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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Rural South"”.
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"Courageous conversations": Rural South Georgia Teachers Reflecting on the Role of Race and Racism in the Education of Rural South Georgia Students
… was taught to thirty-seven teachers in a rural South Georgia school system. Eight of the teachers agreed to participate in this research project. The teachers, two Black females and six White females with teaching experience ranging from one to over twenty years, represented elementary, …
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Telecommunications Technology Transfer/Diffusion Model Into Rural South Africa
… the keys to sustainable national development in South Africa. Where other kinds of public infrastructure have collapsed, mobile operators are reaching people in rural areas (without roads, rails, or a stable power supply). Telecommunication also is a fast moving high-tech field where technology …
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Mentorship Perceptions of Women Principals in Rural South Georgia
… of the mentoring of women principals in rural South Georgia schools served as the goal of this mixed-method study. The results provided data for examination of the perceptions the women principals had of their mentoring experience and how their role as principal may have been affected as …
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Self-Regulated Learning In A Rural, South-Central Kentucky Middle School
… the presence of self-regulated learning in a rural middle school in the south-central United States by utilizing a phenomenological approach. </p> <p>Self-regulated learning is a practice based upon the constructivist learning theories championed by theorists such as Bandura (1995) and …
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Developing locally relevant applications for rural South Africa : a telemedicine example
… countries, there is a digital divide between rural and urban areas. In order to overcome this division, we need to provide locally relevant Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to these areas. Traditional software development methodologies are not suitable for developing …
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Quiet Awakening: Spinning Yarns from Granny's Table in the New Rural South
… doctoral student who negates the truths of a rural Southern upbringing steeped in issues of race, class and gender. . Building upon the works of Falk (2004), Freire (2002), He (2003, 2006, in-press), Weis (2006) and Weis and Fine (1998, 2003), I explored the arenas of place, class, and race, …
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Physical activity and gross motor skills in rural South African preschool children
… countries (LMICs). Statistics from the 2013 South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1) confirm that levels of overweight and obesity are high in South African preschool-aged children, with prevalence rates of overweight and obesity up to 18.2% and 4.7%, …
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Good Neighbors: Agents of Change in the New Rural South, 1900 to 1940
This work paints an intimate portrait of rural people who lived in the hill counties of northeast Mississippi and southwest Arkansas between 1900 and 1940. Howard County, Arkansas and Union County, Mississippi serve as the representative counties for each hill-country region. Howard County is …
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Aspects of the built environment of rural south west Lancashire, c.1880 - 1914
The traditional orthodoxy concerning the homes of rural workers in the nineteenth century is that they were of poor construction, badly maintained and with few amenities which could be described as domestic comforts. A sense of social and economic neglect of the rural labourer pervades the …
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An examinations of interventions strategies for learner dropout in rural South African High Schools
… strategies for learner drop-out in mral South African high schools at Tshilamba circuit m Limpopo province.The study adopted qualitative phenomenological research approach in which focus group interviews were conducted.Purposive sampling procedure was utilised to select 70 participants …
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The preventive and survival benefits of antiretroviral use in a rural South African community
… Hlabisa subdistrict of northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the first analysis I assess if antiretroviral therapy(ART) usage in the household is associated with a reduction in individual HIV acquisition risk. To my knowledge, this analysis is the first attempt to quantify the preventive …
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The impact of solid cooking fuels on the health of rural South African households
… specifically poor women and children residing in rural households. This study evaluates the impact of using solid cooking fuels on various health outcomes of residents in rural South Africa, using the nationally representative General Household Survey 2018. Propensity Score Matching Methods are …
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Adapting and responding to ICTs - a study of two municipalities in rural South Africa
The post - apartheid restructuring of South Africa's water sector has left the responsibility of planning, access and provision of water with local government. Local municipalities, which lack the " financial and human resources to deliver on their constitutional and legal mandate and on citizen …
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Environmental factors associated with atopic dermatitis in children in urban and rural South Africa
… urban living, and the absence of protective rural exposures, may contribute to the high prevalence of childhood atopic dermatitis (AD). Objectives: To identify environmental exposures associated with AD in children living in three residential areas of South Africa. Methods: A total of 3144 …
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The receptivity to housing policy initiatives: adequate and affordable housing in the rural south
… were examined. The study analyzed data from the Southern Regional Research Project, S-194, "Barriers and Incentives to Affordable Housing." Responses from 786 housing actors living and/or working in 28 communities in seven southern states were analyzed. A conceptual model was proposed to test the …
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Change and protest in the rural south: the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, 1934-1936
In the 1930's the southern tenancy system began to decline as plantation owners attempted to limit their debts in response to the Depression. Tenants were displaced and forced to work as casual day laborers. When the federal government passed crop restriction legislation, tenant displacement …
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Research on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV in rural south west Uganda, 1989-2010
… and prevention of HIV among adults in rural Masaka district, Uganda (1989-2010). Arising from this research are 10 published papers, which I have used to explore three research questions: (i) what are the trends in HIV prevalence and incidence in rural Uganda? (ii) what are the key …
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Responsible tourism in rural South Africa: lessons from two case studies on the Wild Coast
In Post-Apartheid South Africa tourism was seen as an important tool for economic development and poverty alleviation, especially in rural communities. The term Responsible Tourism was adopted by government in the 1996 White Paper and encouraged tourism that creates competitive advantage, maintains …
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The Relationship of Parental Stress and Social Support in Grandparent-headed Families in Rural South Dakota
… of grandparent-headed households living in rural South Dakota. A total of38 questionnaires were distributed to grandparents living in five rural counties in South Dakota. Twenty-one questionnaires were returned. The correlation index, using Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient …
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An investigation of poor women's micropreneurship and their experiences of microfinance in rural south-east Nigeria.
… one of the poorest, most disadvantaged groups - rural African women - perceive and experience microfinance in the context of extreme poverty. The study employed a qualitative method and purposefully sampled thirty poor rural women entrepreneurs in five villages of South-East Nigeria. Data …
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