IER FLAMBEAU

Institutional Capacity and Preparedness to Current Higher Education Trends, KCTE Trajectory Discourse

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This paper analyzes the long tradition and present capacity of Kotebe
College of Teacher Education in terms of both human and material infrastructure.
This is done in light of current legal provisions of Ethiopia and elsewhere. Following
this lived experience in the area of teacher education, legislative provisions, and
geographical situatedness, it is argued that the College can better contribute to
access and quality education to Addis Ababa City and to that of the country as a
whole. To that end, data on its capacity and preparedness were garnered from
documents, stakeholders, and professionals. The data heeds to a concluding
remark that given its capacity, tradition, legislative provisions, access demanded,
and observed experiences, the College be elevated to a university of some sortState or City State University of Addis Ababa.

Coping Strategies used by Teachers and Students at Addis Ababa University

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Anxiety and language learning are highly interwoven. It is obvious that for
many students language courses are the most anxiety-provoking courses they take
(Kondo & Ying-Ling, 2004). This happened due to the fact that language classes are
interactive and students are asked to reveal themselves in a way which seems to be very
threatening. In view of this, it is imperative for teachers to understand the existence of
anxiety in language classes and the coping strategies used by teachers and students.
Thus, the objective of this study is to figure out the coping strategies employed by both
students and teachers. The participants of the study were both teachers and students
drawn from the English Department at Addis Ababa University. The study was completely
qualitative and it used interview and focus group discussion for data collection. The
results of the study portrayed that students used avoiding participation and shortening
presentation as mechanisms to reduce anxiety whereas teachers employed strategies
such as forming close proximity with students, grouping students, brainstorming, giving
extra time, briefing about mistakes and making learning resources available to reduce
anxiety. Furthermore, other coping strategies have been suggested based on the findings
of the study.

Studying Self-concept: A Philosophical Analysis

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William James in Attwater (1990, p. 163) said, “Whenever two people meet,
there are really six people present. There is each person as he sees himself,
each person as the other person sees him, and each person as he really is."
Is it then at all possible to discover the person in each of us? Is this a myth
or a reality? To me and to a scientific realist, we have hidden ourselves in
the layers of our public, private and ideal selves that our unique essence, the
core of ourselves, a true but unobservable mind independent entities.
Adding to this, Gross (1992), believes that we have special relationship with
ourselves, which is invisible to others, unless we ourselves expose and
make it known, manifested. We are both subject and object. We are selfconscious or self-aware. In line with this, Gross (1992, p.607) mentioned, "...
The same person, the same self, is subject and object, knower and known,
thinker and thought about, seer and seen,” that can be empirically studied,
explained and understood. Antirealists oppose such rational thinking. They
believe only in objective reality and reject the T-terms, which will be
discussed latter in this article. The purpose of this article is to show that selfconcept can be explored scientifically, explained and understood. That is, I
am attempting to relate self- concept with scientific realism which
demonstrate the existence of change (development) and manifestation of
self-concept. Hence, in the paper an attempt has been made to discuss the
definition and elaboration of scientific realism, antirealism, self-concept, the
place of essentialism and some practical examples in relation to hard of
hearing children.

Quantitative Research: From Scholars’ Paradigm Debate to Students’ Psychological Anxiety

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