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Browsing Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (2011) by Type "Article"
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Ogina, Teresa Auma; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
Distance education is a learner-centred approach to education that emphasises
independent learning based on the assumption that students are self-motivated
and active in the learning process. However, due to the fact ...
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Dwomoh-Tweneboah, Martin; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
Distance education, or distance learning, is a fi eld of education that focuses on
teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on
an individual basis, to students who are not physically present ...
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Olagunju, Alice M.; Oloyede, Omolola O.; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
The teacher’s use of lecture method has been observed to be ineffective in bringing
about the right attitude towards the environment and environmental problems. The
purpose of this research is to fi nd out what are the ...
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Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
The Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA) 2011 was hosted
by the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique, from 3 to 5 August. It
was the fourth of its kind. The biennial conference was born out ...
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Mampane, Sharon; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
This paper focuses on how distance education (DE) facilitators of the Advanced
Certifi cate in Education (ACE) are trained, supported and quality-assured during
contact sessions to improve their facilitation skills. The ...
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Oyoo, Samuel; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
Africa is perhaps the only continent in the world where most formal or school
education is conducted in instructional languages that are foreign to most learners
and their teachers. In contexts where formal learning is ...
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Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
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Reed, Yvonne; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
This paper is a response to calls made in the teacher education pedagogy literature
(e.g. Loughran, 2006; Moletsane, 2003; Murphy, 2008; Russell, 1997) for teacher
educators to take a critical look at how they mediate ...
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Akuamoah-Boateng, Clara; Boadu, Kankam; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
The goal of distance education in Ghana is to make quality education, especially at
the tertiary level, more accessible and relevant to meeting the human resource needs
of the country. This is to improve performance as ...
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Wolfenden, Freda; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
Gender parity in primary and secondary education has yet to be achieved in many
countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Malawi. The presence of female teachers
is recognised as positively impacting on girls’ enrolment ...
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Omidire, Margaret Funke; Aluko, Folake Ruth; Januario, Francisco
(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)
This paper is based on a study conducted to determine the infl uence of a
curriculum-based dynamic assessment (CDA) procedure on the performance and
effect on additional language (AL) learners in mainstream education. ...