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Christian Religious Education in Kenya : An Assessment of the Evolution and Operation of the Western Missionary Ideology
(1982)This study analyses the problems of moral education within Christian religious education in Kenya. It focuses on the displacement of African traditional education by the Western missionary ideology. The latter's influence ... -
Trends in the teaching and learning of science
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Gender and the social and economic impact of drought on the residents of Turkana district in Kenya
(2003-02-19)The study seeks to assess the adaptive strategies employed by men and women within their respective social and economic backgrounds to cope with challenges in the drought-stricken Turkana District. The study utilizes ... -
New Frontiers of Exclusion Private Higher Education and Women’s Opportunities in Kenya
(CODESRIA, 2005)The semi-privatisation of public universities and the growth of private universitiehave been two important developments affecting higher education in Kenya in the last decade. The trend towards the privatisation of university ... -
Research Capacity on Ageing in Africa: Limitations and Ways Forward
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Teachers’ gendered identities, pedagogy and HIV/AIDS education in African settings within the ESAR
(Bioinfo Publications, 2006)This article uses data selected from two studies in countries of the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), namely, Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to explore how teachers used ... -
Institutional Transformations and Implications for Access and Quality in Public and Private Universities in Kenya: A Comparative Study
(2006)This paper discusses the implications of the rapid expansion and transformations in African universities on access and quality. Using the example of Kenya, it looks at both the transformations that have occurred in the ... -
Universalizing Primary Education in Kenya : Is It Beneficial and Sustainable?
(Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2008)Kenya has targeted universal primary education since its independence. In achieving such a goal the country introduced free primary education in 2003 and enrolments dramatically increased. However, in terms of quality, the ... -
The Role of Distance Teacher Education in Increasing the Supply of Primary School Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, 2011)This paper attempts to show that a sustainable supply of qualified teachers required to provide quality education for all children in Africa faces very serious challenges which have not been met by the conventional ... -
An Investigation of Community Participation in the Development of Schools and Income Generating Projects in Rural Areas in Kenya
(SCIENCEDOMAIN International, 2011)Background: There is a worldwide realization that development beneficiaries are important resources in the rural development process. Many countries in their development policies have stressed the need to encourage communities ... -
Role of Institutional Managers in Quality Assurance: Reflections on Kenya’s University Education.
(Australian Journal of Business and Management Research, 2011-05)Universities are accountable to the stakeholders. To justify their continued existence, the managers of these universities need to guarantee the public that the institutions they lead offer quality teaching, research ... -
Neo-liberalism and the Subversion of Academic Freedom from Within: Money, Corporate Cultures and ‘Captured’ Intellectuals in African Public Universities
(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2012)In the last two decades, neo-liberal thinking and practices, as outcomes of globalization, have shaped social, economic, and educational policies. Within higher education institutions, the application of neo-liberal ... -
The Catholic Church and Schools in Kenya: A Historical Perspec tive on Education for Holistic Development. Part I: From the Colonial period to Foundations of an Education dispensation for Independent Kenya
(2012)This is the first of a two part paper which attempts a critical analysis of the success of the mission of the Catholic Church to educate holistically in Kenya. The milieus discussed are the schools set up by Catholic ... -
Faculty Opinions on Emerging Corporatization in Public Universities in Kenya
(Herald International Research Journal s, 2012-08)In order to independently and sustainably implement their functions in response to reduced capitation from government, public university management is em bracing corporate culture, which has been traditionally associated ... -
Primary education experience of a Maasai woman in Kenya: the long-term impact of schooling beyond subject knowledge
(Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, 2013)The current discourse on EFA has a tendency of focusing on learning subject knowledge and completing primary school. Thus, dropping out of school has always been negatively regarded. This study examined the impact of ... -
University Expansion and the Challenges to Social Development in Kenya: Dilemmas and Pitfalls
(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2013)The phenomenal expansion of public and private universities in Kenya in recent years has opened access to thousands of knowledge-thirsty stu- dents to achieve their ambitions. Public universities in particular have ... -
Rights of Children in the Kenyan Primary School Curriculum
(Contemporary Research Center (CRC), 2013)Kenyans today are very conscious and assertive of their rights. In 2010, they ensured that basic human rights are enshrined in the new constitution that they passed. Despite all this it is relevant to question how knowledge ... -
Trends in Internationalization of Higher Education and Implications for Research and Innovation for Development in African Universities
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013-10-04)What are the current trends that mark out the process of internationalization of higher education? In what directions do these trends influence the direction of research and development in African universities? Does ... -
Partnership in secondary school assessment examinations and Kenya certificate of secondary education examinations: dilemma in evaluation
(2014)This paper presents the results of a research that investigated the difference in performance between partnerships in secondary school assessment examinations and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary examinations (KCSE) among ...
