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Direct linkNg'asike, John Teria – International Review of Education, 2019
Despite setting high hopes on education, very few pastoral nomad children in Kenya transition from primary education to secondary education. This article argues that the national Kenyan compulsory formal curriculum fails to accommodate the needs of pastoralist communities. Literacy rates are particularly low among the Turkana people, pastoralist…
Descriptors: Migrants, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary Education
Jingwa, Nkeze George – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2012
In order to address the many challenges the world faces, new solutions are needed. This article explores how the Bishop of Buea, Cameroon created a University inspired by the Focolare movement's interdisciplinary paradigm and economic vision known as the Economy of Communion (EoC). In addition, the article presents some of the main cultural…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Foreign Countries
April, Kurt A.; April, Amanda R. – Journal of Management Education, 2007
South Africa has unique challenges. Thirteen years since becoming democratic, it is still going through its own unprecedented change in joining the global economic network and moving from Apartheid to democracy and from a closed to an open community. These political and sociological changes have also infiltrated business and therefore management…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Racial Segregation, Democracy, Educational Change
Beachum, Floyd D.; McCray, Carlos R. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
"Cultural Collision and Collusion" addresses the complexity of problems that surround youth culture and school culture. By broadening the scholarly dialogue and examining and disseminating relevant research to practitioners, the book seeks to provide insight into youth culture and some manifestations of popular culture (e.g., hip-hop). In…
Descriptors: Music, School Culture, Popular Culture, Educational Psychology
Harmer, Bonnie – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
Born in Jamaica in 1805, Mary Seacole (nee Grant), was the daughter of a Black Creole boarding house owner and a Scottish Army officer. Like many Creole doctress women, Seacole was taught African herbal medicine arts from her mother. In addition to understanding traditional herbal medicine, she gleaned an understanding of Western medicine from the…
Descriptors: Nurses, Creoles, Medicine, African Culture
Patton, Lori D. – About Campus, 2006
This article examines the historical and contemporary context of black culture centers (BCCs) and offers findings from a recent study (conducted by this author) on the role of the centers in the lives of black students attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs). The author's research revealed that these centers make a powerful difference in…
Descriptors: Campuses, Student Attitudes, African American Culture, Leadership
