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A tracer study to evaluate the impact of the Department of Primary Education programmes of the University of Botswana on the education sector of Botswana
(African Education Research Network, http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/, 2008-12)
One of the aims of the Botswana education since independence was to improve the primary level as a foundation of the whole education system. As a result, the Government of Botswana, in collaboration with other partners the ...
Strengthening civic education in Botswana primary schools: a challenge to traditional social studies curriculum
(African Education Research Network, http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/, 2009-06)
The primary goal of social studies is citizenship education. Social studies as citizenship education seek to provide students with knowledge, skills, and attitudes which will enable them to actively participate as citizens ...
Students' effective use of the library as an Information Resource Centre - a case of Senior Secondary Schools in Botswana
(Librarians of Institutes & Schools in Education (LISE); http://www2.worc.ac.uk/lise/, 2005)
This paper investigated the extent to which secondary school students make use of school libraries. It pursued this objective by first looking at the history of libraries; the concept of a library and the important role ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peer provocation in physical education: experiences of Botswana adolescents
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-05)
Critical incidents of peer provocation in physical education were investigated among 675 junior secondary school students in Botswana. Data were generated through a brief, open-ended questionnaire requesting the students ...
Leadership in civil society organisations in Botswana
(Development Policy Management Forum, http://www.dpmf.org, 2002)
The paper is based on a study conducted in Botswana from June 2001 – February 2002 as part of an larger regional research project on Leadership, Civil Society and Democracy in Africa. In Botswana, the research was based ...
Predictors of food variety and dietary diversity among older persons in Botswana
(Elsevier; www.elsevier.com/locate/nut, 2005)
Objective: We investigated whether food variety and diversity are associated with physical and
cognitive functioning in older adults in Botswana and designed a simple set of screening questions
that predict food variety ...
Breastfeeding in Botswana: Practices, Attitudes, Patterns, and the Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Them
(Oxford University Press; http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/, 2002-08)
A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in four randomly selected districts of Botswana. Two study sites were chosen in each district. Four hundred households with children under 3 years old were enrolled into ...