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Bongani Alison Mazibuko (1932-1997) left an infamous though very significant legacy to Christian education in South Africa. 1 He was the first black person to be awarded a PhD in missiology and one of the earliest black theologians to be appointed at the University of South Africa (Unisa) as a lecturer in the Department of Missiology (Saayman 1997: 253). Mazibuko was also the founder of the Umlazi Theological Training Project (UTTP), through which he taught Christian education and missiology...
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The impact of climate change on the temporal and spatial distribu- tion of precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration and surface runoff in the Volta Basin (400 000 km 2 ) of West Africa is investigated. Trend analysis shows clear positive trends with high levels of significance for temperature time series. Precipitation time series show both positive and negative trends, although most significant trends are negative. In the case of river discharge, a small number of (mostly positive)...
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This paper describes how the Ministry of Education and Sports embarked on reforming business technical and vocational education and training in Uganda by introducing Competency Based Education and Training. It explains how skeleton Uganda Vocational Qualification Framework UVQF, secretariat was created .UVQF which developed with stakeholders occupational profiles and standards, assessment instruments, modularized curricula and test items. It explains benefits to the water and sanitation...
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Introduction Education plays a paramount role in the development of any country of the world. Through it, knowledge and skills are passed from generation to generation. History of education shows a division into three different stages: primary. secondary, and tertiary. The tertiary education has been commonly referred to as higher education. This level of education has been presented in different fonns: classical and academic: technical and vocational. The practice of Christian higher...
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The divergence between a predominately White teacher education population and a diverse public school system poses this question: how do universities best prepare teacher candidates to teach children of racially and linguistically different backgrounds than their own? Teacher education programs have been struggling with this issue for several years. In her article Preparing teachers for culturally diverse schools: Research and the overwhelming presence of whiteness, Christine Sleeter (2001)...
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Most education in the pre-colonial Middle East and South Asia was inextricably permeated by religion, in that it relied heavily on study or memorization of religious scriptures and rituals for the purpose of training believers, or on the use of religious texts or stories to teach ostensibly secular subjects such as geography or history. Colonial penetration of these areas introduced a new model of Western education, in which the curriculum was dominated by material whose truth claims were...
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This report aims to answer the following questions: To what extent do Ethiopian children have access to educational and training services? To what extent do women progress to primary, secondary and technical education? To what extent is the quality of education improving? These research questions were closely related to the [Education for All] EFA goals but expanded the scope of access and equality issues to cover secondary education and technical and vocational education. Education and...
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This study investigated African American students to determine effective ways to channel their energy in the mathematics classroom. Two African American male students participated in this qualitative inquiry that allowed them to speak for themselves about the characteristics of teachers and instructional practices that can contribute, in general, to students’ and, in particular, to African American students’success in the mathematics classroom. The voices of these two African American...