The study sought to investigate the prevalence of the ‘classroom tuck shop' phenomenon in Zimbabwean urban primary schools. The sample consisted of five school heads, fifty teachers, and one hundred pupils, all drawn from ...

The study was designed to obtain empirical evidence on the teachers’ perception of the contents o f the Further-Mathematics curriculum and their attitudes toward instructional and assessment practices in its implementation. ...

This paper mainly describes and presents the results of a survey carried out in 1990to record teachers’perceptions of the most difficult aspects of English for High School students in Zimbabwe. The 59 questionnaires teachers ...

This paper reports on a study that focused on how environmental and economic consciousness can be taught through the English language subject area. Environmental and economic consciousness is a competence that is often ...

This paper is an extract from a bigger study that investigated use of Science Technology and Society (STS) approaches in teaching General Science in eight secondary schools in Harare, Zimbabwe. Data were collected from 28 ...

This study compared teaching vocabulary through a definition and explanation technique with a semantic mapping technique, specifically to see which of the two techniques was more effective in achieving accurate and appropriate ...

An intensive literature search on transformation, change management and leadership revealed that the transformation theory arena has been driven by case studies. However, the case studies cited were predominantly Western. ...

Electric power is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. But access to electricity remains a distant dream for majority of the population living in the remote and arid areas of developing countries. With the growing ...

A study was conducted to assess the potential of establishing small-scale dairy processing schemes that would bring development and economic growth, alleviate poverty and enhance the standards of life of the Namibian ...

This article is based on a research survey carried out in 1987. This pilot study was done at Harare Polytechnic. Other technical colleges involved were: Bulawayo Technical College, KweKwe Technical College, Gweru Technical ...