Colonialist theatre education in Botswana

Gender Education through Creating Internet Theatre in Education

In Taiwan, gender equity and gender issues in education recently beginning to open up and become a hot topic in education. Curriculum materials are now being developed, professional publications are beginning to cover gender equity issues, a serious of professional workshops are devoting time to it, and individual teacher educators are starting to become concerned about it. In response to the e...

Secondary education and HIV infection in Botswana.

In a reanalysis of our results, Michelle Remme and colleagues (October, 2015) 2 found that “secondary schooling might [even] be as good an HIV investment as male circumcision”, not to mention more expensive biomedical options. As Remme and colleagues rightly point out, we had excluded from our costeff ectiveness calculations the myriad other benefi ts to secondary schooling beyond HIV. If the H...

ITEM System Usage in the Ministry of Education in Botswana

Using theatre in education in a traditional lecture oriented medical curriculum

BACKGROUND Lectures supported by theatrical performance may enhance learning and be an attractive alternative to traditional lectures. This study describes our experience with using theatre in education for medical students since 2001. METHODS The volunteer students, coached by experienced students, were given a two-week preparation period to write and prepare different dramatized headache sc...

The Impact of Tele-education on Learners in Open Distance Learning Environment in Botswana

This paper critically evaluates the impact of tele-education system on learners in open distance learning (ODL) in Botswana. It aims to assess the impact of Tele-education as a new ODL mode on learners at a college of Open Distance Learning in Botswana (CODLB). Assessing the impact and success of such implementation is essential to determine the effectiveness of invested efforts in terms of lea...