{"title":"A position paper on the Quest for Education Quality and Inclusivity in Low Resource Environments such as Zimbabwe through Social Media","authors":"Mika Nyoni","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a13","url":null,"abstract":"Social media has revolutionised human interaction globally especially on the informal front. This paper proposes that the social media facility could be ‘tamed' to help bridge the educational divide that is apparent especially in developing countries such as Zimbabwe and that was magnified by the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic split education provision along income lines with those from the higher income bracket accessing educational instruction virtually even during such an ‘emergency' while those from the low income group were literally on sabbatical, virtually excluded. The obtaining scenario threatens realisation of Sustainable Development Goal Number 4 by 2030 as planned by the United Nations. The particular goal is aimed at ensuring \"inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all”. In some instances, some candidates get to the examination room so inadequately prepared that the situation can be described as de facto exclusion. In order to assist Covid-19 pandemic affected learners and to uplift education quality in low income communities, this paper recommends the provision of a tablet per class/grade that should be viewed as a learning/teaching tool. The class teacher can use the tablet to download material, show educational videos to the class, audio/video record learners for educational ends, receive educational materials from the Ministry and its partners and avail these in an interesting multimodal manner to the learners.","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87074251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using a Self-study Approach to revisit my lived experiences on Women Academic Leadership marred with Micro-management and Misuse of Power","authors":"K. L. Thaba-Nkadimene","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74791881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimizing the impact of “Bigmanism” in Zimbabwean Higher and Tertiary Education","authors":"Ignatious Nzero, Hope Musabayeka, J. Mapara","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88366883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Facinet Cisse, Liqing Zang, Hye-Sook Park, Norihiro Nishimura
{"title":"Creating a School, Family, and Community Partnership to Promote Better Learning Outcomes in Primary Schools in Conakry, Guinea - Drawing on the Japanese Community-Based Approach Experience","authors":"Facinet Cisse, Liqing Zang, Hye-Sook Park, Norihiro Nishimura","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77992296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science and Mathematics Teachers Participation in Professional Learning Community for Effective Teaching: The Case of Chang’ombe Demonstration School","authors":"Tumaini Mligo, Katherine Fulgence","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82094636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Service Quality and University Image on Student Loyalty: The Mediating Role of Student Satisfaction","authors":"Phineas Sebopelo, Joseph Evans Agolla","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"172 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79510901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Constructs to Scale Teacher Professional Development to Enhance Early Grade Reading in South Africa","authors":"Margaret Roper","doi":"10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2930/2023/v4n1a7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90743434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wendy Quetzal Morel Schramm, Pablo Ruz Salmones, Marcel Robischon
{"title":"The Handprint Initiative: Identifying learners’ attitudes towards the environment","authors":"Wendy Quetzal Morel Schramm, Pablo Ruz Salmones, Marcel Robischon","doi":"10.4314/sajee.v38i1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sajee.v38i1.09","url":null,"abstract":"The Handprint Initiative was born out of the need for a new pedagogical approach to deal with current global challenges. It is founded in the social responsibility of educators and learners to actively participate in the decision-making process of our society. To achieve this, there was the need for a statistical basis to measure learners’ attitudes towards the environment. A 19-item survey was used to determine five key attitudes in high school students in Mexico. With appropriate statistical tools (including PCA, KMO, normality tests and others), it was possible to measure ecocentrism, eco-apathy, naturalism, pessimism, and scientism attitudes and to confirm the data of other studies. The results of this study contribute to assessment of the impact of the way we teach, as well as the promotion of quality education and the implementation of the Handprint Initiative.
 Keywords: handprint; attitudes towards environment; eco-apathy; sustainability, quantitative study","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wendy Quetzal Morel Schramm, Pablo Ruz Salmones, Marcel Robischon
{"title":"The Handprint Initiative: Identifying learners’ attitudes towards the environment","authors":"Wendy Quetzal Morel Schramm, Pablo Ruz Salmones, Marcel Robischon","doi":"10.4314/sajee.v38i.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/sajee.v38i.09","url":null,"abstract":"The Handprint Initiative was born out of the need for a new pedagogical approach to deal with current global challenges. It is founded in the social responsibility of educators and learners to actively participate in the decision-making process of our society. To achieve this, there was the need for a statistical basis to measure learners’ attitudes towards the environment. A 19-item survey was used to determine five key attitudes in high school students in Mexico. With appropriate statistical tools (including PCA, KMO, normality tests and others), it was possible to measure ecocentrism, eco-apathy, naturalism, pessimism, and scientism attitudes and to confirm the data of other studies. The results of this study contribute to assessment of the impact of the way we teach, as well as the promotion of quality education and the implementation of the Handprint Initiative. \u0000Keywords: handprint; attitudes towards environment; eco-apathy; sustainability, quantitative study","PeriodicalId":33490,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76852274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}