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African literature: Matshoba's "call me not a man"
(National Council of Teachers of English, http://www.ncte.org/, 1990-12)Suggests using Mtutuzeli Matshoba's "Call Me Not a Man" as the central text in a unit on oppression to help students understand and make them better able to respond to oppression. Provides key questions for structuring the ... -
Competing gender ideologies: a conceptual framework for the analysis of education amongst Batswana of Botswana, c.1840-c.1994
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana. http://www.thuto.org, 1997)In both precolonial and Westerm forms of schooling, education was a crucial medium of construction and articulation of ideas concerning the role and behaviour of women. Precolonial education reproduced and maintained sharp ... -
Teachers' perspectives on classroom practice in Botswana: implications for pedagogical change
(Routledge http://www.informaworld.com, 1998-04)Attempts to improve the quality of education in Botswana have, inter alia, included an emphasis on a learner-centered pedagogy. Attempts at implementing this pedagogy have been made within the ambit of the technical rational ... -
Colonial initiatives and Afreican responses in the esdtablishment of the dairy industry in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1930-1966
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana http://www.thuto.org, 1999)The dairy industry arose in Bechuanaland primarily as an alternative to beef production in response to South Africa's restrictions on the import of cattle from the Protectorate African dairy producers were at a disadvantage ... -
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 ... -
National policies on pregnancy in education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2002)The article critiques pregnancy policies in the education systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Policies discussed are divided into expulsion, re-entry and continuation policies. Arguing from the standpoint of theories of oppression, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
No easy walk to linguistic freedom: a ritique of language planning during south Africa's first decade of democracy
(Nordic Association of African Studies. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi, 2006)In 1994, South Africans of all races and political parties took part in the first democratic elections. The election and inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first black president marked the beginning of a new era - an ... -
Counteracting the threat of language death: the case of minority languages in Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2006-03)When Botswana gained independence from the British in 1966, a political decision was taken to designate English as an official language and Setswana, one of the indigenous languages, as a national language. This move ... -
Sociolinguistic research and academic freedom in Malawi: past and current trends
(Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES). http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sare.html, 2006-10)During the first 30 years of Malawi’s independence (1964-1994), the country was under President Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s one-party authoritarian rule. In line with Banda’s nation-building ideology, Malawi pursued the ... -
Language planning in Botswana and Malawi: a comparative study
(Walter de Gruyter, http://www.degruyter.de, 2006-11)The article discusses language planning in two Southern African countries, Botswana and Malawi. Both countries are multilingual and multicultural. They also share a common British colonial history. At independence, ... -
What contribution can senior citizens make towards the economic and social development of Botswana?
(African Education Research Network, http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/, 2006-12)Senior citizens (pensioners) have been known by society to be people who have exhausted their worth and wealth of expertise and knowledge and for that matter have no role to play or have no further contribution to make ... -
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 ... -
Globalization, linguistic diversity, and information dissemination in Malawi
(Brill Academic Publishers. http://www.brill.nl/m%5Fcatalogue.asp?sub=3, 2008)In a linguistically heterogeneous country, one of the critical challenges is to make information accessible to all people. Various communication media can be used: television, radio, telephone, the Internet and others. ... -
Bilingual education: meeting the challenges of diversity in Botswana
(Nordic Association of African Studies, http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/, 2008)This paper reviews the role of language in addressing issues of instruction and diversity towards the achievement of the aims of basic education in Botswana. It also examines the role of the mother tongue in instruction ... -
Language proficiency testing and the expatriate medical practitioner in Malawi
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2008-08)According to the Medical Council of Malawi, one of the conditions for a licence to be granted to an individual who wants to practise medicine in Malawi is the practitioner's ability to speak and write English fluently. ... -
The bumpy road to mother tongue instruction in Malawi
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2008-09)In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Malawi directed that in future Standards 1 to 4 would be taught through mother tongues. It took eight years before the pilot phase of the language policy could begin. The paper critically ...