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Communities defining their identities of poverty – “we are poor but we are notsopoor…”
(CICE SEMINAR SERIES – TOKYO, JAPAN, 2015)
This paper presents findings from the Kenya RECOUP project on Community Scoping and Household Census. It provides basic characteristics of wealth indicators of the research communities, households and constituent families ...
Youth citizenship, national unity and poverty allev iation: East and West African approaches to the education of a new generation
(Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2009)
Youth citizenship is now on the international agenda. This paper explores what that concept might mean in the context of two African nations: Kenya and Ghana. Post independence, both countries focused on rethinking the ...
Citizenship education and political engagement: voices of Kenyan youth from Nyeri and Nairobi
(2005-09)
Education plays a major role in equipping individuals with skills that enable them to participate fully as citizens in society. This paper interrogates this in the context of the nature of political engagement for schooled ...
Being young, Kenyan and gendered: the outcomes of schooling and transitions to adulthood in poor urban and rural settings
(2009-09)
This paper which is derived from findings of the Education, Youth, Gender and Citizenship
(YGC) project1 foregrounds the experiences and outcomes of schooling as constructed through
the voices of young female and male ...
Organizational Barriers Influencing Female Mobility in Secondary School Management in Machakos, Isiolo and Meru Counties, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015-05)
The issue of women under-representation in management positions in all sectors including education has aroused scholarly interest globally in recent times. Statistics from the Teachers Service Commission of Kenya (2010) ...
Preventing violence against women students everywhere
(2012-09)
This paper addresses issues of violence against women and girls with spec
ial reference to tertiary
institutions and drawing examples particularly from university colleges and campuses. In the
discussions,
various
forms ...
Researching Gender: Explorations into Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in African Contexts
(Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2007)
The author demonstrates that collaborating with children using a gender-sensitive life-cycle approach yields social and health dividends. The paper focuses upon young people and children engaged in HIV/AIDS education, not ...