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This analysis of research conducted by graduate students at South African universities over the last 70 years is an attempt to identify the foci of South African science education research. Appropriate graduate degrees were systematically identified by interrogating electronic databases and verifying details. Title and abstract were then used to assign keywords. Overall 23% and 77% of the 469 graduate degrees identified are doctoral and master's degrees, respectively. The activity of...
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Nigeria has been experiencing low levels of economic development over the years. It has been observed that education plays a vital role in the economic development of any nation. It is the aim of this study to empirically establish whether the low level of education in Nigeria has influenced its low level of economic development.
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This paper considers Papua New Guinean indigenous perspectives of the past and the role of archaeology therein. Melanesians commonly see the oral tradition as their primary means of learning about the past and archaeology as a pursuit undertaken primarily by academics, most of whom are foreign. In order to encourage community interest in archaeology and the preservation of cultural heritage it is proposed that the indigenous perspective must be considered in all aspects of archaeological...
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This paper considers Papua New Guinean indigenous perspectives of the past and the role of archaeology therein. Melanesians commonly see the oral tradition as their primary means of learning about the past and archaeology as a pursuit undertaken primarily by academics, most of whom are foreign. In order to encourage community interest in archaeology and the preservation of cultural heritage it is proposed that the indigenous perspective must be considered in all aspects of archaeological...
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In this article school characteristics linked with educational effectiveness in 14 sub-Saharan African countries are identified. Effectiveness has been defined in terms of students' literacy achievement at the end of Grade 6, after taking their social and academic backgrounds into account. The data used are from the second major educational policy research study conducted by the 14 countries that constitute the Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality study (SACMEQ)....
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The urgency of South Africa's political transformation provides social scientists with an opportunity to monitor an encounter between idealism and reality in post-apartheid policy-making. Education policy appears to derive from political symbolism divorced from the material realities of macroeconomic policy. The extent and nature of desegregation and redistribution on the ground are investigated in 18 secondary schools in Pietermaritzburg, supplemented by interviews in the Provincial...
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Available in print form, East Wilbert Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark ( THS EAF R729.5.R87T34L4)
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On a grassy plain in South Africa,thousands of miles from home, four zoo-bred South China tiger cubs^1 are learning to hunt in the wild.
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Abstract Reading proficiency is currently a great concern for South African educators. According to the literature on reading proficiency, reading difficulties stem from early literacy development and any improvement in these early literacy skills may help improve reading proficiency. It has, however also been found that South African learners who participated in this study do not meet the standards for their age group in terms of early literacy development. Educators need to know what...