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Identification of Yoruba Indigenous Knowledge Systems Relevant for Teaching and Addressing Environmental Conservation and Climate Change
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Nathaniel Ayodeji Omilani; Abiodun Adekunle Bada – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2024
Understanding climate and its associated factors was familiar to Africans before contact was made with Western-made science. Introducing African learners to formal education seems to bring a disconnect between their indigenous knowledge about their environment and what is taught in the formal school curriculum. The indigenous knowledge systems…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Climate, Conservation (Environment), Foreign Countries
Community Elders' Narrative Accounts of "Ubuntu" Translanguaging: Learning and Teaching in African Education
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Makalela, Leketi – International Review of Education, 2018
While South Africa has been lauded as a multilingual country that accorded official status to 11 languages, the academic notion of multilingualism has always been conceived from a monolingual perspective. Monolingual ideologies, which inadvertently favoured European languages to the detriment of local languages, were passed on to African countries…
Descriptors: African Culture, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, African Languages
An Information Needs Profile of Israeli Older Adults, regarding the Law and Services
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Getz, Irith; Weissman, Gabriella – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
Based on Nicholas' framework for assessing information needs, this research aims to construct a profile of both Israeli older adults and their information needs regarding laws and social services. Data were collected by questionnaires answered by 200 older adults, born in Europe, Asia and Africa, who attended social clubs for older adults. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Baby Boomers, Information Needs
Household Composition among Elders in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of HIV/AIDS
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Zimmer, Zachary – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
Cross-sectional and repeated surveys from household components of Demographic and Health Surveys in sub-Saharan Africa were examined to determine whether household composition indicators for older adults (N = 52,573), involving offspring and grandchildren, correlated with national levels of AIDS mortality. One in 4 was living with a grandchild…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Family Structure
Trends and Prospects in Africa.
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Apt, Nana Araba – Community Development Journal, 1992
Modernization and family change are affecting the traditional participatory role of older Africans. A survey in Ghana showed that elderly people still play an important role in existing community institutions and in community improvement. (SK)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Involvement, Family Structure, Foreign Countries
Recent Advances in Nutrition Education. The Health Education Monograph Series. Volume 15 Number 3.
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Shier, Nathan W., Ed.; Torabi, Mohammad R., Ed. – 1997
This monograph presents a collection of articles on nutrition education: "Using the DINE Score To Improve Food Choice Behavior" (Darwin Dennison and Kathryn F. Dennison); "Self-Reported Food Intake Patterns of Older Adults in Australia, China, and the United States" (Alyce D. Fly, Nathan W Shier, Barbara A. Hawkins, Susan J.…
Descriptors: Athletes, Behavior Change, Blacks, Child Health
Constitutive Interplay midst Discourse of East and West: Modernity & Postmodernity Renderings in Adult & Continuing Education. Proceedings of the International Adult & Continuing Education Conference (Seoul, Korea, May 27-28, 1996).
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Cunningham, Phyllis, Ed.; And Others – 1996
This document contains 17 papers, organized in three sections, presented at a conference on Eastern and Western adult and continuing education. The following papers are included in Section I, "Ideas and Tasks of Adult Education: Views of East and West": "Imagineries of 'East and West': Slippery Curricular Signifiers in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Continuing Education, Educational Environment