University of Zimbabwe Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Service Centres And Service Regions In The Magisterial Districts Of Inanda And Lower Tugela, Natal
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The Potential Role Of Indigenous Resources In The Economic Development Of The Arid Environments In Sub-Saharan Africa
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension ( AEE) ; University of Zimbabwe, 1988-12)In many of the arid and semi-arid environments which are marginal for cropping, conventional agricultural commodities and technologies are not able to increase incomes reliably or to sufficient levels to attract smallholder ... -
The maize subsector in South Africa: Emerging policy issues
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A Comparative Analysis Of Bruner’s And Ausubel’s Views On The Learning Process And Their Implications For Zimbabwe
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 1998-03)Bruner’s work focuses on learning through discovery. His position is that students learn best when they themselves discover the structure of a subject by inductive meftns. Ausubel believes that learning should be primarily ... -
The Early Years: The Vital Years Of Childhood
(Faculty of Education (FE), University of Zimbabwe (formerly University of Rhodesia.), 1973)In newly independent countries in Africa, the role of education is seen as being so vital for an early participation in the hoped-for riches of modern, scientific societies that some of these countries nearly bankrupt ... -
The Role Of Theory In The Sociological Study Of Education
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE), University of Zimbabwe, 2004-07)This study examines the role of theory in the sociological study of education. The concepts of social theory, sociology and education are defined and explained while the interrelationship between sociology and education ... -
Reflections On The Transition To A Proletarian Print Media In Zimbabwe With Special Reference To Agricultural Change And Development: Abstractions On The Theme Of Economic Reporting
(Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, 1985-11-12)I will be approaching the whole subject of agricultural change in Zimbabwe from the concerns of a historical researcher. With the continued operation of the 30 year rule under the National Archives Act, newspapers have ... -
Abortion admissions in rural Matebeleland North province
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2001-09)Abortions which are defined as the termination of a pregnancy with a duration of less than 22 weeks or delivery of a foetus of less than 500g rank among the top five causes for hospital admission of women in Zimbabwe. The ... -
Research and Consultancy Services in the Mining Industry in Zimbabwe: A Coordinated Approach Through the Mineral Resources Centre
(Institute of Mining Research (University of Zimbabwe), 2000-08)Education in the engineering fields can be considerably enhanced if it is designed to address the immediate and long-term needs of society. In this context education not only comprises the provision of basic training, but ... -
Patterns of land use pressure in communal areas of Zimbabwe
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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) in Central Africans
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2004-11)Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is a haematological malignancy characterized by monoclonal proliferation and accumulation of mature looking small lymphocytes particularly in the marrow, blood, lymph nodes and spleen.1-3 ... -
Echocardiographic profile of endomyocardial fibrosis in Tanzania, East Africa
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2004-09)Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is endemic in parts of Africa, South and Central America, and Asia, and occurs sporadically throughout the world.1-3 A few cases have been reported in Caucasians in temperate climates rarely ... -
Strategies For Coping With Food Deficits In Rural Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1989-12)The resourcefulness of African smallholders in the face of recurrent food deficits is often overlooked by professionals and officials concerned with food security. Food scarcity has provoked a wide range of interventions ... -
Use of culture methods for recovery of atypical mycobacteria from stools of AIDS patients
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2003-03)Objective: To establish recovery rates of atypical mycobateria from stools of suspected AIDS patients using culture media. Design: Laboratory evaluation of recovery rates, contamination rates, optimum exposure time and ... -
Urban Primacy And Regional Economic Development In The Third World
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ) (formerly Geographical Society of Rhodesia.), 1977-12)Many developing countries are now being persuaded that an appropriate urbanization strategy could provide them with one of the means of achieving the modernization of their societies (Mabogunje 1973). Unfortunately the ... -
The Maize Subsector in South Africa: Emerging Policy Issues
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension (AEE); University of Zimbabwe, 1992-10)As in much of Southern and Eastern Africa, the maize marketing system in South Africa is largely controlled by a government parastatal, the Maize Board. Although the past decade has seen several reforms in South Africa’s ... -
Cost Recovery and its Implications for Student Teachers in Government Teacher Education Colleges in Zimbabwe
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 1998-07)Cost recovery measures imposed on Third World nations have had a perversive impact on the social welfare of the poor. Education is one of the areas in which this impact has been experienced. In Zimbabwe, the introduction ... -
Nature of Science (NOS) in Science Education: Possibilities and Constraints in a Developing Country, Zimbabwe
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 1993-07)This paper examines contemporary thinking and understanding of the nature of science and science learning and attempts to show how this understanding can help African systems achieve their modem science and technology (S ... -
Production, distribution and problems experienced with health education materials in two districts of Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2004-03)The aim of Health Education ( HE) is to facilitate a process of learning to achieve behavior change. HE materials should be designed to meet the needs, problems and level of education of the target groups. The severe ... -
Reduced levels of chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum in selected foci of the South West Province, Cameroon
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2001-06)The objectives of this study were firstly to evaluate the state of chloroquine resistant malaria in the South West Province 13 years after it was first reported and secondly, to obtain accurate information on the prevalence ...
