The educator–learner relationship within the South African public school system : an educational–juridical perspective - Waal, Elda de (2000)
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Integrating population and family life education in agricultural extension in Egypt. - Wahba, A. G. (2000)
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Returns to education and regional earnings differentials in Egypt - Wahba, Jackline (RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2000)
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the determinants of labour market earnings in Egypt. Using Human Capital model, the determinants of regional earnings and returns to education by region are examined. The relative importance of individual and regional effects on earnings inequality is assessed. The main findings of the paper are: (i) the estimated rates of return to education increase with rising educational levels; this is different to the common pattern found in most developing countries. (ii) there are substantial variations in returns to education across regions. (iii) estimates point to the importance of credentials in the Egyptian labour market.
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Evaluating rainwater harvesting as a vulnerability reduction strategy that is relevant to sustainable development in rural, drought-prone Botswana - Walker, Colin Alexander (2000)
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Valued Segregated Schools for African American Children in the South, 1935-1969: A Review of Common Themes and Characteristics - Walker, Vanessa Siddle (Review of Educational Research, 2000)
For the last two decades, the published research on the history of education of African Americans in the south during the era of de jure segregation has shifted from a focus on the inequalities experienced by segregated schools to understanding the kind of education African American teachers, principals, and parents attempted to provide under externally restrictive circumstances. This review provides a synthesis of this line of research. Results indicate that exemplar), teachers, the curriculum and extracurricular activities, parental involvement, and the leadership of school principals were critical characteristics influencing the communities' perceptions of the schools. Additional research is needed that will explore student outcomes, variance within the characteristics, and external influences.
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Vocational education and training in Ethiopia: problems and prospects in human resource development - Wan-na, LI (2000)
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The Effect of Women Education on Contraceptive Use in Kenya, 1978-1998 - Wasao, Samson W.; Zulu, Eliya M. (2000)
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Focus on African American Medical Students - Webb, Carmen; Smith, Stephanie B.; Hawkins, Morris; Hill, Ann (2000)
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Globalisation of education policies : the extent of external influences on contemporary universal primary education policies in Papua New Guinea - Webster, Thomas (2000)
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Concealed preferences: parental attitudes to education and enrolment choice in rural Ethiopia. - Weir, Sharada (2000)
Parental attitudes regarding the value of education may determine whether some, none or all school-aged children in a household are enrolled and how much formal education they will eventually complete. To the extent that attitudes are important and can be adequately measured, they should explain household demand for schooling in the absence of constraints. However, the attitudes which people express may be inconsistent with their behaviour when faced with schooling choices for their own children. If attitudes do not explain actual enrolment, the causes of the discrepancy must be addressed. This paper attempts to measure attitudes, explain their formation and investigate the role of attitudes in the allocation of human capital. Parental attitudes toward schooling are generally to be favourable, and differences in attitudes help explain household enrolment decisions. However, attitudes alone cannot account for low enrolment in rural Ethiopia. High direct and opportunity costs of schooling also limit school participation in the face of credit constraints.
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Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of education. - Weir, Sharada; Knight, John (2000)
Schooling has been shown to provide substantial externality benefits by increasing farm output and shifting the production frontier outwards. This paper investigates the role of schooling at the householdand site-levels in the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. We find that household-level education is important to the timing of adoption but less crucial to the question of whether a household has ever adopted fertiliser, i.e., early innovators tend to be educated and to be copied by those who adopt later, obscuring the relationship between education and adoption at the household-level. By contrast, site-level education appears not to affect the timing of an innovation’s introduction to the site, but does influence the extent of diffusion. Thus, there are two externality effects: educated farmers are early innovators, providing an example which may be copied by lesseducated farmers; and educated farmers are better able to copy those who innovate first, enhancing diffusion of the new technology more widely within the site. Acknowledgements The UK Department for International Development (DFID), which supports policies, programmes and projects to promote international development, provided funds for this study as part of that objective. The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors alone. We thank Marcel Fafchamps and participants at a CSAE seminar for useful comments; the usual disclaimer applies. JEL Classification: D62, I2, O33, Q16
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Education Externalities in Rural Ethiopia: Evidence from Average and Stochastic Frontier Production Functions - Weir, Sharada; Knight, John (2000)
Education will have externality effects in agriculture if, in the course of conducting their own private economic activities, educated farmers raise the productivity of uneducated farmers with whom they come into contact. This paper seeks to determine the potential size and source of such benefits for rural areas of Ethiopia. Average and stochastic frontier production function methodologies are employed to measure productivity and efficiency of farmers. In each case, internal and external returns to schooling are compared. We find that there are substantial and significant externality benefits of education in terms of higher average farm output and a shifting outwards of the production frontier. External benefits of schooling may be several times as high as internal benefits in this regard. However, we are unable to find any evidence of externality benefits to schooling in terms of improvements in technological efficiency in the use of a given technology. This suggests that the source of externalities to schooling is in the adoption and spread of innovations, which shift out the production frontier. Acknowledgements The UK Department for International Development (DFID), which supports policies, programmes and projects to promote international development, provided funds for this study as part of that objective. The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors alone. We thank Marcel Fafchamps and participants at a CSAE seminar for useful comments; the usual disclaimer applies.
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Mapping and Evaluation of Pollution in Mine Environments in Southern Africa using GIS and EMS - Weissenstein, K.; Villiers, A. B. de; Fruehauf, Manfred; Sinkala, T.; Coetzee, Koos; Freyer, K.; König, W.; Warthemann, Guido (2000)
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Research on equitable criteria for funding and effective financial management for the provincial English language teaching (PELT) resource centres in Mozambique. - Welo, Barnabe Paulo. (2000)
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Largest known historical eruption in Africa: Dubbi volcano, Eritrea, 1861 - Wiart, Pierre; Oppenheimer, Clive (Geology, 2000)
Research Article| April 01, 2000 Largest known historical eruption in Africa: Dubbi volcano, Eritrea, 1861 Pierre Wiart; Pierre Wiart 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Clive Oppenheimer Clive Oppenheimer 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pierre Wiart 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK Clive Oppenheimer 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 09 Aug 1999 Revision Received: 17 Dec 1999 Accepted: 20 Dec 1999 First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2682 Print ISSN: 0091-7613 Geological Society of America Geology (2000) 28 (4): 291–294. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<291:LKHEIA>2.0.CO;2 Article history Received: 09 Aug 1999 Revision Received: 17 Dec 1999 Accepted: 20 Dec 1999 First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Pierre Wiart, Clive Oppenheimer; Largest known historical eruption in Africa: Dubbi volcano, Eritrea, 1861. Geology 2000;; 28 (4): 291–294. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<291:LKHEIA>2.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract Dubbi volcano, located in the northeast part of the Afar triangle, erupted explosively in May 1861, showering maritime traffic in the Red Sea with pumice and plunging coastal settlements into darkness. Earthquakes associated with the opening phase of the eruption were felt in Yemen, and explosions were heard as far as Massawa, 330 km distant. More than 100 local inhabitants were reported killed, possibly as a result of pyroclastic flow emplacement. By October 1861, activity switched to basaltic fire-fountaining focused along a 4-km-long summit fissure that fed several lava flows that traveled as far as 22 km. We present a reconstruction of this unusual explosive and effusive eruption sequence based on interpretation of contemporary accounts, analysis of satellite imagery, field work, and laboratory geochemistry. The volume of lava flows alone, 3.5 km3, makes this the largest reported historical eruption in Africa. An anomalously cold Northern Hemisphere summer in 1862, recorded in tree-ring records, could be the result of Dubbi's sulfate aerosol veil. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.
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Eruptive history of Dubbi volcano, northeast Afar (Eritrea), revealed by optical and SAR image interpretation - Wiart, Pierre; Oppenheimer, Clive; Francis, P. W. (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2000)
A study of the remote Dubbi volcano, located in the northeastern part of the Afar triangle, Eritrea, was carried out using JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery. It investigated the last known eruption of Dubbi volcano in 1861, the only volcano in Afar for which historical reports indicate a major explosive eruption. Various image processing techniques were tested and compared in order to map different volcanic units, including effusive and explosive products. Principal component analysis and optical-SAR fusion were found to be useful to determine the extent of the 1861 pumice deposits surrounding the volcano. SAR imagery revealed old lava flows buried below tephra deposits, emphasizing the ground penetrating property of the L-band (HH polarization). The interpretation obtained from satellite imagery was cross-checked with sparse historical testimonies and available ground-truth data. Two scenarios are proposed for the 1861 eruptive sequences in order to estimate the volumes of lava flows erupted and the timing of explosive and effusive activity. Identified as a bimodal basaltic-trachytic eruption, with a minimum volume of 1.2 km3 of hawaiite lava and a minimum area of 70 km2 of trachytic pumice, it represents the largest known historic eruption in the Afar triangle. This paper raises the issue of the potential volcanic hazards posed by Dubbi, which concern both the local population and the maritime traffic using the strategic route of the Red Sea.
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Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformations in Egypt - Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky (Political Science Quarterly, 2000)
Journal Article Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformations in Egypt Get access Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformations in Egypt by Gregory Starrett. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998. 324 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.00. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham Carrie Rosefsky Wickham Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 1, Spring 2000, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658067 Published: 15 February 2013
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Environmental pollution in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria : a case for direct equity participation - Wigwe, Joyce C. (2000)
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Building a National Focus for Student Exchange with Africa: The National Consortium for Study in Africa - Wiley, David; Metzler, John (African Issues, 2000)
The National Consortium for Study in Africa (NCSA) grew out of a concern about the paucity of high-quality study-abroad opportunities in Africa for North American undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Africa is the second largest continent in geographic size and the ancestral home of 15 percent of the U.S. population, a demographic segment that has lived in the United States longer than most European immigrants. As a result, much of American art, music, language, and culture has derived from Africa and the Afro-Caribbean cultures. Africa also is an important and growing source of U.S. trade, which is larger than that of all the Commonwealth of Independent States of eastern Europe. In spite of the country’s prominence, less than 4 percent of North American students who study abroad enroll for study in Africa.
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Building a National Focus for Student Exchange with Africa: The National Consortium for Study in Africa - Wiley, David; Metzler, John J. (African Issues, 2000)
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Government's coordination of external aid to education : the case of Namibia - Williams, Peter (2000)
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'A Clearing in the Bush': Teaching South African Women's Writing - Wisker, Gina (Innovations in Education and Training International, 2000)
This essay takes its title from a short story by Zoe Wicomb (1987), so as to begin to locate and find a way of expressing the experiences of reading, discussing and teaching a selection of South African women's writing to student groups in the UK. This paper looks specifically at teaching South African women's writing on a 'Black and Asian women's writing'module, with some reference to other classes in which South African women's writing has been part of this study. In doing so, post-colonial and feminist critical practices are usefully integrated with the learning theories of phenomenography and experiential learning in order to better explore the developing learning experience. From where we are located, it has been important to find our own voices with which to articulate our responses to these texts. Our own locus of experience, our 'clearing in the bush' is something we have grown gradually to recognize and identify. It is hoped that we have been learning to appreciate the writings available to us without translating them into the discourse of the colonial, nor filling them up with our own particular meanings and the interpretations of a white feminist criticism. The post-colonial imaginary, and the discourses available to us have meshed with our own experiences as students and teacher, learners and readers in the process.
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'A good education sets up a divine discontent': the contribution of St Peter's School to black South African autobiography - Woeber, Catherine (2000)
This thesis explores in empirical fashion the contribution made by St Peter's Secondary School to South African literary history. It takes as its starting point the phenomenon of the first black autobiographies having been published within a ten-year period from 1954 to 1963, with all but one of the male writers receiving at least part of their post-primary schooling at St Peter's School in Johannesburg. Among the texts, repositioned here within their educational context, are Tell Freedom by Peter Abrahams, Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele, Road to Ghana by Alfred Hutchinson, and Chocolates for My Wife by Todd Matshikiza. The thesis examines the educational milieu of the inter-war years in the Transvaal over and against education in the other provinces of the Union, the Anglo-Catholic ethos of the Community of the Resurrection who established and ran the school, the pedagogical environment of St Peter's School, and the autobiographical texts themselves, in order to plot the course which the autobiographers' subsequent lives took as they wrote back to the education which had both liberated and shackled them. It equipped them far in advance of the opportunities available to them under the colour bar, necessitating exile, even as it colonised their minds in a way perhaps spared those who never attended school, requiring a continual reassessment of their identity over time. The thesis argues that their Western education was crucial in the development of their hybrid identity, what Es'kia Mphahlele has termed `the dialogue of two selves', which was in each case worked out through an autobiography. The typical, if simplified, trajectory is an enthusiastic espousal of the culture of the West encountered in their schooling at St Peter's, and then a rejection out of a sense of betrayal in favour of Africa, eventually leading to a synthesis of the two. The thesis concludes that it was the emphasis on all-round education and character formation, in the British boarding school tradition, with its thrust of sacrifice and service, which helped to fashion the strong belief systems of
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Making human resource development work: a case study on internal training within the Eastern Cape textile industry, South Africa - Wood, Geoffrey; Sella, Ronit (Human Resource Development International, 2000)
This paper represents a case study on an internal human resource development initiative, based around the experience of a textile firm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It highlights some of the limits and possibilities of such training in sectors facing particularly acute crises of competitiveness operating in transitional economies.
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Education for a culture of peace in Nigeria : the role of a women's development NGO - Yesufu, Adenike Olufunmilayo (2000)
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Ongoing colonial legacy : contemporary education beliefs and practices in Papua New Guinea - Young, Kathryn A. (2000)
In the late 1980's, a realisation that the western education system adopted in Papua New Guinea at the time of Independence had failed to serve the nation well, led to a period of education reform. How PNG has sought to come to terms with associated issues and chalenges are explored. The findings reveal much about the capacity of individuals and institutions to respond to a post-colonial world.
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The integration of the new education legislation into the South African clothing industry. - Young, Nicola O (2000)
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STD's Prevalence and Representations of AIDS Among University Students of Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Sao Tome: An Untangile Struggle Among Others, Why Worry? - Yourad, M.V.; Torgal, Jorge (2000)
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A descriptive study of the First Cycle English Test (FCET) for Burkina Faso secondary schools - Zabramba, Joachim (2000)
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Teachers' and students' perspectives of learning difficulties in mathematics in Addis Ababa elementary schools: Ethiopia - Zeleke, Seleshi (2000)
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When a model learns a new language: the DRC generalizes to German - Ziegler, Johannes C.; Perry, Conrad; Coltheart, Max (European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2000)
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Values Expressed by Secondary School Teachers and University Students in Namibia - Zimba, Roderick F. (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2000)
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African Perspectives on Programs for North American Students in Africa: The Experience of the University of Zimbabwe - Zinyemba, Ranga (African issues (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2000)
About three and half months before I left for Zimbabwe, I went to one of those parties where you only know the friend you came with. I ended up talking to a well-traveled guy wearing a striped wool scarf. At some point, I mentioned I was leaving for Zimbabwe in not so very long. This guy looked straight at me, his eyes big with suspicion over the stripes, and asked me exactly what good I thought the trip would do me. So I told him I was going to study women and literature; I outlined my whole approved proposal. And I told him what a great opportunity it would be. But he was looking more and more disdainful, and I mumbled to a stop.
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African Perspectives on Programs for North American Students in Africa: The Experience of the University of Zimbabwe - Zinyemba, Ranga (African issues (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2000)
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African reality and prescription in the education sector - 笹岡, 雄一; 国際開発高等教育機構; 国際開発高等教育機構国際開発研究センター (2000)
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