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For the African Virtual University and its consortium of African universities the implementation of quality promoting initiatives are not without challenges and scepticisms. To be discussed in this article is the case of a teacher education qualification in ten different African countries. Seven countries were sampled and visited in 2006 with the aim of understanding quality assurance cultures and practices used for promoting quality. Findings showed that quality assurance processes manifest...
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Vignettes that capture Kenyan early childhood teaching practices highlight how Kenyan teachers use multiple musical and physical strategies to promote meaningful learning. These vignettes illustrate how teachers teach language development through music, use music to teach social skills and support emotional development, foster logico-mathematical skills through music, encourage physical development through music, and use music to teach personal safety, autonomy, and mastery.
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Adopt-a-Marathoner is the outcome of an alliance between Elmwood School, Massachusetts, and John Hancock Inc. Through the program, students meet Kenyan runners who compete in the Boston Marathon. In addition, they learn about Kenya through activities integrated in the language arts, social studies, mathematics, and technology curriculum.
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The writer discusses Literacy Leads to Hope, a fund-raising initiative launched to support the American Friends of Kenya organization by Danielle Rodriguez and Megan Adams, both high school juniors at the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, Florida. The recent political violence in Kenya, while jeopardizing the girls' objective of raising enough money to build and set up a library in Thika, has only made them more determined.
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The article presents a profile of Sammy Gitau, a Kenyan who managed to overcome many obstacles and complete a two-year degree at the University of Manchester in England. Gitau began supporting his mother and 10 siblings at age 13, after his father's death. In the slums of Kenya's Mathare Valley he turned to petty crime and drugs, as there were few opportunities for legitimate work. After a personal crisis, Gitau began working with local youth to try to improve the slum area where he lived....
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It is 40 years since Coombs (1967) first drew attention to the World Education Crisis, and specifically problems in the educational systems of countries in the developing world. Today, many of these problems remain, and are most visible in the educational systems of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of children remain out of school and for those who do enrol, less than half complete the primary education cycle. More worrying is the fact that those who do complete primary...
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