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Abstract The South African Schools Act, No. 84 of 1996 (SASA), provides parents with opportunities to serve on the governing bodies of public schools. In this context, members of school governing bodies may hold unique sets of expectations, which may influence the type of education to which a school community aspires. This article reports on an investigation into middle-class, public primary school governing body expectations of teacher workloads from a South African labour law perspective...

Technology-mediated education or e-learning is growing globally both in scale and delivery capacity due to the large diffusion of the ubiquitous information and communication technologies (ICT) in general and the web technologies in particular. This statement has not yet been fully supported by research, especially in developing countries such as Algeria. The purpose of this paper was to identify directions for addressing the needs of academics in higher education institutions in Algeria in...

The southern East African Rift has an unusually large seismogenic thickness (35–40 km), which is responsible for wide tilted basins and extremely long faults with the potential for M7‐8 normal‐faulting earthquakes. From 6–19 December 2009, a shallow earthquake sequence (four of M w > 5.5) hit the Karonga region of northern Lake Malawi. The location is 50 km west of the rift‐bounding Livingstone Fault, within the hanging‐wall. We used seismology and InSAR to obtain source parameters and...

All the articles in this edition of Discourse celebrate the joy and power of thinking, the exuberance of new ideas, the crucial need for bold and innovative intellectual challenge. All the writers below have the ability to connect on matters of both theoretical and more directly lived experience, causing us to think anew and in different ways.

The Delivering Service Indicators seek to provide a set of indices for benchmarking service delivery performance in education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and active monitoring of service delivery systems and to become an instrument of public accountability and good governance in Africa. The main perspective adopted by the Delivering Service Indicators index is one of citizens accessing services and facing...

Abstract Despite recognition in various educational and related policies, the knowledge and worldviews of indigenous people of South Africa continue to play a marginal role in the country's education (Breidlid, 2003, 2004). While acknowledging the importance of formal western education in providing the skills needed for negotiating a variety of roles in life, this article questions its alienating effect on the majority of the country's black population. It contends that Curriculum 2005...

Abstract The focus of this study was to explore the opinions, knowledge and requirements of regular primary school teachers who taught in schools where children with hearing impairments were included. A questionnaire which covered the four aspects, was used to collect data on a sample of 104 regular school teachers. Results indicate that teachers who taught these children had more knowledge about hearing impairment than those who did not. The majority of teachers expressed a positive...

ii Dedication iv Acknowledgements . V List of Figures/Maps X List of Tables xi List of Abbreviations xiii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background 1 1.2. Statement of Research Problem ........ J 1.3. Hypothesis 6 1.4. Objectives 6 1.5. Theoretical Framework 6 1.6. Literature Review 8 1.7. Data Collection 21 1.8. Explanation of Concepts 23 1.9. Organisation of the study 25 1.10. Limitation 1.11. Significance of the Study 26 CHAPTER TWO: THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE CHILD’S...

Introduction Roora/Lobola is a significant element of marriage among the Shona of Zimbabwe (Ansell, 2001). It is a custom that has stood the taste of time. concept of Roora/Lobola is translated into English as bridewealth or brideprice. Because the authors are not comfortable with the translation which seems to suggest the purchase of wives, thus being value-laden, terms Lobola and Roora will be used interchangeably to refer to the phenomenon. However, citations employing the term...

African American males are at increased risk for experiencing disciplinary practices that exclude them from the school environment. It is believed that African American males’ overrepresentation in the receipt of these practices contributes to their involvement in the criminal justice system as they approach adolescence and enter adulthood. The connection of exclusionary discipline with incarceration rates is termed the School to Prison Pipeline. Although some scholars have identified...

Pupils with albinism potentially face a number of challenges in accessing quality education in schools in Botswana. Physical issues such as poor eyesight related to the condition and the problems of sensitive skin in such a dry and warm climate are both contributing factors to making learning problematic for some pupils. This study by Gareth Dart of the University of Worcester, Tiroyaone Nkanotsang from a junior secondary school in Botswana, Ose Chizwe from the Government of Botswana and...

This paper examines the translation of global educational norms of quality assurance in two countries with very different regulatory regimes in higher education: Chile and South Africa. The translation process is conceptualised here as a contested socio‐political process of appropriation and creation of meaning. Drawing upon the strategic–relational concept of selectivity, the paper argues that quality assurance policies have become a hegemonic tool for re‐organising higher education because...

Immunohistochemistry was used to investigate the topographic distribution of the alpha1 subunit of the GABA receptor (GABRA1) in guinea pig inferior colliculus after treatments that caused a unilateral loss of peripheral neural sensitivity in the high-frequency regions of the cochlea. Both forms of treatment (direct mechanical lesion of the cochlea and acoustic overstimulation) resulted in a significant decrease in GABRA1 labeling in regions of the contralateral inferior colliculus in which...

Application of dexamethasone to the round window has been shown to ameliorate high frequency hearing loss resulting from the trauma of cochlear implantation in experimental animals, but elucidation of the factors influencing protection of the high frequencies has been confounded by the local trauma from electrode array insertion. In this experiment, a second turn cochleostomy and implantation was performed on guinea pigs, to examine protection in the basal turn without the confounding effect...

Introduction Academic libraries collect material to support the teaching and research objectives of their parent bodies. The library serves both the teaching and non teaching staff of the university, researchers from other academic institutions, and students. Experience has shown that the majority of users of academic libraries are students. The library collection is organized to give easy access to material. According to Maloney (2004) the role of the library is to organize information...

Using an ex-post factor survey research design, the present study examined the influence of gender, marital status and religious affiliation on assertiveness of education majors. For the purpose of the study, 367 education majors were randomly selected from two institutions. This was made up of 96 (26.2%) males and 271(73.8%) females; 165 (45%) married, 191 (52%) singles and 11 (3%) widowed. Participants’ ages ranged between 17 to 53 years. Validated scales were used to collect data, which...

There are limited data on the epidemiology and risk factors of periodontitis in young populations in developing nations. This study assesses the prevalence of periodontal attachment loss and aggressive periodontitis and the association with ethnicity among high school students in Sudan.The study sample consisted of 1,200 students, 13 to 19 years old, selected from 38 public and private high schools using a multistage, stratified sampling design. The subjects were interviewed and examined...

“Dendritic valley networks” and broad “longitudinal valleys” are widespread within the eastern Libya Montes region. The morphologic characteristics of the studied dendritic valleys, especially their occurrence at local summits, provide evidence for the initial formation by surface runoff due to atmospheric precipitation whereas the longitudinal valley systems are thought to have been formed and modified by groundwater-induced processes. Our crater counts and model ages show, that the...

"Uneven Paths of Development: Innovation and Learning in Asia and Africa." The Social Science Journal, 47(2), pp. 463–464