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This paper investigates the chain of interactions between climatic change, drought condition and food production in Nigeria. The paper relied mainly on secondary data that were generated through the analysis of relevant data from government and non-governmental agencies. From these sources, both quantitative and qualitative information were collected depending on the immediate importance. Among other things, this paper addresses the estimate of drought condition in the savannah region of...

Disability is not inability. A common phrase used so many times. What are we doing to prove this phrase right? The purpose of this thesis was to examine the plight of children with disabilities in Kenya, what systems have been placed in Kenya to assist students with disabilities and what the government and community has done to help and provide independence to these children with various disabilities in the country. Comparisons were made to the British education systems since Kenya was a...

Australian schools have a long history of providing education to students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including new arrivals who are still in the process of acquiring English as an additional language. Nonetheless, the cohort of refugee children and youth coming from Africa's troubled regions in the last few years poses additional challenges for English as a second language (ESL) and mainstream teachers. This paper draws on data from a qualitative research project...

Three groups of Trichuris trichiura-infected school-age children were treated with one dose 400mg albendazole, 100mg mebendazole twice daily for 3 d, or 100mg mebendazole twice daily for 5 d. The albendazole study investigated cure and egg reduction rates and found that only 5 of 66 infected children were egg-negative 7 d post-treatment, giving a cure rate of 8% and a geometric mean egg reduction rate of 89%. However, at day 14 post-treatment, all children were again egg-positive with...

AbstractSince research has shown that high quality preschool education is associated with improved school readiness, better school performance, higher graduation rates, lower crime and delinquency and decreased welfare dependency then it is worth knowing how much is spent on such an educational programme per child per annum. One thousand parents of kindergarten pupils during the period 2004/2005 session formed the sample of this study. The study adopted the ex post facto research design....

This study is an analysis of pedagogical practice and support of English language student teachers during a practicum (teaching practice) in Kenya with a view to discerning what they learnt and the issues that influenced such learning. The study was conducted against a background of calls for research that could provide information for reform of teacher education in general and English language teacher education (ELTE) in particular. The practicum is recognised as an important aspect of all...

This paper presents a critical synthesis of literature concerning gender issues for women in Papua New Guinea, with a specific interest in women teachers and women's issues in other developing countries. The review mainly deals with research literature from 1985 onwards and points to particular barriers to women's career advancement in educational systems (e.g. cultural factors, male domination over women, domestic violence, strong family obligations, low levels of girl education, majority...

This randomized controlled trial tested a tailored, telephone-based physical activity coaching intervention for a predominantly African American group of women with severe obesity and mobility disability. We recruited 92 clinic patients from the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center referred by their physicians during 2004–2007 and randomized participants to one of three groups – awareness (informational brochure, no coaching), lower support (phone coaching only) and higher...

The existing literature has dealt inadequately with the link between education and economic growth in developing countries, particularly for Africa which has experienced a massive growth of enrolment at all levels of education during the second half of the 20th century. Moreover, the issues of causality and dynamics have been largely ignored until lately. This paper investigates the empirical link between education and economic performance for the case of 40 African States for the time...

Preface Acknowledgments Note on Arabic Spellings List of Abbreviations Used in the Text 1. Empire and Education 2. An Uncertain Beginning 3. The West African Connection 4. New Pedagogy for Morocco? 5. Psychological Ethnology 6. A Worker Proletariat with a Dangerous Mentality 7. Elite Demands 8. Nests of Nationalism 9. Legacies and Reversals Notes Bibliography Index

Abstract The nature of the teleconnection linking ENSO variability with Atlantic basin tropical storm formation is investigated. Solutions of the linearized barotropic vorticity equation forced with August–October El Niño event divergence produce upper-tropospheric vorticity anomalies over the Sahel and at the mouth of the North African–Asian (NAA) jet over the tropical Atlantic. These responses are similar in magnitude and orientation to observed ENSO vorticity variability for this region....

Globally there is a growing environmental awareness among all segments of society, but research on the effect of environmental education in shaping the attitude of military students is lacking. Tertiary environmental education to officers of the South African Department of Defence is seated in the Department of Military Geography at the South African Military Academy. A structured questionnaire was used in 2002 and 2005 to determine whether a difference in attitude towards environmental...

CITATION: Smith, C. & Essop, M. F. 2009. Gender differences in metabolic risk factor prevalence in a South African student population. Cardiovascular Journal of Africa, 20(3), 178-182.

Since Independence in 1963, Kenya has launched three Free Primary Education programmes: the first in 1974, the second in 1979 and the most recent in 2003. Using historical data, this paper first outlines each initiative in turn, and discusses why, in the case of the earlier initiatives, impressive initial gains in improved access proved difficult to sustain. Then in the final section, insights gained from a recent micro‐level case study of the impact of the third Free Primary Education...

This study examined relationships between mother-child interactions and children's behaviors in 119 urban African American mothers and their 6 - 7 year old children. Interactions during a cooking task and a follow-up child clean-up task were videotaped. Principal components analyses of behaviors during the cooking task yielded two factors in mothers (Sensitivity and Control), and three in children (Task Involvement, Responsiveness, and Communicative). Children's negativity during a clean up...

In this study, the authors examined the moderating effects of different dimensions racial identity (i.e., racial centrality and public regard) on perceptions of teacher discrimination and academic achievement among a nationally represented sample of African American and Caribbean Black adolescents. The findings revealed that perceived teacher discrimination was negatively related to academic achievement for both African American and Caribbean Black youth. In addition, high racial centrality...

This article examines recent educational reforms in Tanzania by looking at the cultural politics of pedagogical change in secondary and teacher education. It presents an ethnography of a teachers college founded on the principles of social constructivism in a country where formalistic, teacher-centered pedagogy is the norm. Using data collected through a year of participant observation, it argues that the cultural, economic, and political dimensions of teachers’ practice need to be...