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This research was set out to explore and analyze the status of integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into teacher education and development programs in the context of a developing country, Eritrea. It based its investigation on the requirements of teacher professionalism in contemporary learning environments, where teachers are expected to develop the required proficiency for effectively integrating technology, pedagogy and content knowledge into their teaching so as...

Rehabilitation and reformation of offenders is one of the core functions of the Kenya Prisons Service. Kenya Prisons service has various modules of training that make the staff more effective and professional in carrying out their mandate of securing prisoners for the purpose of rehabilitation and reintegration back into society. Learning strategies can open up opportunities for increase in participation in formal and vocational training, broaden prisoner’s academic horizons and provide a...

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Caregivers of children with disabilities are at increased risk of experiencing interpersonal violence and its consequences; however, there is limited research targeting this population. This problem is understudied in Sub-Saharan Africa. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: Study examines intimate partner violence and depression among men and women caregivers of children with disabilities. Study findings showed that while a higher proportion of women...

Composition writing helps learners to acquire writing skills. However, students’ performance in Kiswahili composition at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination shows that national performance has been fluctuating with a mean of 14.20 in 2008, 15.40 in 2009, 14.32 in 2010, 16.43 in 2011 and 10.43 in 2012out of 40 marks. From year 2008 to 2012, Kisumu West Sub-County students’ performance in the Joint Evaluation Test (JET) shows that performance was lower compared to...

The paper reports baseline data on the current state of continuing professional development (CPD) in public university libraries in Uganda. The study seeks to determine the types of CPD activities, provision of CPD, reasons for pursuing CPD and challenges. A social survey method of research was adopted and an online questionnaire was used to collect data from librarians working in five public university libraries in Uganda. The survey results show that librarians participate in different CPD...

Background: This study assessed the nutritional knowledge, dietary habits and nutritional status of adult diabetic patients attending teaching hospitals in Lagos State, Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among adult diabetic patients attending the out-patient clinics of the two Teaching Hospitals in Lagos. Respondents were recruited from the clinics consecutively until the desired sample size (342) was obtained. A pre-tested interviewer-administered questionnaire was...

This dissertation follows the transformation of the Egyptian university student mobilizations and other forms of political action. Interviews and observation of a variety of student groups in the period between 2011 and 2015 pave the way to put in perspective the historical conception of typical student political action; to account for the diverse forms, levels and goals of student organization and mobilization; and to situate them in line with the changes in the higher education system and...

Thi s st ud y was ca rri e d o ut t o id e nti fy th e a d a pt at i o n m eas ur es empl oye d by th e fa rm e r s and th e determ inat io n of t h e p atter n of c r o p p r o du ct i o n as a res ult o f p e r ce i ve d effe ct of c lim ate ch a n ge. Both simple and multi stage random sampling were used to select 1 20 respondents from the 15 wards making up the local government. Pea r so n Pr o duct Mom ent C orr e lati o n was u sed to d eterm in e t h e re l a ti o n s hip b etwee n th...

<p>The study aims to promote relevant and effective environmental education (EE) through extracurricular clubs. For this, we studied the state of play of environmental activities (EA) carried out by 48 environmental clubs belonging to urban and rural areas of the Regional Academy of Education Fez-Meknes, Morocco. These extracurricular environmental clubs remain so far without formal environmental education programs. In this study, we identified the bulk of programs offered by...

The Abbay River Basin, which originates in Ethiopia, is a major tributary and main source of the Nile River Basin. Land cover and vegetation in the Abbay River Basin is highly susceptible to climate change. This study was conducted to investigate the trends of climate change for a period of thirty-six years (1980–2016) within selected stations of the basin by using the innovative trend analysis method, Mann–Kendall test, and Sen’s slope estimator test to investigate the mean annual...

Background: The positive behaviour support (PBS) model is a model of response to address challenging behaviours of learners in schools that has proven to be effective in developed countries. Given its human rights and functional contextualism lens, the PBS model is particularly relevant to and of value within the South African context.Aim: Since learner challenging behaviours are a key contributory factor to learner exclusion in schools, an inclusive education module on the PBS model was...

This study examined public secondary schools teachers’ tasks and their classroom job performance in Edo central school district, Nigeria. With a total of 252 research participants and two adapted instruments—Teachers’ Task Questionnaire (TETAQ) and Teachers’ Class Performance Questionnaire (TECLAPEQ)—the study attempted to find out how teachers’ tasks associated with or impacted their classroom job performance. Data generated were analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient...

The present study revisits the issue of gender positioning within the visual discourse of three Algerian secondary education English textbooks.In order to get an informed view about gender representation in these materials, it was deemed necessary to combine the outcomes of theoretical critical accounts with language teachers´ potential interpretations of gender bias within the textbooks.First, the selected visual corpus was scrutinized for gender bias through critical image analysis.The...

The objective of this study was to investigate and recognise teachers’ perceptions regarding the most significant difficulties faced by the programme for integrating students with disabilities into regular classes in Bethlehem; in particular, perspectives of the current situation and the ideal scenario were obtained. A descriptive methodology was utilised, and the parameters of reliability and validity were applied to the elaboration of a survey. The results were organised in accordance with...

Background: The main source of vitamin D from the human skin and synthetized by violets B rays emitted by the sun. Environmental factors such us season, climate change, diets, and pollution, are therefore likely to inuence the levels on vitamin D. Furthermore, High frequency of vitamin D deciency is now observed among HIVinfected patients. There is no published data about HIV and Vitamin D despite few scientic articles on HIV and vitamin D status reported by other African countries....