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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 ...
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 ...
Teacher professional development for the new school improvement: Botswana
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group; http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/TF/02601370.html, 2006-11)
This article focused on the training needs of serving teachers for the enhancement of school performances. It sought to achieve this by involving a selected group of teachers and head teachers in the completion of a ...
Factors affecting prevalence of malnutrition among children under three years of age in Botswana
(Rural Outreach Programme http://www.bioline.org.br/nd, 2006)
Malnutrition affects physical growth, morbidity, mortality, cognitive development, reproduction, and physical work capacity, and it consequently impacts on human performance, health and survival. It is an underlying factor ...
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 ...
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 ...
Boarding Schools as Perpetrators of Students' Behaviour Problems
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises; http://www.krepublishers.com/, 2006)
This paper examined and discussed the nature of problems boarding schools in Botswana experience.
The focus was on the boys' side of boarding. The paper argued that if the recreational facilities in boarding schools
were ...
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, ...
Lifelong learning for facilitating democratic participation in Africa
(Routledge http://www.informaworld.com, 2006-11)
Lifelong learning has come to be internationally recognized as a framework in the development of sustainable education. However, in spite of rhetoric and its endorsement in some nations' policy documents, lifelong learning ...