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Literacy and learning practices at home and school in rural Zimbabwe: The real pedagogical dilemmas
Jacob Marriote Ngwaru
In recent years research has tried to address factors that influence the African child's educational achievement. This book is a thick layer to the existing debate. Literacy and learning practices of children at home and school in rural Zimbabwe reveal some of these reasons. Critical and auto-ethnographic methodologies are employed to gain insight into the lives of rural communities in order to identify the underlying causes of poor educational achievement. Application of a number of theoretical perspectives expose underlying negative coercive relations of power in the community, the need for greater appreciation of the embeddedness of larger social practices in pedagogic enterprise and the fact that issues of language, education and culture tend to conceal relations of domination and subordination in the schooling system. This fresh approach, methodology and debate should be of great interest to university students, teachers college students, researchers, university and college lecturers as well as education policy makers and teachers of English as a second language in Sub- Saharan Africa.
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Samtidsislam – Unga muslimer i Malmö och Köpenhamn
Jonas Otterbeck
This interview based study of young adults with a Muslim family background also resulted in articles in English, see below.
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Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale
Stephane Pradines
Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale Monographies d’archéologie islamique, IFAO, Le Caire, 302 p.
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Electronic healthcare information security
Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, and Fredrick Mtenzi
The legal developments in healthcare have been driven by the public concern for personal privacy and confidentiality within the context of an increasingly connected world centred on the Internet. The developments in standardisation within e-Healthcare have been influenced by the two key paradigms of patient-centred and managed care that necessitated demands for lowering costs and increasing quality of patient care. The technical challenge of these paradigm shifts is inter-operability for supporting the delivery of care at multiple locations by multiple carers who need to share the patient health record
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Islam : Between Message and History
Abdelmadjid Charfi, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Sikeena Karmali Ahmed, and David Bond
This book could easily be called ‘A Guide for the Modern Muslim’, someone for whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a prescriptive education.
Charfi spells out what for him is the essential message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through the person of the Prophet Muhammad, whom he perceives as a visionary seeking to change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which he lived. Charfi delineates the message and its history as two separate elements, conflated by tradition.
Charfi confronts with great lucidity the difficult questions with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them from a moral and political perspective independent of traditional frameworks.
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Foundation clinical nursing skills
Charles Docherty and Jacqueline McCallum
First year nursing students require a firm foundation in clinical skills in order to succeed on placement, and in their studies. It is not enough to know how to perform a skill - today's students must understand how clinical skills link to biology, holistic care, safety and clinical evidence before they can undertake and master skills on placement. When starting out, it has been difficult to link theory to practice, especially across a range of patients, until now! Foundation Clinical Nursing Skills provides a clear introduction to both the knowledge and practical procedures that first year nursing students require. Without assuming prior knowledge, the authors carefully describe each element of a skill and demonstrate how it should be performed correctly on any patient and in any setting. Covering the NMC's Essential Skills Clusters for first year students, straightforward language explains the biology, evidence-base and rationale so students know why to perform each skill in that way. Colour illustrations and selected video clips show students how to perform a skill. Scenarios and tips show how care is given to children, adults and those people with learning disabilities or experiencing mental health problems. Examples are taken from community and hospital settings ensuring students can deliver skills on every placement. Supporting evidence, protocols and guidelines are reviewed and updated every three months on our free dedicated Online Resource Centre (which includes extra activities and teaching tools). Designed specifically to help first year students get off to the best start possible, Foundation Clinical Nursing Skills provides a high quality and student friendly account of the skills that are required at this stage of the course. On the Online Resource Centre: For registered lecturers and mentors: - Tips for teaching and assessing clinical skills - Figures from the book, ready to download and use in teaching material For students: - Evidence, guidelines and protocols, reviewed and updated every three months - Video demonstration of key skills - Over forty interactive scenarios and fifty interactive self-test questions - Active web links provide a gateway to the articles cited in the book - Flashcard glossary to help learn key terms - Links to useful websites
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Volume 1: The Challenge of Pluralism : Paradigms from Muslim Contexts
Abdou Filali-Ansary and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
The volume discusses notions of pluralism and its specific relevance to Muslim societies. Current popular and academic discussions tend to make certain assumptions regarding Islam and its lack of compatibility with notions of pluralism. Some notable liberal thinkers have even argued that pluralism itself is inherently antithetical to Islam.
These assumptions are challenged by discussing the broad spectrum of relevance and application of the notion of pluralism to modern day societies, examining securalism, multiculturalism, democracy, globalisation and the pivotal role of civil society.
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Encyclopaedias about Muslim Civilisations
Aptin Khanbaghi
Over the past 150 years, numerous encyclopaedias have been produced on Muslim civilisations, both by Muslims and non-Muslims, with different approaches to the organisation of knowledge and understanding of Muslim beliefs, cultures and societies. Access to and knowledge of these reference works and databases have until now been hindered by language barriers. The first volume in the MCA series seeks to overcome this obstacle by presenting material in three languages: English, Arabic and Turkish.
This is a unique reference catalogue containing 200 annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopaedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Upside down
Peter Kimani
A children’s novel inspired by post-election violence of 2007/8, the book examines Kenya’s contemporary history through the eyes of an 11-year old. The book is widely read in Kenyan schools as it features in the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development’s list of recommended texts.
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Emerging issues in TEFL : Challenges for Asia
Sabiha Mansoor, Aliya Sikandar, Nasreen Hussain, and Nasreen M. Ahsan
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Schools and schoolings practices in Pakistan : Lessons for policy and practice
Rashida Qureshi and Fauzia Shamim
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Volume 2: Development Models in Muslim Contexts : Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-liberal Alternatives
Robert Springborg
Recent discussions of the 'Chinese economic development model', the emergence of an alternative 'Muslim model' over the past quarter century and the faltering globalisation of the 'Washington Consensus' all point to the need to investigate more systematically the nature of these models and their competitive attractions.
This is especially the case in the Muslim world which both spans different economic and geographic categories and is itself the progenitor of a development model.
The 'Chinese model' has attracted the greatest attention in step with that country's phenomenal growth and therefore provides the primary focus for this book. This volume examines the characteristics of this model and its reception in two major regions of the world - Africa and Latin America.
It also investigates the current competition over development models across Muslim contexts. The question of which model or models, if any, will guide development in Muslim majority countries is vital not only for them, but for the world as a whole. This is the first political economy study to address this vital question as well as the closely related issue of the centrality of governance to development.
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Sehat-1: Pehli Class: Asatza aur sehat ke karkuno ke liye aik gaed
Tashmin Kassam-Khamis, Farah Shivji, and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta
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Sehat-2: Dosri Class: Asatza aur sehat ke karkuno ke liye aik gaed
Tashmin Kassam-Khamis, Farah Shivji, and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta
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Sehat-3: Tesri Class: Asatza aur sehat ke karkuno ke liye aik gaed
Tashmin Kassam-Khamis, Farah Shivji, and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta
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Sehat-4: Chothhi Class: Asatza aur sehat ke karkuno ke liye aik gaed
Tashmin Kassam-Khamis, Farah Shivji, and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta
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Sehat-5: Panchven Class: Asatza aur sehat ke karkuno ke liye aik gaed
Tashmin Kassam-Khamis, Farah Shivji, and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta
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Early childhood development: From understanding to initiatives
Bushra Khan, Hasan Bin Hamza, Saima Akhund, Syed Ahsan Raza, Abdul Wajid, and Tazeen Saeed Ali
Despite the wide array of theoretical frameworks and research in the discipline of child development, there is a dearth of guidance to implement that knowledge in real world settings. This book nicely bridges the gap between theory and practice and successfully presents the integration of psychology, sociology, and public health of early childhood development in the much needed cross cultural context of the developing countries. The book takes this interdisciplinary approach a step further, and provides a detailed account to conceptualise and implement community based programmes to achieve optimal early childhood development. The text is developed on the belief that organised effort to ensure a better future for our children requires a basic understanding of principles of their growth and development, and skills to scientifically observe them.
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