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One's perception and attitude towards Mathematics affects their conception of how it should be learned and presented (Ernest, 1998). This study was a survey of high school pupils' perceptions and attitudes towards Mathematics in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Pupils' perceptions and attitudes...

Fishing was one of the oldest and lifelong human activities which did not only attract high population densities, but was also used, in certain areas, as an alternative source of income and food security. Fish contributed to the development of trade between the riverine communities, which caught...

In Zambia today, a number of international policies have been ratified; among them was the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and came into force on 2 September 1990. In line with this Convention...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether social environment of a blind person has an effect on his/her desire to work. This study also investigated whether self-esteem and low vocational training of a blind person have an effect on his/her desire to work.A sample size of 80 visually...

This study is a review of the implementation of the Learner Centred Teaching (LCT) approach at Copperbelt Secondary Teachers College (COSETCO) and Nkrumah Teachers College (NTC). In 2003, the Flemish Office for International Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB) launched the Better...

This dissertation reports a study that was carried out to investigate how reading comprehension was taught in selected secondary schools of Lusaka district in Zambia. Data was collected from three secondary schools-all single sex schools. From the three, one was a boy’s school and the other two...

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the teachers' views on factors contributing to low reading levels among Mozambican primary school pupils. In Mozambique, in the last two decades, the government has been working hard to increase school access in primary school, reduce and eliminate...

The present study was carried out in two residential Secondary schools in the Luapula Province, Zambia, to determine whether the school's authority structure was democratic, authoritarian, or laissesz-faire. The research was based on the assumption that democratic leadership was one in which the...

The Zambian government and several other organizations tend to put more emphasis on medical treatment of HIV and AIDS than on the care for AIDS patients. As such, the Catholic Church introduced hospice palliative care services in Zambia in the 1990s to alleviate the sufferings of AIDS patients....

This study was undertaken to investigate the Catholic Church’s promotion of literacy in post-Colonial Zambia in Kalabo District. The researcher employed the qualitative research strategy to collect data from 30 respondents through interviews (focus group discussions and one-on-one) and...