Respondents explicitly mentioned teacher professional development as an important domain of mathematics education research (including teacher educators’ development). For example, Loide Kapenda (Namibia) wrote, “I am supporting UNESCO whose idea is to focus on how we prepare teachers for the future ...
Namibia is a nation-state in Southern Africa which gained its independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990. It has a population of 2,113,077 (GRN2011, p. 8). The country covers an area of approximately 823,000 km2. After independence critical investigations into higher education took plac...
The Act also requires that all children receive a minimum of nine years of compulsory education. Although the Act authorizes the exemption of tuition fees for nine years of compulsory education, it is still a goal that needs to be achieved. The Chinese government is working to reduce the cost...
Waste in the public sector and weak governance structures continue to act as major constraints to development in many countries. Overview Education systems in the region reflect differences in geography, cultural heritage, colonial history, and economic development progress. The impact of French, ...
In old days, a child was the property of the clan; and discipline was a society's role but today a relative or close friend can see a child/student being taken to the lodge will not act. Why? Immediately you take action to discipline the child, in a fewest hours you will find ...
In such circumstances, the benefits of family literacy programmes are likely to be particularly great. Desmond and Elfert ([2008]) have collected accounts of projects in Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda which try to address these problems by helping parents to support thei...
Learning analytics (LA) is defined as the “measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs” [16] (p. 4). LA builds upon research areas such as educational ...
Besides raising awareness about CC and its consequences, k.i.d.Z.21 aims at generating acceptance and the need for action, linked with a necessary social transformation, while at the same time strengthening young peoples’ capacities to act and adapt to the challenges posed by societal, ...
Education for sustainable development is a method of teaching aimed at developing awareness, competence, knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the field of environmental protection in such a way that each activity related to its operation supports the satisfaction of the needs of future generations. In...