LSSR Volume 9 Nos 1 & 2: Recent submissions

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The United States of America’s rise to power within the context of European diplomatichistory: An overview

Khati, Thekiso G. (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

The essay indicates how European diplomatic history of the 19th and 20th centuries is linked tothe USA’s rise to power. This matter is as relevant today as it was in the past. The paper alsobriefly discusses the role of ...
Basotho First Year University Students’ Understanding of Variability in a ProbabilisticContext

Polaki, M. V. (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

The ability to recognize and understand variability plays a key role in enabling people tomake valid probabilistic and statistical decisions. We leave in an information-driven societywhere important decisions are often ...
Overcoming The Numbers Paradigm In The Application of Statistics as a Science: A Re-Examination of The Concepts of Measurement, Data and Variable

Mutabihirwa, Venant R.N. (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

Statistics started as a practice of collecting and keeping facts on the various aspects of social-economic activities of society. This art of collecting and keeping facts can be traced somenumber of years B.C. in the ...
A Study of Academic Performance of Females and Males: An Empirical Analysis basedon two faculties of the National University of Lesotho

Maqutu, D.; Wencheko, E. (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

The paper gives empirical results about the overall academic performance of five batches ofgraduates from the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Social Sciences.The purpose of undertaking the study was ...
Effectiveness of the Bachelor of Education in Development Studies Programme: Viewsof Development Studies Teachers and School Head Teachers

Seotsanyana, ’Malimpho E. (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

The study investigated the perceptions of Development Studies Teachers and school headteachers on the effectiveness of the Bachelor of Education in Development Studiesprogramme (BEDS) of the National ...
Use and Abuse of Substances Among Young People in Lesotho: Evidence fromQualitative Research

Tuoane, Maletela; Kimane, Itumeleng; Molise, Ngoakoane (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

The World Health Organisation has stated that adolescence is a time of experimentation,exploration, curiosity and search for identity. All these lead to unhealthy lifestyles and risktaking behaviours such as the use of ...
The Shifting Perceptions on Development and Poverty in The 1990s

Set`sabi, Set`sabi (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

The 1990s saw significant changes in perception towards the nature and causes of poverty aswell as strategies to alleviate it. Most significantly, definitions of poverty have broadened itbeyond simply income ...
The Impact of Poverty on Children’s Human Rights

Kimane, Itumeleng (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

Much has been said and written about the private sector development since the 1990’s whenthe concept became in vogue. Yet little remains either documented or known about theinternal workings of the ...
Poverty in Lesotho: A Case Study and Policy Options

Omole, Davidson A. (Lesotho Social Sciences Reviews, 2003)

This paper attempted to provide an overview of poverty in Lesotho, which is regarded as oneof the poorest countries in the world (UNDP,1996). About 84 per cent of the population livesin rural villages characterized by ...

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