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Academic Staff Attitude towards Open Access Outlets in Disseminating Research Findings in Selected Universities in Kenya
(International Researchers, 2017)This study sought to establish the attitude of academic staff towards Open Access (OA) outlets. A descriptive research design was chosen for the study to describe the attitude of academics with regard to the outlets. The ... -
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 ... -
An Assessment of Play as a Strategy on Preschoolers’ Classroom Participation in Public Pre-Primary Schools in Bunyala- Busia County, Kenya
(The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 2021-04)Learner’s classroom participation can be gauged by; confidence levels turn taking, numeracy skills, manipulative competencies and task completion. However, over time, adequate inculcation of play as a strategy in early ... -
Availability of Physical Infrastructure in Implementation of the Competence-Based Curriculum in Public Primary Schools in Kericho County
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2021)A competency-based curriculum is a curriculum that allows students to develop prescribed competencies. In Kenya, the Competence-Based Curriculum implementation of 2-6-6-3 was adopted in January 2017. This ... -
Braille Literacy Levels among Learners with Visual Impairment in Special Schools in Kenya
(Open Access Publishing Group, 2021)Effective education ensures that students are able to fully participate and benefit from it, regardless of whether they have impairments or not. Good vision is important for students at all stages of learning as it helps ... -
Caregivers’ role definition and practices in the stimulation of children’s emergent reading development in Ruiru, Kenya
(2015-02-09)Emergent reading refers to the reading related developments that occur before formal reading instruction. Although research on this concept exists in other countries, It is a relatively new concept in Kenya and for ... -
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. ... -
Child Abuse Influence on Lower Primary School Pupil’s Academic Achievement in a Rural Setting in Kenya
(International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science, 2017-06)Child abuse is an act of inflicting serious, physical injury and emotional torture on a child or person, which is intentional or unintentional and could endanger the physical, health, emotional, social, moral and educational ... -
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 ... -
Children’s Safety and Security in Non Formal Pre-Primary Schools: The Intervention Measures
(Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)(ERIC), 2021)This study sought to come up with intervention measures that could be put in place to mitigate the challenges experienced in non-formal schools to enhance safety and security of children. Purposive sampling was used to ... -
Choice of the Medium of Instruction in Kenyan Preschools: Averting Xenocentrism
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2017)This qualitative study sought to prompt a critical and reflective discourse on the dismal use of mother tongue in Kenyan early childhood education (ECE) institutions in an attempt to detect existence of xenocentrism. ... -
Class size and the Acquisition of reading skills among Grade III pupils in Kenyenya Sub- County, Kenya
(International Researchers, 2017-09)Reading skills forms the basis upon which all other learning and academic skills are based. Early acquisition of reading skills among pupils forms the foundation upon which language and literacy learning is built. ... -
Correlation between Class Size and Pupils’ Acquisition of Early Mathematics Competencies: A Case of Kericho County, Kenya
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2020)Mathematics is one of the core subjects in the Basic Education Curriculum in Kenya. It means that all pupils are required to have a strong grounding in the subject which depends on the level of their early mathematics ... -
Covid-19 and Home learning: The case of Meru County Kenya
(International Journal of Research in Social Science and Humanities (IJRSS), 2020)The main purpose of the study was to find out whether children are learning now that schools closed due to covid, and does involving children, in child work/child employment and or child labour deny them a chance to engage ... -
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 ... -
Decision Making in Shifts to Online Teaching, Analysing Reflective Narratives from Staff Working in African Higher Educational Institutions
(MDPI, 2023)Many higher education institutions moved from in-person to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, but these shifts have a longer history and potential. They require challenging individual and collective decision ... -
Determinants of Administration of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Kilifi South Sub County, Kenya
(International Academic Journals, 2020)Across the world, education has been, is and will be viewed as the world’s largest investment. In the developed countries like USA and Canada education is given the largest share of the governmental budget. Greatly ... -
Determinants of Teachers’ Use of Instructional Resource in Teaching Pre-Primary School Science and Mathematics Activities In Machakos County, Kenya
(IJCAB Publishing Group, 2019)The continuous poor results of science and mathematics in Athi-River Sub-County of Machakos County-Kenya has yielded to the study of determinants of pre-primary school teachers’ use of instructional resources in teaching ... -
Do Learning Facilities in a Pre-School set up Influence use of Games in Teaching Mathematical Concepts
(International Researchers, 2018)Availability of learning materials, tools and equipments is key in the game based learning of mathematical concepts. The purpose of this study was to establish the extent to which learning facilities influence use of games ...
