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Mhaka-Mutepfa, Magen; Maree, Jacobus Gideon; Chiganga, Gilbert – School Psychology International, 2014
This article reports on an attempt to demonstrate the importance of putting theory into practice in a way that will impact on the lives of children who are currently being denied their basic rights. Purposive sampling of schools in urban areas in Harare Province, Zimbabwe, was used with data collected from 147 participants (M age?=?16.9,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Rights, Access to Education, Urban Schools
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Cluver, Lucie D.; Orkin, Mark; Gardner, Frances; Boyes, Mark E. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: By 2008, 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa were orphaned by AIDS. Cross-sectional studies show psychological problems for AIDS-orphaned children, but until now no longitudinal study has explored enduring psychological effects of AIDS-orphanhood in the developing world. Methods: A 4-year longitudinal follow-up of AIDS-orphaned…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health, Foreign Countries
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Jourdan, D.; Pironom, J.; Berger, D.; Carvalho, G. S. – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: To analyse teachers' health views in order to obtain general trends in factors influencing health and health education and to fit them into the negative-positive model of health proposed by Downie and collaborators. Method: This large international study involved 15 countries from Western and Eastern Europe, North and Sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Health Education, Trend Analysis, Questionnaires
Abel, James F.; Bond, Norman J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The main purpose in preparing this bulletin is to assemble so far as practicable and publish in brief form such official statistics as are available on illiteracy in the various countries of the world, to tell where those data may be found, and if possible, to give a general estimate of world-wide illiteracy. Incidental to this purpose, it…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Political Divisions (Geographic), Global Education, Statistical Data