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Despite a commitment to achieving inclusion for all by the Botswana government, the enrolment of students with disabilities in Botswana's Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions is still fraught with confusion as reflected by its practice and implementation. Exclusionary rather than inclusive practices remain prevalent.This study explores students with mild intellectual disabilities' experiences of inclusion or exclusion in TVET institutions using key concepts of...

The problem of gender inequality has existed as long as the human race but surprisingly, it has persisted in modern society. This paper sought to explore culture as a context in which female school leaders exercise their roles and how it influences their practice. Studies were identified through carefully defined eligibility criteria. A thematic analysis was conducted through the use of mind maps to deduce four common themes. There was evidence that culture has an impact on how female school...

Kenya has made many attempts to regulate the production of single-use plastics through partial bans and the imposition of hefty taxes. Whereas government initiatives are crucial to resolving single-use plastic pollution, commitments made by youths can be an important part of the solution. Yet, youths are habituated to using single-use plastics without understanding fully their negative impacts. Understanding the knowledge and attitudes of youths is of the utmost importance in the effort to...

Objectives: Health education and awareness campaigns about tuberculosis (TB) can empower adolescents on different aspects of the disease and its management, resulting in early and appropriate care seeking behavior through their advocacy in the community. We assessed the impact of educational intervention on knowledge and awareness about TB among adolescents in the greater Banjul area of The Gambia where approximately 70% of national TB cases are notified. Materials and Methods: A...

This study aimed to identify the role of school administration in activating crisis management during the Corona pandemic in the State of Palestine and Kuwait from the View Point of secondary school principals and to identify the impact of the following variables (state, years of experience, specialization, educational qualification). 20) paragraphs, which were distributed to (60) male and female managers in Palestine and Kuwait, and (50) questionnaires valid for analysis were counted, and...

Background: Although Mauritius has adopted an inclusive education policy for learners with special education needs, it has not yet been implemented. Little is known about how teachers support learners experiencing reading and writing difficulties (RWD) in mainstream government primary schools. Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the perspectives of mainstream primary school teachers in Mauritius about learners with RWD and inclusive education. Setting: The data collection took place at...

Abstract Background Evidence on process outcomes such as acceptability, and feasibility of behavior change communication interventions are important in program evaluation to understand how, and why such a program works. However; documented evidence on the issue is not available as far as the social and behavior change communication (SBCC) on malaria is concerned. Enrolling the frontline providers this study measured the acceptability and feasibility of the school-engaged SBCC strategy on...

The changing climate is unequivocal, and it is generally recognised as a threat to the terrestrial environment due to its cross-sectoral and irreversible impacts. Since the inception of industrial revolution (1750), the concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) in the atmosphere has been compromised. Until the past two centuries, the quantity of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere had never surpassed about 280 part per million (ppm) and 790 part...

The study investigates influence of parents’ physical abuse on emotional and academic adjustment of secondary school students in Ijumu LGA of Kogi State, Nigeria. Correlational designed was used for the study. A sample of fifty one (51) abused students was drawn from two public schools. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated. Statistical means was used to answer the research questions and inferential statistics of Pearson Product-Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used in...

The role of human capital development in the era of globalization, knowledge-based economy, and technological development cannot be underestimated. This is mainly attached to the creative and adaptive capacity of human capital (HC) in bringing multidimensional changes and developments for the individual, organization, and the country at large. However, the scenario of HC in Sub-Saharan Africa and specifically in Ethiopia remains the lowest compared to the world standard. With this premise,...

Child labor disrupts education, but there is scant research on the reciprocal relationship: education disrupting child labor. We examined the link between school quality and child cocoa agricultural labor in a sample of 2168 fifth-grade children from forty-one primary schools in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Children attending a higher-quality school were less likely to work on a cocoa plantation. Specifically, quality infrastructure and teaching materials were associated with reduced cocoa labor,...

Community health workers (CHWs) hold potential to support universal health coverage and better health for vulnerable communities. They are integral to the re-engineered Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, introduced in South Africa in 2011. This study focussed on how to train CHWs in large numbers, especially in resource-limited, rural settings. Skills2Care, a method of cooperative learning for CHWS, has been pioneered in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.To determine whether Skills2Care...

This chapter examines traditional education in mainland Tanzania and the interaction between it and Western education in order to see what indigenous educational models Nyerere and his party were referring to in their search for national identity. Nyerere’s justification for his policy of education for self-reliance is therefore a twofold one of socialism for the future coupled with a return to the values of a traditional society (again his own brand of it) in the past. Education as a...

For centuries corporal punishment was used as a method for disciplining school children in Britain. Britain was one of the last countries in the European Union to abolish this form of punishment in its schools, and did so only after a long and bitter struggle waged in parliament, on the streets, and in various courts of law. This article traces the manner in which this practice became deeply entrenched in the British way of life, as well as the long battle to dislodge it. The focus then...

This chapter describes certain indigenous African principles of life and personal and social values as they appear in the culture of the Ewe. The dogma is a corollary to the beliefs that life is the most worthy thing in the world and that man’s humanity has inalienable rights. In the pursuance of the value of productivity and prolificity in marriage, women, especially those who have difficulties in having babies, visit shrines of the gods regularly. At the shrines they offer small gifts and...