Faculty of Education: Recent submissions
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Language proficiency testing and the expatriate medical practitioner in Malawi
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2008-08)According to the Medical Council of Malawi, one of the conditions for a licence to be granted to an individual who wants to practise medicine in Malawi is the practitioner's ability to speak and write English fluently. ... -
Secondary school leadership practice in Botswana: implications for effective training
(SAGE Publications. http://ema.sagepub.com, 2008-01)This article analyses the views of selected headteachers on the impact of the 10-year basic education policy on the leadership skills of secondary school headteachers in Botswana. Research literature on school leadership ... -
Professional development experiences of physical education teachers in Botswana: epistemological implications
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-08)Studies conducted outside Africa show that professional development experiences of physical education (PE) teachers are shaped by the manner in which PE is situated (and stereotyped) in the school system. Given the contested ... -
Barriers to teaching non-speaking learners with intellectual disabilities and their impact on the provision of augmentative and alternative communication
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-12)The purpose of this investigation was to gain an understanding of the challenges of teaching non-speaking learners with intellectual disabilities and the scope of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) used in ... -
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. ... -
Changing livelihoods, language use and language shift amongst Basarwa of Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-08)This study explores the historical relationship between the languages of Basarwa of Botswana and Setswana, in order to understand the dynamics underpinning their appropriation of the Setswana language, as they adjust to ... -
Competing gender ideologies: a conceptual framework for the analysis of education amongst Batswana of Botswana, c.1840-c.1994
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana. http://www.thuto.org, 1997)In both precolonial and Westerm forms of schooling, education was a crucial medium of construction and articulation of ideas concerning the role and behaviour of women. Precolonial education reproduced and maintained sharp ... -
A discourse analysis of the national sport and recreation policy for Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2007)The thesis of this article is that national sport and recreation policies constitute a pedagogical problematic, as they are texts bound to specific meaning and learning, with potential to impact on roles and subjectivities. ... -
The crisis of student discipline in Botswana schools: an impact of culturally conflicting disciplinary strategies
(Academic Journals. http://www.academicjournals.org, 2008-01)Although student discipline had existed since the beginning of mankind, the disciplinary methods employed have changed over the years, giving rise to culturally irrelevant disciplinary strategies. This study explored ... -
The bumpy road to mother tongue instruction in Malawi
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2008-09)In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Malawi directed that in future Standards 1 to 4 would be taught through mother tongues. It took eight years before the pilot phase of the language policy could begin. The paper critically ... -
Improving commitment to basic education for the minorities in Botswana: a challenge for policy and practice
(Elsevier Ltd. http://www.sciencedirect.com, 2008-07)This paper is part of a study that assessed the level of commitment of primary schools of remote area dwellers (RADs) to basic education between October 2004 and April 2005. The research question focused on the level of ... -
Instructional leadership for quality learning: an assessment of the impact of the primary school management development project in Botswana
(SAGE Publications. http://ema.sagepub.com, 2008)A descriptive study using questionnaires was conducted in 2004 to assess the effectiveness of instructional leadership displayed by primary school management teams following the implementation of the Primary School Management ... -
Household factors are strong indicators of children’s nutritional status in children with access to primary health care in the greater Gaborone area
(Academic Journals. http://www.academicjournals.org, 2007-02)Access to primary health care can improve the nutritional status and survival of preschool children. The effect of the universal provision of primary health care in Botswana on the prevalence, types, and determinants of ... -
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 ... -
Why HIV/AIDS prevention strategies fail in Botswana: considering discourses of sexuality
(Routledge. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0376835x.asp, 2005-09)A phenomenological study that was carried out among five ethnic groups of Botswana revealed the importance of taking into account culturally situated sexual realities when prevention policies for HIV/AIDS are considered ... -
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 ... -
Aggressive and antisocial behaviours among secondary shool students in Botswana: the influence of family and school based factors
(SAGE Publications. http://spi.sagepub.com, 2007)This study examined the relationship between family factors and secondary school students’ aggressive and antisocial behaviours. Participants were 1,478 junior and senior secondary school students from four major urban ... -
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, ... -
Global Influences and local responses: The restructuring of the University of Botswana, 1990-2000
(Springer. http://www.springerlink.com, 2007-04)The University of Botswana has not escaped the reform fever currently gripping higher education institutions the world-over. In the late 1980s the University initiated an administrative/management restructuring exercise ...