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Literature in English in Nigeria is vital as it develops and expands language awareness and creates socio-cultural awareness. Despite the enormous benefits students and readers gain from literature education, it has some issues that thwart its effective teaching and learning. These issues include the negative attitude of students towards literature in English, lack of engaging instructional strategies, lack of qualified and experienced teachers to teach literature, inappropriate or perceived...

The stress level among the secondary school administrators is relatively associated with the amount of work in different type of schools. Different type of schools receives different student with varied abilities hence the level of expectation by the education stakeholders vary from type of school to the other. This expectation is all focused on the school administrators who are expected to achieve both physical structure of the school and the academic achievement in relation to the ability...

The study was conducted among university pre-service teachers pursuing Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science with Education degree programmes, with the major aim of analysing the effect selected demographic attributes or parameters of gender, age and religion on intimacy, HIV risk perception and self-efficacy. A total of 557 respondents selected using systematic random sampling from both Makerere University School of Education (Uganda) and Dar es Salaam University College of Education...

Background: The central claim of this article is that African disability justice is possible through analysing, re-examining and reimagining realities that distort and disempower the being of individuals with disabilities. Aim: In this article, I argue for an African disability justice. Methods: I do this by establishing that higher education ought to produce citizens who are responsive and are able to reinvent Africa through the idea of (community) serving. I borrow these ideas from the...

Abstract Background Malaria prevention in Africa is mainly through the use of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs). The objective of the study was to assess the effect of supplementing LLINs with either larviciding with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) or community education and mobilization (CEM), or with both interventions in the context of integrated vector management (IVM). Methods The study involved a factorial, cluster-randomized, controlled trial conducted in Malindi...

Background: Students are sometimes subjected to difficult circumstances to achieve success. Studying under these circumstances could cultivate aggression towards self and others, and the environment. Little, if any, published research is available dealing with students being orientated autonomous versus being submissive and perceptions of aggression. Objectives: To explore and describe the perceptions of groups of students being orientated autonomous versus students being submissive and...

In 2018, the United Nations global report showed that people with disabilities, who make up 15% of the worlds’ population, have poorer health and rehabilitation access (SDG 3). Without improving the needed person-centered health and rehabilitation services at household level, SDG 3 cannot be achieved. This includes addressing human resource shortages through training multi-skilled community based rehabilitation workers (CRWs) to build rural workforce capacity and enhance the lives of people...

Abstract There is growing evidence that early life conditions are important for outcomes during adolescence, including cognitive development and education. Economic conditions at the time children enter school are also important. We examine these relationships for young adolescents living in a low-income drought-prone pastoral setting in Kenya using historical rainfall patterns captured by remote sensing as exogenous shocks. Past rainfall shocks measured as deviations from local long-term...


 The study examined the influence of anonymity and mutual disclosure on trust in online counselling relationships in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised undergraduate and postgraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Findings revealed that majority of the students showed moderate level of trust. It was also revealed that anonymity (β = 0.310, p...

The purpose of the study was to explore teachers’ and student teachers’ perspective on reflective practices in teaching and learning in public basic schools in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region of Ghana. The study adopted sequential explanatory design. The study employed the theory of John Dewey (1932) as its theoretical framework. The study employed sequential explanatory design. The population was made up of teachers and student teachers in the Gomoa East District. The study...

This study investigates the potential impacts of future warming on Global Solar Radiation (GSR) in different parts of Togo, West Africa. It used regional climate simulations of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics version 4.7 (RegCM4) driven by HadGEM-ES and NorESM-M GCM for three different time-slice periods: baseline (1976–2005), near future (2031–2060) and far future (2070–2099). The models produced realistic simulations of GSR and temperature characteristics over the stations...

This mixed methods research explored the autonomous experiences of South African school students when participating in a science fair. A prominent global goal for school science education is for students to partake in scientific inquiry in order to acquire understanding of science concepts, the processes and skills of science, and the nature of science. This places a demand on teachers as it requires a change in pedagogy from a teacher-centred to a student-centred approach. Student autonomy,...

In the bid to improve teaching quality and promote an approach to teacher development that is grounded in the context in which teachers are inserted, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have become a popular alternative model of teacher professional development in many countries. PLCs, however, have been more widely studied in high-resource contexts. In a recognition that existing conceptualizations from the Western literature may not reflect how PLCs are functioning in developing...

Within the provision of education, teachers typically have the closest contact and play a key role in meeting the needs of refugee children through effective communication to achieve culturally qualified education and the provision of more humanistic approach. This descriptive cross-sectional design study is aimed to explore the relationships among psychological resilience, intercultural sensitivity and empathetic tendency in teachers of Syrian refugee children in Turkey. Data were collected...

Persistence to complete has emerged as a pressing issue facing free primary education (FPE) in Kenya. Only 58% of the students who enroll in FPE complete and this proportion drops as they advance to higher levels. Failure to complete primary school, let alone the higher levels of education is alarming. Besides funding, this study explores the features that contribute to students’ pathways to persistence. Using data from the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), this study...

Abstract This chapter reflects on the experiences of more than fifty peace operations deployed to nearly twenty African countries during the twenty-first century to identify key lessons, best practices, and potential solutions that might make peace operations in Africa more effective. It does so in three parts. The first section summarizes the major trends and patterns of peace operations focusing on the record number of missions and peacekeepers deployed in Africa, as well as the expanded...

This study investigated the impact of integrating ICT on pupils’ academic achievement in mathematics in primary schools in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. The quasi-Experimental research design was employed in this study. The targeted population consists of the Primary Schools Pupils in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State. One hundred Pupils (50 males and 50 females) from one school for the treatment group in a school and one hundred Pupils (50 males and 50 females)...

There have been few studies on topic difficulty in the public administration curriculum of African universities. This is further problematized by non-existent literature on the relationships between gender, future career interest and country of study on student difficulty in the study of public administration. This is a gap in the public administration literature which this study attempts to fill. The work is significant to the extent that our understanding of ‘where the shirt tights’...

This study examines the classroom environment for students with disabilities in five pre-primary classrooms in Nairobi, Kenya. Creating an analytical framework based on CLASS, a classroom observation tool, we looked at the types of interactions children with disabilities had with their teachers and peers, using classroom observations and teacher interviews. The majority (63%) of interactions had a positive emotional tone for students with disabilities, and most (54%) were focused on...