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The thesis examined the performance of local Councils, with regard to administration and service delivery, during the Third Republic (1991-2001). The study is based on a Case Study of Lusaka City Council, Choma Municipal Council and Luwingu District Council. The focus of the study was not so much...

This dissertation examines the major trends in the way of life of the Gwembe Tonga from the time of their relocation in 1958 to 1998. Basically, the study analyses the process of resettlement and adaptation of the valley people, highlighting in particular the concomitant hardships of a critical...

The dissertation focuses on the work of the Jesuit and the Adventist Missionary Societies in their capacities as educational agencies. The Jesuit Mission at Chikuni and the Adventist Mission at Rusangu, both leading institutions in colonial Zambia, were simultaneously established within a few...

This study evaluated the availability and use of geography teaching/learning resources in selected high schools of Livingstone and Choma districts of Southern Zambia. The study was guided by three objectives: (i) to determine the availability of teaching/learning resources in Livingstone and...

The study investigated collaboration among Zambian high school teachers of geography in the production of teaching and learning materials (TLM) in selected high schools of Lusaka. The study addressed the question “Do teachers of geography collaborate effectively in the production of teaching and...

It has always been assumed that a person of higher qualification executes duties better than one with a lower qualification. The truth of this assumption remains a matter of debate. The training of geography teachers in teaching field project was first done at the University of Zambia under the...

In the year 2000 the Zambian Ministry of Education, through its Curriculum Development Centre, published and implemented the New Zambian High School Geography Syllabus. This new syllabus was necessitated by the need to improve the quality of education at High School level as stipulated in the...

This study was prompted by the general research problem arising from a concern over the dismal performance of High school pupils in the mapwork component of the Zambian School Certificate Geography paper 1 (2218/1). This problem was against the background of the paucity of knowledge in this area...

The New Zambian High School Geography Curriculum (NZHSGC) that was launched in the year 2000 by the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) of the Ministry of Education (MoE) carried with it a new component called the field project. The reason for proposing a field project was that the geography...

This study examines Zambia's regional development planning attempts to construct an egalitarian socialist society. Specific attention is focussed onto whether the growth centre strategy - officially adopted by the Third National Development Plan (TNDP,1979-1983) - is an adequate strategy to...