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Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes for HIV/AIDS Among Ugandan Grade 11 Students
(Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2007)
This article looks at the importance of student-generated analogies, metaphors, and similes
as an entry point into their understandings of HIV/AIDS. In addition, it argues that
analogies, metaphors, and similes are good ...
Experiments in Visual Analysis: (Re)positionings of children and youth in relation to Larger Sociocultural Issues
(2007)
One of the most distinctive features of the 21st Century is the dominance of the visual and
its relationship to multiple modalities of communication. Human experience is more visual and
visualized than ever before ...
The impact of helminths on the response to immunization and on the incidence of infection and disease in childhood in Uganda: design of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, factorial trial of deworming interventions delivered in pregnancy and early childhood [ISRCTN32849447]
(Society for Clinical Trials, 2007)
Helminths have profound effects on the immune response, allowing long-term survival of parasites with minimal damage to the host. Some of these effects “spill-over”, altering responses to non-helminth antigens or allergens. ...
User fees in private non-for-profit hospitals in Uganda: a survey and intervention for equity
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2005)
Background: In developing countries, user fees may represent an important source of revenues
for private-non-for-profit hospitals, but they may also affect access, use and equity.
Methods: This survey was conducted in ...
Meeting the Challenge of Health Literacy in Rural Uganda: The Critical Role of Women and Local Modes of Communication
(Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007)
This article seeks to better understand the relation between local and traditional
modes of communication and health literacy within the context of a rural West Nile
community in Northern Uganda. Drawing on social semiotics ...
Languaging for life: African youth talk back to HIV/AIDS research
(Language Policy, 2008)
In this article, we present a case study, undertaken in Uganda, in which
12 young people debated and critiqued four research articles on HIV/AIDS relevant
to Ugandan youth. The rationale for the study was to provide ...
‘Talk what others think you can’t talk’: HIV/AIDS clubs as peer education in Ugandan schools
(Compare, 2007)
The clubs will do peer education; the clubs will be a forum for affected students to
share their experiences. (HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor, Ministry of Education, 4
October 2004)
The clubs extend what we do in the ...
Multimodality and English education in Ugandan schools
(English Studies in Africa, 2006)
In all societies children have many layers of representational resources
Ia vailable to them. Play, movement, song, drama, language and artistic activity are but some of the modalities by which they learn to make sense
of ...
ICT on the Margins: Lessons for Ugandan Education
(Language and Education, 2007)
In this end piece, we argue that while this special issue shifts debates on the digital
divide to address students’ capacity to use Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) for productive social purposes, access ...
Grand narratives of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and their contribution to the current conflicts
(Mtafiti Mwafrika (African Researcher), 2003)
The strategy of this paper is to draw attention to the influence of narrative and group
identities to the current conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. It argues that past
memories, passed over to the present generation ...