Book review: Cracking knuckles: The failure of moral vision in James Ng'ombe's sugarcane with salt (London: Longman group U.K. Ltd., 1989) 124 pages, price Mk 30

Cracking knuckles: The failure of moral vision in James  Ng'ombe's sugarcane with salt (London: Longman group U.K. Ltd., 1989) 124 pages, price Mk 3

Opinion : The panopticon in Malawi's literary criticism

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Toward an integrated model of first and second language acquisition

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The heathen for thine inheritance: Early missionary poetry in Malawi 1893-1901

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Stories on Sapitwa: An overview of Lipenga's fiction

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The acquisition of syntactic tone: The case of Chichewa negation

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Should touch screen tablets be used to improve educational outcomes in primary school children in developing countries?

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (United Nations, 2015). Whereas, the principal focus of global education planning since 2000 had been on getting children into schools, sustainable development goal 4 (above) reflects concerns about quality. As improving learning outcomes starts to receive heightened policy focus, it becomes imperative to consider the types of intervention that can be most effective in raising learning outcomes, particularly in settings characterized by poor resourcing and persistent low attainment levels. Here, we consider if touch screen tablets can be used to improve educational outcomes in primary school children in developing countries. We focus on early maths attainment in Malawi as one of the most dramatic examples of the current learning challenge

Book review: The power of discourse: an introduction to discourse analysis

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