Instructional Leadership and Internal Efficiency of Private Secondary Schools in Dar Es Salaam Region, Tanzania - Wanjiku, Kinyanjui Helina (2005)
The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of manager's instructional leadership role on internal efficiency of private secondary schools in Oar es Salaam region, Tanzania. Specifically, the study sought to find out how the managers carry out and perceive their roles, how the school community perceive managers roles, how the manager relates with the school community and to investigate the problems encountered by the managers in their instructional leadership role. Managers delegated most of their duties to other administrators but acted as counsellors to teachers. Some teachers had a negative attitude towards class supervision while managers had a positive attitude but majority did not engage in it. Most parents were actively involved in school activities. In schools with good Data collection techniques included; documentary reviews, questionnaires,interviews and observation. The findings of the study indicated that managers, teachers and students view the instructional leadership role of the manager as crucial in improving the internal efficiency of the school. According to the managers, their duties included: bridging the gap between the school and the community, financial controllers, supervisors, organisers of teaching and learning systems, organisers of staff development programmes, role models and providers of physical facilities. Teachers viewed managers as leaders responsible for administrative and curricular matters while students viewed managers as the planners and decision makers in the school. performance in national examinations, the managers were greatly involved in instructional matters. The findings revealed that, lack of adequate funds in schools hindered instructional leadership role of the manager. Majority of the schools had shortages of textbooks, curricular materials and physical facilities. Some schools had inadequate classrooms resulting to morning and afternoon sessions. Most schools had no staff development programmes. School owners controlled the budget and school decisions. The researcher recommended that although delegation is necessary in all organisations, managers should know what to delegate and what not to delegate. They should avoid delegating management work that they can do by virtue of their training, qualifications, authority and judgment. The manager and the parent community could look for ways to generate additional income to fees in order to achieve school goals and needs depending on the location of school and facilities. Since managers are educators and more knowledgeable on academic issues, the school owners should give them authority in making and implementing decisions on instructional matters. Also, the government should organize training for all educational managers on key areas in educational administration.
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The causes of drug use among secondary school students in Kenya : a case study of secondary schools in Nairobi province - Wanyama, Everlyne N (2005)
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Exploring vocational rehabilitation outcomes of African Americans with emotional and behavioral disabilities: a national investigation - Ware, Sonya M (2005)
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The challenges of pre-vocational education in colonial and post independent Kenya - Wasike, Nabiswa M. (2005)
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Effects of free primary education on pupils' participation in primary schools in Bumula division, Bungoma district, Kenya - Waswa, Namunga Nick (2005)
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Training in communication and development in Papua New Guinea : assessing the impact of a new approach at Divine Word University - Watson, Amanda H. A. (2005)
Up until recently, the training provided by the Communication Arts Department at Divine Word University was practical and vocational, focusing on media reporting, and neglecting any examination of communication for development. There was, therefore, a need to incorporate the paradigm of communication for sustainable development into the curriculum. If good practice is instilled amongst students at the training level, then this may evolve into positive development outcomes for Papua New Guinea. This paper follows on from previous research into the curriculum of the Communication Arts Department at Divine Word University in Papua New Guinea. This prior research determined a need for a stronger academic component of the courses offered, and more emphasis on development and communication issues. A detailed case study will explore the implementation of a course on communication and development for degree students. This course is the central theoretical module in a new academic strand that focuses on development and the wider context of knowledge building and critical thinking in communication training. The paper will assess the course's impact on the attitudes of students, with regard to development, and future career paths.
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Sociocultural Barriers to the Education of Kenyan Girls: Gender Stereotyping and Sexual Violence in Secondary Schools - Webster, Kate L. (2005)
Gender-based disparities in education are among the most troubling issues affecting women’s lives in African countries today. Women’s education is inextricably linked to economic development, national unity, and social progress and is considered a basic human right, yet the educational attainment of women continues to lag behind that of men throughout most African countries. Addressing the issue of the gender gap in education, researchers have often utilized cross-national data and have been concerned primarily with increasing African girls’ enrollments in primary and secondary schools, thereby increasing girls’ access to some of the benefits to education.
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Post-Basic Education and Poverty in Tanzania. Post-Basic Education and TrainingWorking Paper Series - Nº1 - Wedgewood, R. (2005)
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The Relationship between Literacy and ower: The Case of Literacy Practices in and out of School in Karagwe, Tanzania - Wedin, Åsa (2005)
Abstract LITERACY AND POWER IN TANZANIA AND SWEDEN In my research I focus on literacy as a socially and culturally situated practise. This perspective on literacy has been mainly developed within ...
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Holocene African droughts relate to eastern equatorial Atlantic cooling - Weldeab, Syee; Schneider, Robert; Kölling, Martin; Wefer, Gerold (Geology (Boulder, Colo.), 2005)
Research Article| December 01, 2005 Holocene African droughts relate to eastern equatorial Atlantic cooling Syee Weldeab; Syee Weldeab 1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Center Ocean Margins, Bremen University, Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Ralph R. Schneider; Ralph R. Schneider 2Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Meyn-Strasse 10, 24118 Kiel, Germany Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Martin Kölling; Martin Kölling 3Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Center Ocean Margins, Bremen University, Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Gerold Wefer Gerold Wefer 3Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Center Ocean Margins, Bremen University, Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Geology (2005) 33 (12): 981–984. https://doi.org/10.1130/G21874.1 Article history received: 17 May 2005 rev-recd: 18 Aug 2005 accepted: 19 Aug 2005 first online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Syee Weldeab, Ralph R. Schneider, Martin Kölling, Gerold Wefer; Holocene African droughts relate to eastern equatorial Atlantic cooling. Geology 2005;; 33 (12): 981–984. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G21874.1 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 Here we present evidence that the Holocene African monsoon system (AMS) varied in response to the eastern equatorial Atlantic sea-surface temperature (SST). Several short-term episodes of decreased moisture availability as a result of low eastern equatorial Atlantic SST are suggested by planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios. These episodes promoted a weakening of the AMS and thus determined the timing and intensity of arid periods. Local sea-surface salinities also reveal regional patterns of precipitation in equatorial western Africa. The high eastern equatorial Atlantic SSTs occur in concert with seasonally increased insolation at low latitudes, suggesting a strong response of African monsoonal precipitation to oceanic conditions at low latitudes. 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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Air Pollution Epidemiological Studies in South Africa: Need for Freshening Up - Wichmann, Janine; Voyi, Kuku (Reviews on environmental health, 2005)
The results of epidemiologic studies obtained in developed countries cannot be extrapolated with complete confidence to developing countries. The objectives of this review were to examine the evidence from local studies for associations between air pollution and adverse health along with a critical review for methodologic limitations. The literature search strategy and selection criteria involved a MEDLINE search up to June 2005. Of 267 journal articles found, 14 focused on air pollution epidemiology (excluding active smoking and internal dose as a proxy for health outcomes). Two studies were also located by word of mouth or through the references from the selected studies. The local studies provide some evidence of an association with a range of serious and common health problems. No study established an exposure-response curve for the criteria pollutants carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, lead, and ozone. Therefore, using the results of such studies in risk-assessment is impossible. The studies were fraught with systematic and random errors, which limit their validity and precision. We recommend conducting a quantitative intervention study with an analytical study design in all major cities in the countries where residents are still using dirty fuels for cooking, lighting, and space heating. Future studies must involve national and international multidisciplinary stakeholders and must be planned well in advance.
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Nonracialism as an Educational and World View: Lessons from South African Teachers - Wieder, Alan (Cornell Law Review, 2005)
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Intercultural Technology Education for Preservice Teachers in Namibia and New Jersey - Wilder, Hilary; Malone, Todd (Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 2005)
This case study of current practice describes a virtual cross-cultural collaboration in the development of an undergraduate teacher preparation course in educational technology. In an effort to increase the cross-cultural and technological awareness necessary for 21st-century teachers, the authors collaborated on the design and development of an online course that was delivered to preservice teachers in the US and Namibia. All course content was designed as reusable learning objects, with material and assignments being vetted by authors in both Namibia and the US to minimize cultural bias and to ensure relevance and appropriateness for students in both countries. This paper describes design and ethical issues and related decisions during the course development and the first semester of delivery online. During fall 2004 students from William Paterson University in New Jersey and four colleges of education in Windhoek, Rundu, Ongwediva, and Caprivi in Namibia took the course together.
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Creating an Active Learning Environment in Multicultural Classrooms - Nigeria - Wile, J. M.; Bowser, Jennifer (2005)
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National Drought Policies: Lessons Learned from Australia, South Africa, and the United States - Wilhite, Donald A.; Botterill, Linda Courtenay; Monnik, Karl (2005)
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A qualitative investigation of the special education identification, referral, and placement process: its relationship to the over representation of African American males in high incidence programs in an urban school system - Williams, Sarah E. (2005)
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An analysis of its significance in journalism education at African universities - Wimmer, Jeffrey; Wolf, Susanne (2005)
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World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE), Stellenbosch, South Africa - Wishart, Jocelyn; Ramsden, AJ; McFarlane, AE (2005)
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Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: Southern Red Sea, Ethiopia - Wolfenden, E.; Ebinger, C. J.; Yirgu, Gezahegn; Renne, Paul R.; Kelley, Simon P. (Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2005)
Research Article| July 01, 2005 Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: Southern Red Sea, Ethiopia Ellen Wolfenden; Ellen Wolfenden 1Geology Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Cynthia Ebinger; Cynthia Ebinger 1Geology Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Gezahegn Yirgu; Gezahegn Yirgu 2Department of Geology and Geophysics, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Paul R. Renne; Paul R. Renne 3Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709 and Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Simon P. Kelley Simon P. Kelley 4Geology Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ellen Wolfenden 1Geology Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Cynthia Ebinger 1Geology Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Gezahegn Yirgu 2Department of Geology and Geophysics, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Paul R. Renne 3Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709 and Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Simon P. Kelley 4Geology Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA, UK Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 03 Nov 2003 Revision Received: 19 Aug 2004 Accepted: 31 Aug 2004 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2674 Print ISSN: 0016-7606 Geological Society of America GSA Bulletin (2005) 117 (7-8): 846–864. https://doi.org/10.1130/B25516.1 Article history Received: 03 Nov 2003 Revision Received: 19 Aug 2004 Accepted: 31 Aug 2004 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Ellen Wolfenden, Cynthia Ebinger, Gezahegn Yirgu, Paul R. Renne, Simon P. Kelley; Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: Southern Red Sea, Ethiopia. GSA Bulletin 2005;; 117 (7-8): 846–864. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B25516.1 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 SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract The process of strain localization as rifting proceeds to continental breakup is readily observed along the Oligocene-Recent southern Red Sea rift, yet much of the Red Sea margin in Ethiopia remains unmapped. Rifting initiated above or near a mantle plume, which is marked by the Eo-Oligocene Ethiopia-Yemen flood basalt province. Objectives of this field, remote sensing, and geochronology study are to establish a structural and stratigraphic framework for the southernmost Red Sea passive margin using new and existing 40Ar/39Ar age data along 6 transects. We present new sketch geological maps and cross sections to document the timing of extension in relation to magmatism and its variation along strike. These new data are integrated with plate kinematic, geological, and geophysical data to present a model for evolution of the southern Red Sea margin. Faults commonly marked by eruptive centers initiated between 29 and 26 Ma, coincident with rifting in the Gulf of Aden. The Red Sea rift terminated at 10°N until linkage of the Main Ethiopian rift and southern Red Sea occurred at ca. 11 Ma. Rifting progressed in three distinct stages; each new phase saw a marked change in the style of volcanism and a narrowing of the locus of extension. Stage 1 rhyolites were emplaced from 29 to 26 Ma in basins bounded by a steep border fault system. Between 25 and 20 Ma, strain localized to narrow zones of basaltic fissural eruptions and minor faulting. Stage 2 faults and eruptive centers are located ∼50 km to the east of the border faults, and they comprise flows spanning at least 16–7 Ma. After ca. 7 Ma, the locus of strain again migrated eastward (Stage 3). Strain in Stage 3 was largely accommodated by dike injection. Plate reconstructions predict high stretching factors (β ∼3) in the southern Red Sea, suggesting that Stages 2 and 3 mark the onset of formation of crust transitional between oceanic and continental. 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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Service Learning Opportunities for University Students in a Community Collaborative Project Provide at-risk Children with Literacy Development through African Drumming - Woodward, Sheila C. (2005)
Incorporating service learning into university courses will be examined in this paper, exhibiting a model that engages students in a community collaborative project. The demonstrated project aims to develop literacy skills in elementary school children through musical experience. While the children benefit from the joys and enrichment of musical learning, they learn to read in a program that, throughout the lesson, involves books, story telling, rhymes, children's poetry, songs, flashcards, visuals, and reading aloud, all integrated into activities that involve singing and performing on African percussion instruments, including djembe drums, shekeres, agogo bells, etc. Furthermore, the program aims not only to benefit at-risk children, but also to provide service-learning opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, they learn innovative techniques for using active music making as a means to improving literacy skills. Through both quantitative and qualitative methods, the research examines the program's success in developing the children's literacy and musical skills and investigates the learning outcomes for the students.
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Food for Starved Minds: The Mobilization of African-Americans for Education - Worgs, Donn (2005)
From the days of their enslavement to the present, African-Americans have expressed the belief that education could and would play a key role in their eventual liberation. While various definitions of liberation have been espoused over time and across ideological groupings, the idea that education wields great power in the ongoing struggle to overcome oppressive conditions has been surprisingly consistent. The intensity of this belief has been illustrated by the enslaved African-Americans who risked their lives to learn to read, the impoverished communities that pooled their resources to build schools, the parents who organized to reform public schools, and even the black revolutionary groups that established their own schools. Mobilization for education has been an ever-present element of African-American political action.
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School exclusion and transition into adulthood in African-Caribbean communities - Wright, CY; Germán, Gabriel; John, G; Standen, Penny; Patel, Tina (2005)
The report uses the young people’s own accounts to examine their exclusion and transition. It looks at issues such as how identity is formed, perceived self esteem, employment prospects, aspirations, and the young people’s relationship with their families. The roles of community, the social network and family in helping young people to cope with exclusion and providing support are explored, and methods of working with young people are discussed. The report concludes by reflecting on these methods and examining the implications for policy; in particular the importance of community and individual support in helping young black people excluded from school.
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Performativity in higher education transformation in South Africa - Wyk, Berte van (South African journal of higher education, 2005)
Since 1994, higher education transformation in South Africa had a significant break with apartheid education policy. This article explores constitutive meanings of higher education transformation such as equity and redress, critical inquiry, communicative praxis and citizenship in relation to institutional plans of three universities in the Western Cape province, namely Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Western Cape. This article shows that these higher education institutions are overwhelmingly orientated towards achieving performance indicators as announced in their institutional plans, in other words, there is an emphasis on performativity. I argue that the excessive use of performance indicators could undermine deep higher education transformation. Unless universities are also prepared to transform in an atmosphere of lIgubuntul/Ig (literally `African humanness and dignity') they have little chance of realising constitutive meanings of higher education transformation which in turn could lead to sham transformation.
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The Study on International Transplanting and Strategy for Modernization of Higher Education in Ghana - Xu, Changqing (Studies In Foreign Education, 2005)
The higher education of Ghana has come into being through several times reformation under the background of the international transplantation. The presentations of transplanting from developed countries are as follows:the system of management,the modes of management,the teaching language and so on. Since the national independence from the imperialism,the higher education of Ghana has undergone three reformations in which each times carried out by different development strategies. Through these reformations,Ghana has set up the advanced higher education system in the southern Africa.
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|ldquo;Traditions|rdquo; and Cultural Production Character Education at the Achimota School in Colonial Ghana - Yamada, Shoko (Afurika kenkyū, 2005)
The paper investigates the educational philosophy and practices of Achimota School, which was established in colonial Ghana in 1927 as the governmental model school of leadership education. Achimota's education aimed at developing the character of leader who is ‘western in the intellectual attitude, but remained African in sympathy’. To fulfil this objective, Achimota developed its curriculum according to the socio-cultural background of African students, while trying to provide the finest education available at the British Public Schools. The former part of the paper untangles the discourse in the process of defining ‘African tradition’ to be taught at Achimota. In fact, tradition was never a fixed set of activities, but diverse norms and practices of different ethnic groups which were constantly changing as practiced. By participating in the process of codifying “tradition” for Achimota, various groups of people such as colonial officials, missionaries, European educationists, traditional chiefs and African nationalists were involved in inventing a set of practices called “tradition”. The paper also reviews educational ideas which were popular in Europe and America of the period and seems to have become the philosophical stimulants of Achimota education. These includes: American progressive education, American black industrial education, and British Victorian moralism in education. Among them, in this paper, the author will focus on the influence of British Victorian moralism, especially that of Public Schools. Then, the last part describes the Achimota education experienced by students, which was a mixed product of two traditions-British public school tradition and ‘African tradition’. While the School tried to assimilate Africans to British Public School norms and European civilization, it also devoted a great deal of energy to adapt to the African ‘tradition’. Even so, what actually happened was the creation of new Achimota culture which picked essences from different ‘traditions’ and remoulded them.
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Socio-Moralist Vocationalism and Public Aspirations: Secondary Education Policies in Colonial and Present-Day Ghana - Yamada, Shoko M. (Africa Today, 2005)
This paper examines the socio-moralistic justification of vocational education in colonial and contemporary Ghana. In the international arena, vocational education has been justified in various ways (mostly in economic terms), but in Ghana, the primary reason for introducing vocational education has always been the development of socially appropriate character, as a means of halting social problems such as urban migration and unemployment. The consistent socio-moralism of vocational education has been met with persistent public aspirations for academic and longer education. The government has attempted to solve social problems by curricular change, but the causes of the problems are in labor structure and the incentive mechanism of schooling.
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Radiation efficiency and apparent stress of small earthquakes in a South African gold mine - Yamada, Takuji (2005)
Nine triaxial borehole accelerometers were installed within 200 m along a 2650‐m‐deep haulage tunnel in the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa. We analyzed the high sample rate recordings (15 kHz) to determine source parameters of small earthquakes in the mine. To study the source processes, we carried out multiple time window waveform inversions for five larger events (0.8 < M < 1.4) that occurred within 150 m of the stations. From the inversion results we could determine the fault planes for all five events and estimate the range of rupture speed. We can conclude that rupture speeds were faster than 2.5 km/s (65% of the shear wave velocity). The radiation efficiency is written as a function of the rupture speed and becomes greater with increasing rupture speed. This study indicates that radiation efficiencies of small earthquakes in the South African gold mine are almost equal to those of larger natural earthquakes. We also calculated radiated seismic energies and static stress drops of the five events to investigate their apparent stresses. Apparent stresses of the five events were from 1 to 10 MPa and static stress drops were 1 to 20 MPa. We found that the source parameters (rupture speed, apparent stress, radiation efficiency, and static stress drop) did not largely differ from values for larger natural earthquakes. This suggests that the dynamic rupture processes of these small events were similar to those of the larger natural earthquakes.
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Community, Inequality, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from School Financing in South Africa - Yamauchi, Futoshi; Mishiyama, Shinichi (RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2005)
To examine how local income distribution affects both a community's ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household income increase school fees, inequality inhousehold income (standard deviation) decreases school fees, which indicates that the lower tail of income distribution pulls down school fees. Second, an increase in school fees significantly improves school quality, decreasing the learner-educator ratio and increasing the number of nonsubsidized educators. The result is consistent with (1) strategic behavior of the low-income group and (2) optimal school fee determination with incomplete interhousehold income transfers. Empirical results and simulations demonstrate the possibility that income and asset inequality may reduce the quality of public goods, decreasing human capital and income growth for the next generation. Authors' Abstract
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Education et conflit en Afrique de l'Ouest : conséquences du conflit ivoirien sur l'éducation dans les pays limitrophes : un état des lieux au Burkina Faso, Mali et Ghana : rapport final - Yaro, Y.; Pilon, Marc (2005)
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HIV/AIDS information and services: The situation experienced by adolescents with disabilities in Rwanda and Uganda - Yousafzai, Aisha K.; Edwards, Katie M.; D'Allesandro, C.; Lindstrom, Lauren (Disability and Rehabilitation, 2005)
The study had two aims: (2) To explore whether knowledge about HIV and AIDS was similar among adolescents with disabilities compared with their non-disabled peers; and (2) To determine factors which may increase vulnerability of disabled adolescents to HIV infection and/or inappropriate access to HIV-related services.A qualitative study using focus group discussions and sem-structured interviews was conducted with purposefully selected participants in Rwanda and Uganda. The participants included disabled adolescents, non-disabled adolescents, parents, teachers, members of disabled people's organisations and representatives of HIV/AIDS organisations. Interviews explored issues of HIV/AIDS knowledge, access to HIV/AIDS services and perceptions of personal risk.Barriers preventing adequate access to information about HIV and AIDS experienced by adolescents with disabilities depended on the nature and severity of the impairment. For example, parents and health workers were unable to communicate with deaf adolescents using sign language, adolescents with physical impairments were often unable to access community meetings about HIV and print material was not adapted for those with visual impairments. Further, assumptions by health workers and community members that people with disabilities were not sexually active led to the marginalisation of disabled people from HIV services. Adolescents with disability described low self-esteem and issues of self-efficacy affecting control of safer sexual relationships. A high level of targeted abuse, rape and exploitation was reported leading to vulnerability among this population.The impact of the HIV epidemic among people with disabilities is a neglected area. This study supports the need to develop strategies in HIV prevention programmes that include people with disabilities.
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The Historic Evolution and Reform of Teacher Education in South Africa - Yuan, Liping (Studies In Foreign Education, 2005)
The system of teacher education in South Africa has its roots in the apartheid system. It took a long time for South Africa to germinate,develop gradually and consummate its teacher education. Especially,its government has been focusing on improving and consummating its teacher education policy system since South Africa rehabilitated its democratic system. Great changes and innovations had taken place to promote its teacher education forward during that time. The new government not only took many active measures to protect and push forward the development of its teacher education ,but also published all kinds of acts one after another,which have a profound and important influence on the development of its teacher education system.
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Integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Nigerian Tertiary Education - Yusuf, Mudasiru Olalere (African Symposium: An On-Line African Educational Research Journal, 2005)
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Transnational education and African universities - Železa, Paul Tiyambe (Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 2005)
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11. Gender, education, and Pentecostalism: the women’s movement within the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso - Zents, Alicia (2005)
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The uses of information and communication (ICT) in teaching and learning in South African higher education practices in the Western Cape - Zerniewicz, Laura C; Brown, Cheryl (2005)
Numerous South African policy documents support the use of ICTs in education, claiming that they can be beneficial to education, in a variety of ways. This article seeks to understand how ICTs are used in practice as part of teaching and learning, since access to ICTs alone does not ensure use, nor automatically add value. Through a regional study conducted in five higher education institutions in the Western Cape, we describe how and to what extent academic staff and students are using ICTs as part of teaching and learning events. Using an analytical framework adapted from Laurillard, we are able to provide more complex descriptions of how ICTs are being used, and to describe how specific staff and student groupings use ICTs differently. We confirm that ICTs are certainly being used as part of teaching and learning, most frequently as part of discovery and creation events. We also identify areas where the specific possibilities and affordances of ICTs are not being exploited. In addition, we identify anomalies in use in terms of age, and disciplinary domain. We find too that students report using ICTs to support their learning activities even when it is not required of them to do so. This evokes questions about staff-student interactions, and has implications for institutional staff development strategies.
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Shistosome hematobium infection in primary school student of Mauritania and the investigation of its epidemic condition - Zhang, Xiaoli (Chinese journal of zoonoses, 2005)
To investigate the infection of Schistosomiasis hematobia in 6-7 years old youngsters living the region near the drainage basin,ponds and lakes of Senegal River,Mauritania.To find out the epidemic condition and regularity,and then to confirm the region as the high occurred area of schistosomiasis.The infection rates of six regions were compared by means of statistics.The results showed significant difference.It is thus prove that the infection rate in Foumglaytais is higher than the other region,and the infection in male students is higher than that of female.
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Experimental study on hearing function and morphology of the offspring of female guinea pigs with autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss - Zhou, Hong (2005)
Objective To explore whether the autoimmune against inner ear could induce the pathological impairment of hearing function and labyrinth structure in newborns of the mothers with autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss(ASNHL).Methods The pregnant guinea pigs were immunized with crude inner ear antigens(CIEAgs).Then the hearing functions were measured with EcochG(include compound active potential,cAP and cochlear microphone potential,CM).The special antibodies against inner ear tissues antigens in serum were measured with ELISA.The celloidin sections of the inner ear were observed under light microscope.Results 16 offspring of ASNHL female guinea pigs presented sensorineural hearing loss.The special antibodies against inner ear antigens in the serum of the offspring of ASNHL guinea pigs and their offspring ascended evidently.The offspring of the ASNHL guinea pigs suffered the denaturalization of spiral ganglion cells.Conclusion This result suggests that the factor of autoimmune against inner ear tissue antigens could be one of pathogenic causes inducing non-heritage congenital sensorineural hearing loss.
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Gender Equity Development in Higher Education in South Africa: A Research Report Based on Surveys of 17 Higher Education Institutions - Zinn, Denise; Zinn, Allan; Rejane, Williams (2005)
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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa: learning from successes and failures - Zoomers, Annelies (International Development Planning Review, 2005)
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