Schooling and Child Labour among Children with Disabilities in Samburu County, Kenya.
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Date
2014-10-30
Authors
Ringera, Japheth Mwebia
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
This study seeks to analyze the schooling and working paths for children with
disabilities. It is widely acknowledged that child labour is detrimental to children's
school attendance, participation and completion which are also a precursor to child
labour. Child labour among children with disabilities can result from a faulty
education system and negative attitude where children drop out of school or are not
enrolled at all. The specific objectives of the study will be: to establish the typology
of work performed by children with disabilities as child labourers, determine how the
type of disability influences children into child labour, compare the completion rates
of children with disabilities enrolled from child labour with those without disabilities, .
identify school factors that influence children with disability into child labour in
Samburu county and investigate preventive processes within the school system that
enhance retention of children with disabilities. The study will be carried out in
Samburu County and adopt The Social Model Theory. The Theory argues that
persons with disabilities are excluded from society participation and school processes
by unnecessary societal barriers, cultural discrimination, inadequate learning
facilities and stigmatization. This contributes to children's involvement in child
labour. The sample size will constitute 6 Focus Discussion Groups of children with
disabilities who may have worked as child labourers and enrolled in integrated
schools in Samburu County. Key informants will be utilized to supplement the data.
These will be pupils with disabilities who may not have worked as child labourers,
10 teachers from integrated programmes and 3 personnel officers working in the
Assessment and Resource Centre's. The study will use both qualitative and
quantitative designs. Analysis of data from questionnaires will generate descriptive
statistics which will be presented in tables, charts and figures. Qualitative data will be
analyzed using thematic approach.