knowledge through interaction with others, friends and family, materials and environment (Houser, D. & Osborne, C). Developmentally appropriate practices require teachers to make decisions in the classroom by combining their knowledge of child development with an understanding of the individual child to achieve desired and meaningful outcomes (Houser, D. & Osborne, C). Research shows that developmentally appropriate practices ensure success in the early grades (Novella, R.). The approach fosters
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PROPOSAL ON TRAINING CONSTITUENCY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES AND LOCATIONAL COMMITTEES Introduction Participatory Decision-Making Good governance requires the population to be part of the decision-making process. It needs citizens at all levels of society to take part in the management of that society. Citizens have to be involved in talking about and deciding how their society is to be administered. If the people are not consulted, then the decisions that are made may be against their interest
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ABSTRACT Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker, who coined the term “human capital,” says that “the basic resource in any company is the people. Loosely speaking, human capital corresponds to any stock of knowledge or characteristics the worker has (either innate or acquired) that contributes to his or her “productivity”. Human capital – the productive capacity that is embedded in people – is one of the most important contributors to the growth in nations’ output and standard of living.
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ICTs As Enablers of Development: A Microsoft White Paper December 2004 Executive Summary Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are transforming societies and fueling the growth of the global economy. Yet despite the broad potential of ICTs, their benefits have not been spread evenly. Indeed, using ICTs effectively to foster social inclusion and economic growth is among the key challenges facing policymakers today. As one of the world’s leading ICT firms, Microsoft brings
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country’s level of development’ Discuss Introduction Food insecurity exists whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain (www.who.int). The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) further defines food security as being built on four pillars; food availability, food access, food utilization and stability. Each of these aspects arguably depends on the development of the country, therefore
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Lanka) , Africa and Latin America started to develop their economy which required skilled professionals in engineering, educationists, technicians and others. But the migration of these type of professionals to developed countries bottlenecks the development of the poor countries. We can see that the majority of the young or educated people from around the globe are preferring to settle down in the developed countries like USA, UK, Canada, Australia or other European and East Asian countries. Why
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AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: THE IMPERATIVES OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND VALUES by MARTIN ODEI AJEI submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the subject PHILOSOPHY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: PROFESSOR M. B. RAMOSE AUGUST 2007 Contents Declaration Acknowledgement List of Acronyms Key terms Summary vi vii viii x xi INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY i. Statement of the Problem ii. Against Economism iii. Critique of Competition
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in international development: An assessment of trilateral development cooperation. Introduction In a time span of the last 10 years, the scene has changed rapidly in international development studies. A number of new actors have appeared on the scene and are changing the attitudes towards and the setting of development, in particularly in Africa. To argue that changes on this scene is a novelty would be obscene, with possible references to the plethora of different development paths followed by
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review Jeffrey James’s views toward ‘information technology, cumulative causation and patterns of globalization’ in the developing countries. In this journal, James analysed the relationships and effects between the developing countries’ economy development and the information technology. Firstly, from James (2001) point of view, there is a ‘cumulative causation’between foreign direct investment and exports and economic growth. Heclaimed that foreign direct investment (FDI) had a huge influence on
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International Development Law Introduction The USA perspective on five debates on International Development The aim of this introductory section of the paper is to highlight what position the United States of America have officially undertaken in international development assistance. As we will see, the international development law is a field whose borders are not clearly defined. International Development Law’s ( herein IDL) shades can be found in many fields such as International Economic Law
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