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Although the Western model of education has spread worldwide, traditional Islamic education continues to have a strong influence in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This article seeks to determine the reason it remains such a vital part of village life in the commune of Bounaamane, located in Morocco's southern Souss valley. Why do so many children attend Qurʾanic schools, even though modern education is available? Because standard sociological methodologies, with their surveys and...
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The social network characteristics of a culturally and racially diverse group of first-year college students (n=208) and white students (n=84) attending the same college were examined at the time of college entry and at the beginning of the second semester. Relationships between network characteristics and college adjustment in the second semester were also explored. White students reported larger social networks and more interaction with perceived sources of support than Asian and Latino/a...
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To test the effects of an HIV/AIDS education program.A quasi-experimental, nested cross-sectional design including baseline and 6-month follow-up surveys. Schools, stratified according to location, were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 6) or comparison conditions (n = 12).Public primary schools in Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions, Tanzania.A total of 2026 sixth and seventh grade pupils (average age, 14.0 years) participated at baseline (85%) and 1785 at follow-up.The program was designed...
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A predictive model of black South African children's behaviour is evaluated in the present study. Although variables in the model are of some predictive value, they are not as salient for the South African sample as has been found for children elsewhere. Rural versus urban differences appear predictive, though socioeconomic status, household crowding, and reliance on subsistence agriculture are less so. Most predictive of all was the specific community from which a child was drawn. The paper...
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Developing countries are increasingly feeling the economical and technological pressures brought to bear by their modern trading partners and those who assist them financially. Their only answer to this dilemma is to educate themselves. This in itself posses a severe problem because of dispersed populations, lack of facilities and trained teachers.
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Abstract The objective of this paper is to highlight the complexity of the magnetic record carried by the Early Cambrian volcano-sedimentary sequence from the Bou Azzer region in the Anti Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Despite an extensive sampling of various types of rocks with various bedding attitudes, the interpretation of the remanent directions in terms of successive paleomagnetic poles remains ambiguous. The comparison of these results with two paleomagnetic analyses previously carried...
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The responses of South African university students ( N = 303) to the Commitment to Career Choices Scale are analyzed by means of a confirmatory factor analysis as suggested by Ellis and Blustein in 1992. The results provide support for the 1992 findings of Stead and Watson.
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Summary This study examines the extent of assortative mating for education in Northern Sudan and urban Khartoum. More males than females were found at higher levels of education. Increasingly, people tend to marry persons of equal educational level, but the unequal educational opportunities for males and females have led to the emergence of educational exogamy in which members of different educational levels are more likely to marry from the adjacent educational category than from distant...
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A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire was carried out to determine the prevalence of khat chewing among secondary school students in Agaro, southwestern Ethiopia in 1991. Two-hundred-forty-eight students randomly selected from grade 9 to 12 were included in the study with current prevalence of 64.9%. Khat chewing was found to be associated with being Muslim and male. The most frequent users were also in the age group of 15 to 22 years. The association between khat...
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Abstract This paper presents the results of an investigation of the magnitude–intensity and intensity–attenuation relationships for earthquakes in the Atlas block and Algeria using macroseismic data. This work is based on a selected sample of isoseismal maps from 32 events which were recently revised. Surface‐wave magnitudes, M s , are recalculated using the Prague formula and range from 4·2 to 7·45. Because the Atlas mountains block is in a collision zone, earthquakes occur in general...
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A new telemetered seismological network has been recently installed in northern Algeria. At present, this new seismic network includes 30 stations, with a final goal of 32 stations connected by radio and dedicated telephone lines to a centre located at the CRAAG headquarters in Alger-Bouzare´ah. The Algerian Telemetered Seismological Network (ATSN) stations are all equipped with short-period seismometers. Monitoring by this network will allow a more precise knowledge of the seismicity in...
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A survey of knowledge, attitude and practice of contraception was carried out among 1,674 students (mean age 17.4 years) in Harer town, eastern Ethiopia. Fifty-four per cent of the students spontaneously mentioned a modern contraceptive method when asked, but large numbers of students did not know the answers to specific questions about prevention of pregnancy. The students were receptive to more information in schools on sexuality and contraception. Overall, 20% of females and 65% of males...
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Even when a state fulfils its role in providing places for girls in school, unless education is compulsory the availability and accessibility of places is not enough: decisions about whether daughters will go to school at all or how long they will stay there are taken within individual families and communities. Parents have to be both able (in economic terms) and willing (in terms of attitude) to take up the school places for their daughters. Socio-cultural traditions, especially in remote...