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Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (2013)
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Index (Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)This paper focuses on the expansion of teacher education and the efforts to introduce universal primary education (UPE) in Africa. It also looks at the need for an adequate supply of primary school teachers. With specifi ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)The place of teacher education in the context of the overall development of any nation is extremely important. The emergence of open distance learning, with its particular characteristics and its usage in offering teacher ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)Given the well-established need for teacher intervention in Science learning, it is now time for closer attention to be given to research on teachers and teaching in schools, so as to address the question of quality Science ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)The DETA Conference of August 2011 and the workshops on the use of open educational resources (OER) were the catalyst for a project that aimed to design and build a multidisciplinary online course in academic research ...
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Causes of test anxiety among students in the faculty of education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana (Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)Tests are invaluable tools to educators but their over-dependence on tests in recent times has heightened the negative impact of test anxiety on its victims. Though the causes of test anxiety are many and varied, understanding ...
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Teachers’ concerns when implementing innovations: strengthening secondary science education in Kenya (Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)Change facilitators often presume that once an innovation has been adopted and the intial training has been completed, the intended users will put it into practice. However, implementation of an innovation is seldom simple ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)This article argues that the distance education (DE) delivery model has the potential to offer education and training to a greater majority of Malawians who, for one reason or another, cannot be accommodated in the traditional ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)Kenya aspires to harness science, technology and innovations in order to be competitive both regionally and globally. This can be achieved more effectively if learners in teacher education training institutions are developed ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)It is generally believed that children’s success in grappling effectively with emotional and social challenges in later years largely depends on their childhood experiences. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)Foreword: The fifth Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA) Conference in 2013 was hosted by the University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, from 30 July to 1 August. The biennial conference was borne out of ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2015)When striving to balance their dual role as leaders and teachers, Foundation Phase Heads of Departments (HoDs) have found themselves challenged and under stress. The Personnel Administrative Measures (PAM) document was ...