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Nutrition education is widely accepted as an important means of improving the health of young children in developing countries. Based on research carried out in Uganda in 1971-1972, this book shows how studies of changes in knowledge and attitudes can provide unique insights into both the educational process and its success or failure. It also demonstrates that the social circumstances of the individual families play an important part in determining the effects of the teaching. It...
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The main problem facing the Nigerian teachers is that Nigeria, like other developing countries of the world, is having her own share of problems with the use of English as a second language. This article will examine, first, the basic aspects of communication; second, the methodology used for instruction in Nigerian classrooms; third, why the children need English lessons most; fourth, the problems of not using English correctly and the choice of textbooks; finally, the problem of relating theory to practice.
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A formboard test was presented to 51 male (age 20-45) and 47 female (age 18-36) Ss having a college level education. The test attempted to follow a definite principle of construction in the six figures which comprise it. Each S was presented with a set of randomly arranged blocks and asked to put them where they belonged as quickly as possible. Three successively timed trials were given. Results indicate no significant sex differences in mean time on any of the trials; a trial-to-trail...
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The debate between those who see economic development and those who regard advances in medical technology as bearing major responsibility for mortality decline usually gives little attention to different stages of social change when economic or medical conditions are fixed. However Nigerian statistics analyzed here show that very different levels of child survivorship result from different levels of maternal education in an otherwise similar socioeconomic context and when there is equal...
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The debate between those who see economic development and those who regard advances in medical technology as bearing major responsibility for mortality decline usually gives little attention to different stages of social change when economic or medical conditions are fixed. However Nigerian statistics analyzed here show that very different levels of child survivorship result from different levels of maternal education in an otherwise similar socioeconomic context and when there is equal...
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The debate between those who see economic development and those who regard advances in medical technology as bearing major responsibility for mortality decline usually gives little attention to different stages of social change when economic or medical conditions are fixed. However Nigerian statistics analyzed here show that very different levels of child survivorship result from different levels of maternal education in an otherwise similar socioeconomic context and when there is equal...
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The debate between those who see economic development and those who regard advances in medical technology as bearing major responsibility for mortality decline usually gives little attention to different stages of social change when economic or medical conditions are fixed. However Nigerian statistics analyzed here show that very different levels of child survivorship result from different levels of maternal education in an otherwise similar socioeconomic context and when there is equal...
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The debate between those who see economic development and those who regard advances in medical technology as bearing major responsibility for mortality decline usually gives little attention to different stages of social change when economic or medical conditions are fixed. However Nigerian statistics analyzed here show that very different levels of child survivorship result from different levels of maternal education in an otherwise similar socioeconomic context and when there is equal...