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Nampombe Saurombe; Isabel Schellnack-Kelly – Education for Information, 2024
History helps society understand its past and its influence on the present and future. South Africa is a country with a unique history, comprising of varying accounts from the different people that make up its 'rainbow' nation. In 2018, South Africa's Department of Basic Education; announced that history would be a compulsory subject for learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Archives, History Instruction, Secondary Education
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Kolaric, Alica; Stricevic, Ivanka – Education for Information, 2021
This paper presents the main methodological issues met with during the research on adolescent everyday life information behavior in the context of making informed decisions, which was carried out in Croatia from 2018 to 2020. It does not focus on the research results, but rather on the methodological issues and concerns that had occurred stemming…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Decision Making, Information Seeking, Research Methodology
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Poy, Raquel; García, Marcos – Education for Information, 2019
Digital games have a greater ease of construction of new meanings in a virtual world, more affordable, simple and comprehensible by the students than the real world, and in which the individual differences that occur in the real world tend to fade thanks to the interpretation of a character with different characteristics from the real ones.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Game Based Learning, Video Games, Role Playing
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Nyagowa, Hesbon O.; Ocholla, Dennis N.; Mutula, Stephen M. – Education for Information, 2013
This study was conducted to determine the effect of a set of dimensions on e-School success in a cross-sectional study of NEPAD's e-School pilot in Kenya. All of the six e-Schools participating in the NEPAD's e-School pilot in Kenya were selected. The study used survey methodology. Students and teachers in those schools formed the study…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Foreign Countries, User Satisfaction (Information), Pilot Projects
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Mokhtar, Intan Azura; Majid, Shaheen – Education for Information, 2006
Information literacy has been a popular slogan in the education sector since it was first used in the 1970s. Despite extensive recognition of the importance of information literacy in education and learning, its importance in the school curriculum has not yet been fully recognized. This paper discusses the importance of information literacy and…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Teaching Methods
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Albright, Kendra S.; Gavigan, Karen – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
HIV/AIDS infections are growing at an alarming rate for young adults. In 2009, youth, ages 13-29, accounted for 39% of all new HIV infections in the U.S. (Division of HIV/ AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 2011). South Carolina ranks eighth in the nation for new HIV cases, while the capital city of Columbia ranks seventh…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Teaching Methods, Prevention, Health Promotion