored here are of a democratic and ethical nature: Democratic as it promotes a more inclusive concept of management education; and ethical because the new principles informing management action should explicitly address the welfare of the disenfranchised. Drawing from Freire’s critical pedagogy, this paper proposes a reorientation of managers as an integral part of citizenship and by...

Fostering adolescents' communication on sexuality issues with their parents and other significant adults is often assumed to be an important component of intervention programmes aimed at promoting healthy adolescent sexual practices. However, there are few studies describing the relationship between such communication and sexual practices, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examined the relationships between adolescents' communication with significant adults and their condom use...

One of the major challenges facing secondary education sub-sector in Kenya over the years is low transition rate from primary to secondary level of education. This has contributed to low enrolment at secondary schools with a wide gap existing between primary and secondary enrolment. With the introduction of Free Primary Education in 2003, the gap would have widened further if efforts were not made to enhance access to secondary education. Low enrolment had been occasioned by introduction of...

Purpose – This paper aims to ascertain the adequacy of the facilities provided in the students' hostels and to also investigate the level of satisfaction of the students to the available facilities. Design/methodology/approach – A total number of 250 questionnaires were distributed to the respondents. A cluster sampling method was used in the data collection in which attempt was made to get a fair representation on each floor of the hostel blocks. The data collected were then analysed using...

The research that this article reports on investigated the incidence of learner discipline problems, the effect of them on teachers, the teachers’ methods of maintaining discipline and the effectiveness of those methods in one township, namely Jouberton in Klerksdorp, South Africa. The experiences of both teachers and learners were surveyed. It was found that discipline at the school is far from satisfactory and problems with discipline are more serious than the international norm indicates....

Managing learner aggression in the school system is central to learners’ academic performance and holistic development. In order to manage learner aggression, it is important to understand the contributory factors and the forms of learner aggression. This article reports on an investigation of factors contributing to learner aggression in rural secondary schools in the Empangeni district of KwaZulu-Natal in order to identify the forms of learner aggression and to establish strategies to...

Award schemes and self-evaluation systems have been developed to implement the 'Health-Promoting School (HPS)' concept in European and Asian countries. While there have been many successes in these regions, the implementation of HPS in African countries has been minimal. This study evaluated the impact of a self-evaluation system on school health in Niger.A school health activity guide was developed and distributed to 1999 primary schools in the Niger Tahoua region to raise awareness and...

The paper is based on a study which sought the understanding and appreciation of, and activities on issues of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) amongst the staff of the Faculty of Education, University of Botswana (UB). A survey design was adopted with a questionnaire for collecting data from academic staff members while Heads of Academic Departments (HoDs) were interviewed. The findings show an agreement between academic staff and HoDs that ESD issues are inadequately addressed in...

Teachers in South African schools battle with problems in learner discipline. Research indicates that teachers are at a loss as to handling these situations. The aim of this article is to survey incidents of serious learner misconduct in a representative selection of education systems abroad to extract any guidelines that might be applicable to South African schools. Eight education systems were surveyed: Brazil, England, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia and New Zealand. The...

Our interest is in how African-U.S. (descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States) college students structure their primary territories with racial-cultural artifacts especially as a function of psychological Africanity (racial identity). This probably is a novel idea as we are unaware of any studies addressing the issue. Our research grows out of the emic theory-derived steady state approach which mandates investigating the role of psychological Africanity in psychological research...