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Family strengths perspectives from Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2007-08)
This article discusses the challenges faced by most families in Botswana and the familial and social nets these families rely on to overcome the challenges. Both primary and secondary data were used to gather information. ...
Analysis of participants’ perceptions of REFLECT approach in their lives and work: the case of Botswana
(Florida International University, http://education.fiu.edu/newhorizons, 2008)
This manuscript documents the perceptions of teachers and learners towards the
Regenerated Freirean Literacy Empowerment and Community Techniques
(REFLECT) approach in the delivery of literacy in Ngamiland District, ...
Strengthening civic education in Botswana primary schools: a challenge to traditional social studies curriculum
(African Educational Research Network (AERN), http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/links.htm, 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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
Measuring the impact of HIV and AIDS on agricultural production in Botswana
(Botswana College of Agriculture; http://www.bca.bw/Research/bojaasBca/Bojass_JournalsIndex1.htm, 2007-01)
With an estimated 38% of the sexually active population infected, Botswana has one of the highest prevalence rates of HIV and AIDS. Since HIV and AIDS affect the most productive section of the population, it is expected ...
Weight control perception among female adolescents in Botswana
(AFAHPER-SD; see http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=153, 2000-10)
This study examined the weight control perception and the factors associated with it among female adolescents in Gaborone, Botswana. The subjects were two hundred and twenty 15-17 year-old students from five Community ...
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 ...
The correlates of the socio-cultural background of Botswana junior secondary school students with their attitudes towards and achievements in science
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2002)
The study was undertaken to find out whether there is a significant relationship between the socio- cultural beliefs held by beginning junior secondary school (JSS) students in Botswana and their attitudes towards school ...
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, ...