Bøger af Tarashika Mashamba

Zimbabwean schools are grappling with indiscipline among secondary school goers coupled with low and fluctuating pass rates at secondary school level from year 2000 to date. Academic performance at Tafara high school has been fluctuating over a period of ten years, with the lowest recorded in 2004 and 2008. Another disturbing concern from the school authorities is a marked increase in deviant behaviour among the school children. Abnormal behaviour was profiled as militating against the realisation of educational goals in the area. The writer set out to investigate the effect of deviance on academic results among Tafara high school pupils in Bikita district in rural Zimbabwe. The writer specifically aimed at finding out from teachers how deviance influences academic results among learners at Tafara High School in Bikita, Zimbabwe.

The marriage institution is at crossroads. The professional marital therapists continue to be overwhelmed thus public programmes need to be supported in communities. Pastoral marital counselling at ZAOGA church level offers cutting edge solutions to sustaining marriages. Pastors are in touch every day and have potential to influence marital direction. The ZAOGA pastoral counsellors in Nyika District have what it takes to sustain unstable marriages among their married congregants. The divorce rate in ZAOGA is under check. The book supports the need to incorporate religious and spiritual concerns in psychotherapy as suggested by the DSM-IV edition of 1993 axis 1 category. ZAOGA, like many churches, has as a long history of volunteer work and service to the community.