Browsing RP-Department of Early Childhood Studies by Issue Date
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Household and preschooler vitamin A consumption in southwestern Kenya
(Pubmed, 1993-05)This study examined the effects of an income-generating policy to expand the commerciali zation of subsistence agriculture in southwestern Kenya on household and preschooler macro- and micronutrient consumption. A ... -
Early Childhood Music Education in Kenya: Between Broad National Policies and Local Realities
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)The historical development of early childhood music education (ECE) in Kenya reveals the challenging circumstances under which it has, and continues, to progress. Poverty remains the most formidable hindrance to ... -
Turkana Children's Rights to Education and Indigenous Knowledge in Science Teaching in Kenya.
(Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011)Using a qualitative ethnographic study of early childhood centres and lower primary schools operating in rural areas in a nomadic Turkana community of Kenya, this paper considers the failure of universal education to ... -
Challenges faced by teacher students of Kenyatta University in accessing further education through e-Learning
(Global Education, Science, Technology and Public Policy Initiatives for Sustainable Development in Africa, 2011)One of the innovations that Kenyatta University (KU) adopted is the Open, Distant and e- Learning (ODeL) which involves students learning at a distance, using printed modules and interacting with lecturers through e-Learning. ... -
Children Health Needs and It’s Influence on Pre-School Education Enrolments
(International Researchers, 2012)Available literature shows that in Kenya enrolment of children in pre-school education is low. It is believed that failure to adequately meet children’s health needs might be leading to the children’s low enrolment in ... -
Early Identification of Learning Disabilities among Standard Three Pupils of Public Primary Schools in Butere District, Kenya
(Scholarlink Resource Centre, 2012)Learning Disability is a condition in which children who though appear ‘normal’ are unable to perform commensurate with their age and ability levels due to a basic psychological problem. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Training of Science Teachers for Early Childhood and Primary Grades in Kenya
(New Zeal and Journal of Teachers’ Work, 2012)This paper analyses teacher training in science education in e arly childhood development and pr imary grades in Kenya. The paper argues that even though the Kenya Government empha sis es science as a subject ... -
Underweight Children and their Enrolment in Pre-School Education in Kenya
(International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences, 2012)This study sought to determine the nutrition status of children in terms of underweight and its relationship to children’s enrolment in pre-school education. Probability sampling was used to get the sample size. The ... -
An Investigation of the Extent to Which Children's Housing Needs Are Met Among Pre-School Age Going Children and Pre-School Education in Meru County Kenya
(International Journal of Professional Practice, 2012)It was believed that failure to adequately meet housing need might have contributed to the children's low participation in pre-school education and other levels of education in Miriga Mieru West Division of Imenti North ... -
Number of Meals Consumed by the Pre-School Age Going Children and Its Relationship to the Status of Pre-School Attendance in Kenya
(2012)This survey research studied the number of meals that children consume in a day and their school attendance. The study is a correlation study employing a survey method with a sample of 390 children whose parents participated ... -
Wasting in Children and Participation in the Pre-school Education in the Urban / Rural Kenyan set up
(Journal of Education and Practice, 2012)This study sought to determine the relationship between wasting and children’s participation in pre-school education.The sample size for this study was 390 children. The findings indicate that statistically there is a ... -
Early Childhood Education for the Pre-School Age Going Children: The Issue of Low Enrolments in Kenya
(Journal of Education and Practise, 2012)There is a continuous trend of low enrolments of children in Early Childhood Education Centers in Kenya. Failure to adequately meet pre-school children’s basic needs such as food, water and health care has resulted to low ... -
The Language of Sex and HIV/AIDS among University Students in Kenya
(2012-10-05)This paper unravels the lexicon and expressions about sex and HIV/AIDS used by university students in Kenya. It argues that in order to effectively run anti‐HIV/AIDS campaigns, there is need to use the lexicon and expressions ... -
Early Childhood Care and Education in Kenya
(2012-10-05)Recent years have seen a global endeavor to prioritize early childhood care and education as a foundation for later learning and development, as evidenced by the Global Guidelines for Early Childhood Education and Care ... -
What can Schools Learn from Children about Use of Culturally Relevant Methods and Materials?
(Scholarlink R esearch Institute Journals, 2013)The methods and materials used by teachers in schools has been examined by various researchers. Howe ver, sibling teaching and the mater ials and methods used during sibling teaching is an area that has not received much ... -
Parents’ Child Preference for Education in Imenti North County, Kenya
(2013-02)This paper explores the parents’ child preference for education of pre-school age going children in Miriga Mieru West Division of Imenti North County, Kenya. To establish this parent’s demographic information on marital ... -
Reasons for Low Enrolments in Early Childhood Education in Kenya: the Parental Perspective
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-05)There is a continuous documented trend of low enrolments of children in the Early Childhood Education Centers in Kenya and these low enrolments continue to increase with the years. This study establishes the reasons ... -
African Early Childhood Development Curriculum and Pedagogy for Turkana nomadic pastoralist communities of Kenya.
(Wiley Online Library, 2014)Western conceptions of child development and the models of early education they engender predominantly shape services for young children in the first eight years of life all over Africa. This chapter brings a reconceptualist ... -
Critical Factors in the Integration of Information and Communication Technologies in Early Childhood Education in Kenya: A Case of Nairobi County
(DBpia, 2014)In Kenya during the last one decade, public and private sectors have invested a lot of resources in computer based Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve the quality of education in schools. The main ...
