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Threat of perceived stereotype on behaviour related to choice of and practices in teaching as a career among teacher trainees
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-10)
The extent to which teachers perceive the existence of pressure emanating from negative stereotype of teaching as a career by the society tends to reduce the amount of affective and cognitive investments on teaching and ...
An investigation into the status of the teaching and learning of the concept of democracy at the junior secondary school level in Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2010-07)
This paper identifies the aims and contents directly linked to the teaching and learning of the concept of democracy at the junior secondary school level in Botswana. It examines the perceived extent to which the objectives ...
The politics of language and nation building in Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2010-12)
Finex Ndhlovu’s The politics of language and nation building in Zimbabwe is a product of his doctoral research project. The book, which is a welcome contribution to scholarly debates on nation building in multilingual and ...
A conflict between aims and outcomes: comparison of one cohort’s primary school leaving examinations and junior certificate results of 2003 and 2006
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, http://www.krepublishers.com, 2010-03)
The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate the outcomes of the 10 year- basic
education policy in Botswana through comparison of one cohort national results of School Leaving
Examination (PSLE) of 2003 and its ...
Democratic education in the classroom: an education law perspective
(JEAPS, http://www.academicjournals.org/ijeaps, 2010-04-20)
This paper sought to unpack the extent of students’ democratic involvement in the teaching and
learning processes. Data that were analyzed were obtained from 253 teachers and 194 students from 15
secondary schools in ...
The construction of girls’ motivational orientations through their social engagement in school mathematics
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-06)
This paper represents the voices of six Botswana girls in a case study that investigated social influences on their motivation in mathematics. Interviews were conducted and observations made to explore the girls’ experiences ...
Resisting dominant discourses: implications of indigenous, African feminist theory and methods for gender and education research
(GE, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cgee20, 2010-11)
In this paper we explore tensions between Western gender theory and research, and post‐colonial and indigenous feminist standpoints, which challenge us to re-define our roles as feminist-activist educators and researchers ...
Denigrating the local, glorifying the foreign: Malawian language policies in the era of African Renaissance
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2010-12)
Malawi's Vision 2020 document, a national document that serves as a vehicle to project a future for a more developed, secure and democratically mature nation, laments the tendency of Malawians to denigrade local products ...
Analysis of some factors that influence causal attribution of mathematics performance among secondary school students in Lesotho
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, http://www.krepublishers.com, 2010)
Student learning is influenced by many factors which educational research is tasked to determine and feed into the teaching-learning process to enhance its effectiveness. Several studies
with different populations have ...
Adult Education and social transformation in the South: the Botswana experience
(JCHE, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujch20, 2010-11-23)
The article argues that, historically, universities have served a select few individuals as part of modernist not transformative agenda. This highly selective process guarantees students good life. The article argues that ...