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Predictors of Achievement Motivation Among Kenyan Adolescents
(Thiruvananthapuram, 2009)
The present study was carried out to investigate
the impact of classroom climate, intelligence, home
environment and socio-economic status on achievement
motivation of standard eight pupils of Nairobi city,
Kenya. A ...
Enhancing the Full Potential of Persons with Disabilities through Sports in the 21st Century with Reference to Kenya
(Disability Studies Quarterly, 2009-09)
As early as 460 BC, Hippocrates, the famous Greek Physician and Father of Medicine acknowledged the importance of exercise for strengthening the body, enhancing recovery from diseases, and for prevention and care of mental ...
Teachers', methods and materials: exploring opportunities and challenges in learning to read in primary schools in two Kenyan contexts
(Nairobi Academic press, 2008)
Over recent decades, various studies have decried the rising numbers of non-readers in
Kenyanclassrooms, within the context of a growing global phenomenon. This study aimed at
ascertainingteachers' capacity to teach ...
Disability and identity
(Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009)
The concept of "identity" has become both a contested and a fertile field of research and theory in recent years (Watson, 2002). Several assumptions have come into focus: that identity can be structured upon shared social ...
Educating Children with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disabilities in Kenya: A Right or a Privilege?
(2007)
In spite of the United Nation's inclusion of education as a right for all in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, many Kenyan children with emotional and behavioral disorders continue to be denied educational ...
Development of a Guidance Programme for Students with Special Educational Needs in Kenya: A Study on Personal Orientation
(Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
In this article, Franciscah Wamocho, lecturer and chairperson, Geoffrey Karugu, senior lecturer, both in the Department of Special Education, and Augustine Nwoye, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, all ...
The Concept of Inclusive Education: Teacher Training and Acquisition of English Language in the Hearing Impaired
(Wiley, 2004-03)
Three languages are widely used in schools in Kenya – English, Kiswahili and Kenya Sign Language. Many pupils with hearing impairments are taught separately from the mainstream, in specialist settings. The fact that most ...