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Africanising Distributed Leadership in Environmental Education Curriculum Management 环境教育课程管理中的分布式领导非洲化

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v39i.11

Nonkanyiso Pamella Shabalala, M. Gumbo

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Green Man You Owe Me: Surprises using puppetry with rural children in environmental education 你欠我的绿人：在环境教育中使用木偶戏为农村儿童带来惊喜

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v39i.10

Carol Preston

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Green Man You Owe Me: Surprises using puppetry with rural children in environmental education 你欠我的绿人：在环境教育中使用木偶戏为农村儿童带来惊喜

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v39i.10

Carol Preston

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Africanising Distributed Leadership in Environmental Education Curriculum Management 环境教育课程管理中的分布式领导非洲化

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v39i.11

Nonkanyiso Pamella Shabalala, M. Gumbo

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Content analysis of public debt in prescribed undergraduate South African economics textbooks 南非经济学本科规定教材中公共债务的内容分析

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n2a3

Farai Nyika, Meshel Muzuva, Shame Mugova, M. Muzekenyi

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Perceptions of employees on performance management in public higher education institutions in Zimbabwe 津巴布韦公立高等教育机构员工对绩效管理的看法

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n2a12

Elias Rashidi

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Our school leadership needs! Voices of Teachers in Charge of Multigrade-satellite primary schools in Zimbabwe 我们学校的领导需要!津巴布韦多年级卫星小学教师之声

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n2a11

Godfrey Jakachira, Bernard Chingwanangwana, P. Chimbunde

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Determinants of Career Choice and Personality Traits of University Students 大学生职业选择与人格特质的决定因素

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n2a4

Augustine Owusu-Addo

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The Girls’ Vocational Training Centre at Cape Coast in Colonial Ghana: A Model of Transformational Leadership and Restructuring of Traditional Concept of Gender 加纳殖民地海岸角女童职业培训中心:变革型领导模式和传统性别观念的重构

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n2a5

Philip Oti-Agyen

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Basic Education under Surveillance: Engaging the Rwandan Government on Deploying English Language as a Medium of Instruction 监督下的基础教育:让卢旺达政府参与部署英语作为教学媒介

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n2a9

Felix Makonye, Eustina Mudhumo

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