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In 1980 there were 180 boys at Peterhouse. In 1990 there were 940 boys and girls: 536 at the boys’ school, 214 at the girls’, and 190 at Springvale House. To cope with the expansion of numbers, building operations had been unceasing throughout the 1980s, after the initial burst as a result of the 1980 appeal.
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Abstract The charge that schooling is poorly adapted to modern conditions in South Africa and abroad has been debated since the beginning of the twentieth century, with the result that two strands of competing paradigms - traditional and progressive - crystallised from the discussion. This article delineates the salient features of progressive education to prepare the ground for a comparison of outcomes-based education (OBE) in South Africa with education in the Netherlands and thereby...
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The twofold purpose of this study was to promote and facilitate awareness, detection and reporting of child abuse by improving the diagnostic ability of a group of pediatric care providers working in pediatric emergency rooms and to evaluate the impact of training on awareness, detection and reporting of child abuse. This study was conducted in three phases. In the first phase data were retrospectively collected for a three-month period prior to the study (May, June, and July 1996). In the...
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Namibia is a semi-arid country covering an area of 825,000 square kilometres in Southern Africa. It obtained independence on 21 March 1990 after a protracted war of liberation. The preliminary report of the 2001 Population and Housing Census recorded the total Namibian population at 1.8 million, 51 per cent of whom are women. Namibia’s annual population growth rate stands at 2.6 per cent. The country is divided into 13 political regions, characterised by differing stages of development,...
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(2005). South African students and other South African connections at the Royal College of Music in London between the end of the Anglo-Boer War and the formation of the Union of South Africa, 1902–1910. Muziki: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 26-47.
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Sudanese refugees currently constitute the largest single group of arrivals to Australia under the humanitarian immigration program. Many have been in camps, experienced trauma, lost members of their families, had minimal schooling and arrive with little or no literacy. Although many aspire to attend and to complete high school, they constitute an extremely high-risk group, which faces great challenges in terms of adaptation to the school system, acculturation, social adaptation,...
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The author sought to understand an African American English teacher's multicultural curriculum transformation and teaching in a suburban, mostly White, high school. Building on Banks's (1998) model of multicultural curriculum integration, the study focused on a context that might otherwise be ignored because there was not a large student‐of‐color representation in the school. The teacher in the study was operating at one of the highest levels of Banks's model, the transformational approach....
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Abstract The schooling dynamics and swimming behaviour of sardinella Sardinella maderensis and S. aurita schooling near the surface in Angolan waters were recorded visually, using a calibrated echo integration system and a 95kHz high resolution sonar on board RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen during three cruises; July 1996, May 1997 and May 1998. The mean packing density of the sardinella schools was about 3 fish m−3, but this figure varied by two orders of magnitude among the schools. There was a...
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Service learning is increasing in popularity in South Africa and has been conceptualised as occurring in the context of partnerships between higher education institutions and their local communities. However the relevance of the partnership model as a framework for service learning and sustainable community development within the South African context has not been critically examined and needs to be explored. This article aims to provide insight into the partnership and development...
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This paper focuses on an ongoing project in rural South Africa involving teachers and community health workers addressing their work with youth and HIV and AIDS. It outlines a photo-voice component of the project, highlighting in particular the design features of setting up such a project, and in particular addresses five emerging issues in visual methodologies: technical concerns, interpretation, ethical concerns, documentation and taking action. The paper concludes by looking at the ways...
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The revised ethical guidelines and principles of conduct for anthropologists in Southern Africa offer suggestions for the anthropologist's relations with and responsibility to research participants. Reflecting on the provision of sexuality education, I draw critical attention to the premises that underlie these guidelines, in particular those underpinning what the principles of conduct describe as a commitment to ‘local understandings of respect and dignity’. In doing so, the paper reflects...
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Extracted from text ... Postcolonial higher education in Zimbabwe: The University of Zimbabwe as a case study 1980?2004 Alois S. Mlambo* INTRODUCTION In 2004, higher education in Zimbabwe was in crisis. The once internationally respected educational system is collapsing, as evidenced by the dramatic decline of educational standards at Zimbabwe's largest and oldest university, the University of Zimbabwe, as a result of poor working conditions, inadequate funding and too much political...
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The study aimed at investigating environmental knowledge, attitudes and practices of teachers in secondary and high schools in Swaziland. A questionnaire survey was undertaken to collect the necessary data. The findings revealed that the teachers exhibited a high level of environmental knowledge and positive attitudes towards the environment. The teachers were also found to be assisting their schools to mount basic environmentally related activities such as clean-up campaigns and tree...