Browsing by Subject "Globalization"
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Adult Education and social transformation in the South: the Botswana experience
(JCHE, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujch20, 2010-11-23)The article argues that, historically, universities have served a select few individuals as part of modernist not transformative agenda. This highly selective process guarantees students good life. The article argues that ... -
Adult education, deliberative democracy and social re-engagement in Africa
(SAGE Publications http://jds.sagepub.com, 2006)While the western powers credit globalization with facilitating development, Africa continues to face challenges such as poverty, low quality education, HIV/AIDS, and ineffective governance. This article provides an overview ... -
Adult education, deliberative democracy and social re-engagement in Africa
(SAGE, http://www.sagepublications.com, 2006-03)While the western powers credit globalization with facilitating development, Africa continues to face challenges such as poverty, low quality education, HIV/AIDS, and ineffective governance. This article provides an overview ... -
Evidence-based nursing practice in Botswana: issues, challenges, and globalization
(Cambridge University Press. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PHC, 2006-01-01)This paper presents developments in evidence-based nursing practice in Botswana, Africa. Issues pertaining to evidence-based practice in community health such as the role of research, the digital divide between African ... -
Global Influences and local responses: The restructuring of the University of Botswana, 1990-2000
(Springer. http://www.springerlink.com, 2007-04)The University of Botswana has not escaped the reform fever currently gripping higher education institutions the world-over. In the late 1980s the University initiated an administrative/management restructuring exercise ... -
Paradigms shifts in information environment: prospects and challenges African libraries
(Emerald, 2007)Purpose – The purpose is to trace the revolution in information and communication technology (ICT) and changes in this wake such as globalization, digital divide, information society, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ... -
Prelude: reflections on the international ethics conference in December, 2009
(SRA International Publications, http://www.srainternational.org, 2010)This prelude reflects upon the international ethics conference that was held from December 6-9, 2009, at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. Seeking international partners and then forging mutually viable ... -
Proliferation of new health cadres: a response to acute shortage of nurses and midwives by sub-Saharan African governments
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Sources of positive stereotypes: perspectives of junior secondary students in Botswana
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2011-03)This paper focused on the positive stereotypes junior secondary school students have of nationalities outside Africa. In addition, the paper examined the sources of the positive stereotypes as perceived by the students ... -
Theological challenges: proclaiming the fullness of life in the HIV/AIDS and global economic era
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)Since the first clinical evidence of AIDS was reported two decades ago, HIV/AIDS has spread to every corner of the world. Still rapidly growing, the epidemic is reversing development gains, robbing millions of their lives, ... -
Understanding the social studies teachers’ experiences: conceptions of citizenship in Botswana
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2011-11)The advent of globalization problematizes and challenges the notion of bounded citizenship as conceptualized and perceived among established democracies and nations of the world. It threatens to undermine the key characteristics ...