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My interest is to understand the interactions between soil and litter arthropods, particularly insects, and their environment (soil, leaf-litter, plants, symbiosis) to promote ecological functions of soil and litter arthropods and biodiversity conservation. Taxonomy of soil and litter arthropods, particularly ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is the main focus in this area of study and is considered as a key in the management of all types of ecosystems.
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span lang="EN-US">Students in secondary schools in Rwanda manifest difficulties in learning science subjects including biology. Studies revealed that inadequate teaching methods dominated by teacher-centered traditional or conventional educational strategies are some of the factors that cause difficulties in learning, which in turn leads to poor ac...
Teaching methods dominated by teacher demonstration, chalk and talk, have been attributed as the main source of negative attitudes towards biology. This study aimed to explore the impact of enquiry-based learning on students’ attitudes towards biology. The study comprised 228 students purposely selected from six secondary schools. Focus-roup discus...
Sub-Saharan Africa secondary school science curricula recognise language as the most important communication tool for learners’ biology learning outcomes. Despite this prominent goal, learners’ scientific literacy at secondary school appears to be insufficient to cope with classroom teaching and learning of biology. This paper presents a review of...
Attitude has been regarded as a motivating feeling for the learning of biology. However, how inquiry-based learning contributes to attitude change towards the learning of biology has not yet been studied in Rwanda. This study intends to determine the effect of inquiry-based learning on students’ attitudes toward learning biology. A sample of 228 se...
Biology continues to present difficulties in teaching and learning. Among other biology domains classification of living things is considered to be one of the challenging subjects as different studies indicated students’ misconceptions in the test to classify both plants and animals. Inadequate teaching methods were the core source of these challen...
The purpose of this study was to assess how the Inquiry Based Learning approach supports the development of students’ academic language proficiency in invertebrate systematic. The study was framed by Halliday’s sociolinguistic approach to learning. A total of 50 classroom observation sessions at 10 schools were conducted: 10 before and 40 after the...
To assesseffects of land use change on soil and litter arthropods, a research was conducted inexotic and native tree species at the Artboretum of Ruhande and in varieties of coffee andbanana plantations at the Rubona agricultural research station, in southern Rwanda. Datawere collected by pitfall traps, hand sorting, and Berlese-Tullgren funnels. C...
Different tree speciesare blamed to have negative effects on soil ecosystems by changing soil physicochemical properties, and hence soil quality. However, few researches to verify this statement were done in Rwanda. This study provides prior information on the effects of planted forest tree species on soil physicochemical properties. It was conduct...
The use of soil and litter arthropods as biological indicators is a way to assess environmental changes, where ant species in particular may serve as important indicators of soil quality. This study aimed at relating the abundance of soil and litter ant species to soil parameters under different tree species, both native and exotic, and varieties o...
This research presents a case study on perceptions of local people on the use of Nyabrongo river wetland and its conservation in Rwanda. It critically examines the potential implications of a shift in wetland use and management practices for local people and presents empirical data from a household survey, group discussions, and observations from t...
Tropical rain forests are inhabited by a wide range of plant and animal diversity. However, little is known about the diversity of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species in these areas. To fill the gap, a study has been conducted in seven sites inside Nyungwe National Park, a tropical rain forest located in South-Western Rwanda. Data have been colle...
