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The use of research and theory in English language teaching in Botswana secondary schools
(Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713415834, 2005-03)
The purpose of this study was to establish the usage of research and theory in the teaching of English language in secondary schools in Botswana. Altogether 100 questionnaires were administered in 19 secondary schools. The ...
Barriers to teaching non-speaking learners with intellectual disabilities and their impact on the provision of augmentative and alternative communication
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-12)
The purpose of this investigation was to gain an understanding of the challenges of teaching non-speaking learners with intellectual disabilities and the scope of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) used in ...
Assessing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the University of Botswana
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana. http://www.thuto.org, 2001)
The article reports findings on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the University of Botswana.
Data from multiple sources was used to ascertain prevalence rates, morbidity and
mortality among students and staff. Prevalence rates ...
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 ...
Some key issues in African traditional education
(McGill University, Faculty of Education, http://www.mcgill.ca/education/, 2002)
Against a background discussion of the concept and general purpose of education, this article examines some key issues in African traditional education, namely its philosophical foundations, content and methods, strengths ...
Geography students as constructors of classroom knowledge and practice: a case study from Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2004-01)
This study reports on the strategies (overt and subtle) employed by students in one senior secondary school in Botswana to keep their teachers in an information-giving position. Contrary to the prevailing view that the ...
Geography in the Botswana Secondary curriculum: A study in curriculum renewal and contraction
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2002-06)
Curriculum reviews during the past two decades in Botswana have had mixed fortunes for geography in secondary schools. While the subject has modernised over the years it has at the same time shrunk in terms of its spread ...
Household factors are strong indicators of children’s nutritional status in children with access to primary health care in the greater Gaborone area
(Academic Journals. http://www.academicjournals.org, 2007-02)
Access to primary health care can improve the nutritional status and survival of preschool children. The effect of the universal provision of primary health care in Botswana on the prevalence, types, and determinants of ...
Education reform in Botswana: reflections on policy contradictions and paradoxes
(Routledge http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-02)
Literature on globalisation claims that changed global patterns of production and industrial organisation have intensified international economic competition, prompting nations globally to restructure their education systems ...
International Aid Agencies, learner-centred pedagogy and political democratisation: a critique
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2003-02)
Recent pronouncements by international aid agencies on their interest in and preference
for a learner-centred pedagogy so far appear not to have attracted much scholarly attention. This
paper attempts to explain this ...