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    Children’s Basic Needs and Enrolment in Early Childhood Education: Pre-school Education
    (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010) Murungi, Catherine
    Human beings spend a great deal of time working towards provision of their basic needs. Provision of such basic needs is particularly important not only to adults but also to pre-school children. Available literature shows that enrolment of children in pre-school is low. The researcher believes that failure to adequately meet basic needs such as food, shelter and health care leads to children's low enrolment in pre-school and in other levels of education. The study reveals that there is a relationship between parental provision of basic needs and children's enrollment in pre-school. This book was writen after a doctoral research that was conducted on Children's Basic Needs and Enrolment in Early Childhood Education in Miriga Mieru West Division of Imenti North District, Kenya. The author believes that children's basic needs must be met adequately to be able to increase enrolments and retention rates of children in pre-school education and in other levels of education. This book will be useful to Parents, teachers, trainers, policy makers and experts in Early Childhood Education. The book also provides information on how to improve enrollments in education at all levels.
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    Educational Psychology: Determinants of preschool teachers attitudes towards teaching
    (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010) Mweru, Maureen; Kinuthia, Florence; Kombo, Donald
    Pre-school teachers are largely demotivated. This is due to various reasons,such as, prevalence of low level training among them. The profession is still viewed as a job for women. They are unhappy with their salaries and many are not in welfare groups. This book contributes insights into this significant areas that greatly affect the provision of pre- school level education.It points out that immediate changes need to be put in place in order to give the profession a human face and to better motivate the teachers.
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    Vocabulary Spurt in Early Childhood Development: A Case of 18-24 Months Old Rural Children in Kenya
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013-05-10) Wanjohi, Peter Githinji
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    School Homework as a Method of Teaching and Learning
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018) Wanyore, Lucy Kinuthia; Murungi, Catherine Gakii
    Pre-primary school children need positive early learning experiences to help their intellectual, social and emotional development. This lays the foundation for later school success. As a learning strategy, pre-primary school teachers give school homework to help children practice what they learn in class. Despite the many studies carried out on benefits of school homework in primary and secondary school levels, researchers claim that school homework is not beneficial to pre-primary school children. This is because they are already tired after being in school the whole day and they need time to relax and play.
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    Games as a Medium for Teaching Mathematical Concepts
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018) Njoroge, Antony Fredrick Gitau; Murungi, Catherine Gakii
    Basic early childhood mathematics is broader and deeper than mere practice of counting and adding. Past studies have proposed that children learn through social interaction and actively exploring concepts with their peers, and that mathematics games are valuable for stimulating and encouraging mathematics learning. However, little studies have been carried to ascertain this claim. The purpose of this book is to establish the use of games as a medium of teaching mathematical concepts. The specific objectives of the study were: to establish the mathematical games used in teaching mathematics in pre-schools; to determine the extent to which pre-school teachers use mathematics games and activities in teaching mathematics; to find out how teacher/pupil ratio influence the use of games in teaching mathematics; and to establish the extent to which learning facilities influence use of games in teaching of mathematical concepts in preschools.
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    Play as a Medium of Instruction
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018) Manyara, Chrisanto Omwenga; Murungi, Catherine Gakii
    This Book establishes the influence of pre-school teachers’ level of motivation on use of play as a medium of instruction in pre-school children’s learning. It explores the level of motivation that can make teachers to use play as a medium of instruction and participate in children’s play activities. Play is essential for the development of children because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children. It offers an ideal opportunity for teachers to engage fully with their children. Despite the benefits derived from play for both children and teachers, time for free play has been markedly reduced for some children. This book culminates from research work done in Kenya
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    Class Learning Environment on Grade 1-3 Performance in Social studies
    (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018) Makau, Mathias Wambua; Murungi, Catherine Gakii; Begi, Seth
    Social studies plays a vital role of equipping pupils with knowledge and skills to help them cope with the present and future. This allows pupils to participate effectively in their world and explain their relationship with the other people in social, economic and political issues. However, despite the role social studies play in society, in Kenya many classrooms learning environment in primary schools is not conducive and pupils’ performance in social studies has been poor. Therefore, this explores classroom learning environment on lower primary school pupils’ performance in social studies in lower primary schools in Kibwezi zone in Makueni County, Kenya. This book culminates from research work that was guided by four objectives which aimed at determining the availability and use of teaching learning materials on pupils’ performance in social studies, finding out the influence of teacher - pupil ratio on pupils’ performance in social studies, finding out the availability and use of physical facilities on pupils’ performance in social studies and determining the strategies used by teachers to improve pupils’ performance in social studies in lower primary schools in Kibwezi.
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    Community Policing and Crime Control in Machakos County, Kenya
    (Stratford Peer Reviewed Journals and Book Publishing, 2021-04) Mutegi, Rita Makena; Muna, Wilson
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    Security Reporting Systemand Performance among Police Officers in Lamu County, Kenya
    (Stratford Peer Reviewed Journals and Book Publishing, 2021-04) Thuranira, Mark Linturi; Muna, Wilson
    neffectiveness in police performance has been a major problem among many policing organizations the world over. Inadequacies in the organizational structure can damage workers and their efficiency, which in turn affects the performance of the organization. This research determinedthe effect of security reporting systemon performance of police officersin Kenya. Thedescriptive research design was adopted. Qualitative and quantitative techniques of data analysis were used. The findings indicated thatcoefficient of security reporting systemhad a positive and significant relationship with performance of police officers(r=.572, P=.000). This denoted that performance of police officers increases as the reporting system improves.The study concluded that reporting procedures are complicated, information received is not sufficient for decision making and there is no access to real-time information.It was recommended that the National Police Service should put up measures to streamlinethe reporting system and free it from complications.Also, modern equipment and technology to enhance
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