FACULTY OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

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EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS: HUMAN INTAKE, EMERGING HEALTH RISKS, AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
Few earlier reviews on emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) in drinking water systems (DWS) focused on their
detection, behaviour, removal and fate. Reviews on multiple exposure pathways, human intake estimates, and
health risks including…

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:THE CASE OF ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY, MASHONALAND CENTRALREGIONAL LIBRARY
Distance education at tertiary level in Zimbabwe has been widely accepted and adopted by many
people. More often, distance education students face difficulties in getting required information
to complete assignments and prepare for examinations.…

INDIGENOUS MEDICINAL KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AMONG THE MAUNGWE PEOPLE: MAKONI<br /><br />
DISTRICT - ZIMBABWE
The study interrogated the intergenerational transfer of indigenous medicinal knowledge and
the psychology underpinning indigenous healing among the Maungwe people of Makoni
District. The overarching research question was how do indigenous medical…

AN EXPLORATION OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF DEAF PEOPLE IN ACCESSING,<br /><br />
PARTICIPATING AND COMPLETING HIGHER EDUCATION IN ZIMBABWE
The study qualitatively employed the phenomenology design to explore the
experiences of the 32 participants selected through snowballing and purposive
sampling to establish the extent to which Zimbabwean Universities enabled deaf
people to access,…

AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF<br /><br />
OFFENDER REHABILITATION POLICIES IN ZIMBABWE
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of offender
rehabilitation policies in Zimbabwe prisons in light of the efforts by stakeholders to
reform offenders. The primary objective of the study was to establish the extent…

PEACEBUILDING AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION: A<br /><br />
STUDY OF TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF CONFLICT<br /><br />
TRANSFORMATION IN ZIMBABWE
Beginning from the early 2000s, communities in Zimbabwe witnessed the worst forms of
politically motivated violence by state agents as well as civilian on civilian clashes at grassroots
levels. Efforts to resolve contemporary Zimbabwean politically…

UNPACKING EDUTAINMENT FOR CHILDREN<br /><br />
DEVELOPMENT WITHIN COMMUNITY RESOURCE<br /><br />
CENTRES IN GWERU, ZIMBABWE
n the past decades, children used to acquire valuable insights and knowledge through storytelling and
folklore sessions from adults within the community, schools and libraries. Such sessions, termed educational
entertainment (edutainment), used to…

TWENTY FIRST CENTURY AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES FOR<br /><br />
INMATES IN ZIMBABWE PRISONS
The study was set to establish the extent to which Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional
Services (ZPCS) provide rehabilitation and correctional services. World over, people are
imprisoned after the courts have found them to be guilt of an offence.…

RELEVANCE OF MIXED METHODS<br /><br />
RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING A<br /><br />
FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITISING<br /><br />
RECORDS AND ARCHIVES<br /><br />
GODFREY TSVUURA
This chapter discusses the relevance of mixed methods research in developing a framework for digitising
records and archives. Mixed methods research has never been extensively used to find solution to the
problems experienced in digitising records…

© ESARBICA ISSN 2220-6442 | ESARBICA JOURNAL, VOL. 40, 2021<br /><br />
CREATION AND STORAGE OF RECORDS IN THE CLOUD BY ZIMBABWE<br /><br />
OPEN UNIVERSITY
This study investigated the challenges and prospects of creating and storing records in
the cloud by Zimbabwe Open University in Zimbabwe. Like other universities in
Zimbabwe, the university adopted Education 5.0 advocated by the government…

A FRAMEWORK FOR THE DIGITISATION OF RECORDS AND ARCHIVES<br /><br />
AT SELECTED STATE UNIVERSITIES IN ZIMBABWE
This research study investigates the digitisation of records and archives at two selected state
universities in Zimbabwe, namely, Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) and Harare Institute of
Technology (HIT). The two state universities have embarked on…

DIGITISATION OF RECORDS AND ARCHIVES AT TWO SELECTED<br /><br />
STATE UNIVERSITIES IN ZIMBABWE
This study focused on the digitisation of records and archives at two selected state universities in
Zimbabwe, namely Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) and Harare Institute of Technology (HIT).
The specific objective was to evaluate the legal and…

THE ROLE OF TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RECORDS AND<br /><br />
ARCHIVES MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINE IN ZIMBABWE
This work sought to explore the role of tertiary education institutions in the
development of the records and archives management discipline in Zimbabwe. The paper
assessed the contributions made by the few tertiary institutions offering records…

THE VALUE OF AN INFORMATION POLICY
Information policy is the glue that holds the proper management of information for nations and
organisations. Information if not well managed poses challenges to privacy and confidentiality, intellectual
rights, security, reliability,…

THE USAGE OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES AT ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY<br /><br />
MIDLANDS LIBRARY, GWERU, ZIMBABWE
he advent of electronic resources in academic
circles towards the end of the 20th
I. INTRODUCTION
century presaged a fresh
landmark for research and scholarship as the innovation
offered academics and scholars in universities with…

THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTRE IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT<br /><br />
WITHIN SELECTED SCHOOLS IN MIDLANDS AND MASHONALAND CENTRAL,<br /><br />
ZIMBABWE
The role played by school libraries in ensuring academic excellence has been vividly overlooked
in most literature, and within Zimbabwe in particular. Therefore, this article looked at the
contribution of the school library media centre towards the…

THE RELEVANCE OF COUNSELLING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CLIENTS WHO<br /><br />
ARE PHYSICALLY DISABLED AT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL:<br /><br />
IMPLICATIONS TO PRACTICING COUNSELLORS
Society attaches a stigma to many forms of disability and this leads to prejudicial treatment. The birth of a child with a
disability or chronic illness, or the discovery that a child has a disability, has a profound effect on a family. People…

HE LOW LIBRARY USAGE BY UNIVERSITY<br /><br />
STUDENTS: A CASE ON ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY<br /><br />
MIDLANDS REGIONAL LIBRARY, GWERU, ZIMBABWE
The Zimbabwe Open University Midlands regional library acts as a back bone for the Zimbabwe
Open University Midlands Region, as it has in place resources and services meant to cater for
the diverse library needs of its stakeholders, at the same…

SUPPORT FOR VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION (VMMC) FOR HIV PREVENTION AMONG MEN AND WOMEN IN ZIMBABWE
Background: Medical male circumcision was introduced in Zimbabwe in 2009 as an additional HIV
prevention method. This study sought to investigate support for the roll-out of voluntary medical male
circumcision (VMMC) and men’s willingness to get…

SELECTED SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES: ACCESS TO AND USE OF POTABLE WATER BY<br /><br />
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN NYAKATONDO AND FOYA VILLAGES (MOUNT<br /><br />
DARWIN DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE)
The purpose of the study was to analyse access to potable water by people with disabilities in
Nyakatondo and Foya villages in Mount Darwin district. This district is located in Mashonaland
Central Province in Zimbabwe. The study was influenced by…
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