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Gender and minority issues in planning literacy education in Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2005)
This empirical paper demonstrates that in spite of being a multiethnic society, literacy education in Botswana has ignored gender and cultural diversity. It demonstrates how planners endorsed a technocratic view of planning, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Assessment of learners with special needs for inclusive education in Botswana: issues and challenges for schools
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2012-06)
This study examines the role and functions of the Botswana Assessment Centre in diagnosing the learning needs of primary school students. It also examines the issues and challenges faced by learners with special needs who ...
Mainstreaming environment and sustainability issues in institutions of higher education: the case of the University of Botswana
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-06)
Environment and sustainability issues are contemporary in educational innovations in institutions of higher education particularly in their core business regarding teaching, research and community engagement. The introduction ...
Research orientation and research-related behaviour of graduate education students
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises http://www.krepublishers.com, 2009-04)
At the students’ level, researchers’ orientation tends to be undefined and hence students easily fall prey to having their orientation determined by factors other than those related to the nature of their research problems. ...
Democratizing education for the enhancement of education for sustainable development: a challenge in Botswana
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-10)
This paper registers that there is a strong relationship between the prevailing global discourse on Education for Sustainable Development and Democracy in Education. As such, in order for any nation to be seen to be having ...