Browsing RP-Department of Educational Management Policy & Curriculum Studies by Issue Date
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Self- Concepts and attitudes Towards Teaching as Predictors of Effective Teaching
(Journal of Instructional Psychology, 1987) -
Major Influences on Science Achievement in a Developing Country: Kenya
(International Journal of Science Education, 1989)This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of the relative importance of selected student, teacher and school characteristics on student achievement and attitudes towards science. The sample included 424 Form 4 ... -
Innovation in a Kenyan B.Ed. (Primary) Course
(Journal of Education for Teaching, 1989) -
Education for critical consciousness?: Curriculum and reality in African social studies education
(Elsevier, 1990)This paper uses the ideas of Paulo Freire to explore the role of social studies in African schools. In particular it examines the extent to which social studies can achieve a key aim of the African Social Studies Programme—the ... -
An essay on the implications of university expansion in Kenya
(Springer, 1990)Abstract. Although Kenya may be the most extreme example, expansion of university education is widespread throughout Eastern and Southern Africa. This article examines the irresistible rising tide of populism as it reaches ... -
Socialising multilingualism: Determinants of codeswitching in Kenyan primary classrooms
(Taylor & Francis, 1992)Individual multilingualism in a multilingual society is often associated with a mass education system. The Kenyan situation illustrates the intertwined complexity of the pedagogical and socialising aspects of language ... -
Diversifying the Secondary School Curriculum: The African Experience
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992-01-01)The paper discusses some African experiences in the diversification of secondary education, which is taken to mean curriculum change in a practical or vocational direction. This approach is intended to provide a wider set ... -
Multilingualism and discourse in primary school mathematics in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 1997)The paper very briefly reviews the literature on second language medium of instruction and educational achievement. Classroom discourse data from English, Kiswahili and mother tongue mathematics lessons, and from lessons ... -
Pedagogy in Teaching at the University. Journal
(Journal of Instructional Psychology, 1997) -
Effective Teaching as a factor of Teachers’ Attitude Towards Students.
(The journal for Basic Research in Psychological Sciences, 1998) -
The governance of Kenyan public universities
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)This study investigated issues in public university governance that contributed to the rapid expansion of university education and its impact on the quality of education as well as the effect of government involvement in ... -
Rethinking the place of African indigenous languages in African education
(Elsevier, 1999-07)Using Kenya as a case study, the paper demonstrates how indigenous African languages have suffered delegitimization and devaluation in education both in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Ethnographic data from Kenya are ... -
Access and Participation in Secondary Institute of School Education in Kenya
(Institute of Policy Analysis & Research( IPAR), 2003)On attainment of political independence in 1963, the Government of Kenya (GoK), households and the private sector collectively endeavoured to enhance the development of education in the country. The rapid development of ... -
Increasing Access and Participation of Pastoralist Communities in Primary Education in Kenya
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005)This study shows how the provision of educational facilities in Kenya since the colonial era has been skewed in favour of densely populated agricultural communities. It analyses interventions to redress the resultant ... -
Barriers to Participation in Adult Literacy Programs in Kenya.
(2005)To compete internationally, adapt to new technologies, and attain higher levels of efficiency and productivity, a country needs a highly literate populace. However, in Kenya, literacy stands at less than 65% of the population. ... -
Re-thinking the Financing of Kenya’s Higher Education: Options for Enhancing Equity, Access, and Quality
(The African Symposium, 2006)Financing Kenya’s higher education can hardly be said to encourage equity, access and quality. The situation is further aggravated by governme nt’s plummeting financial support for higher education and the absence of ... -
Institutional Transformations and Implications for Access and Quality in Public and Private Universities in Kenya: A Comparative Study
(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 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 ... -
A review of major obstacles to women’s participation in higher education in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-03)The paper provides a comprehensive review of the major obstacles that hinder the participation of girls and women in higher education in Kenya. This is on the basis that their low participation in this level of education ... -
The Challenge of Increasing Access and Improving Quality: An Analysis of Universal Primary Education Interventions in Kenya and Tanzania since the 1970s
(Springer, 2007)This article shows how interventions to provide Universal Primary Education (UPE) from the 1970s into the twenty-first century affected efforts to improve the quality of primary education in Kenya and Tanzania. While the ... -
The Effect of In-service Education and Training (INSET) Programmes in Mathematics and Science on Classroom Interaction: a Case Study of Primary and Secondary Schools in Kenya.
(Routledge, 2007)The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Strengthening of Mathematics and Science in Secondary Education (SMASSE) and the School-based Teacher Development (SbTD) programmes on classroom interaction ...
