Browsing by Author "Amukowa, Wycliffe"
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The 21 st Century Educated African Person and the Loss of Africans’ Educational Identity: Towards an Afro Education Mode
Amukowa, Wycliffe; Ayuya, Caroline (MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013)Africa like other parts of the world strongly believes in the axiom of education per excellence, that is, African nations share in the vision of education as a pivot for social change and integrated development. However ... -
The 21 st Century Educated Mount Kenya University Graduate and its Implications for the Practice of Higher Education
Amukowa, Wycliffe (International Journal of Social Science & Education, 2013)The objective of this paper is to serve as the seed around which further thought on the role of the university education grows. By seeking an understanding of the 21st Century Educated Mount Kenya University graduate, the ... -
Against Narration Sickness in Higher Education: Implications of Paulo Freire’s Banking Concept of Education on Achievement of University Education Objectives in Kenya in the light of the U Universities Act 2012
Amukowa, Wycliffe (2013)This paper discusses how a pedagogy void of narration sickness would be conducive for the achievement of objectives of education. According to Paulo Freire (2005), a careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at ... -
Analysis of Factors that lead to poor Performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations in Embu District, Kenya
Karue, Njagi; Amukowa, Wycliffe (2013-07-30)This study was conceived on realization that day secondary schools performed below par in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education in Embu District. It set to find out factors affecting performance in Kenya Certificate of ... -
APPROPRIATENESS OF MNEMONIC TECHNIQUES ON FREE RECALL LEARNING OUTCOMES IN PUBLIC UPPER PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MACHAKOS SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
Makau, Patricia Mwikali; Muola, James Matee; Amukowa, Wycliffe (Open Access Publishing Group, 2019)The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of mnemonic techniques on free recall learning outcomes in primary schools in Machakos SubCounty, Machakos County, Kenya. A 2x4 factorial design was used to ... -
Appropriateness of Mnemonic Techniques on Mathematics and Social Studies Learning Outcomes in Public Primary School in Machakos Sub-County, Kenya
Makau, Patricia Mwikali; Muola, James Matee; Amukowa, Wycliffe (Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com), 2019)The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of Mnemonic techniques on mathematics and social studies learning outcomes in primary schools in Machakos subcounty, Kenya. A 4x2 Factorial research design ... -
Appropriateness of Mnemonic Techniques on Serial Learning Outcomes in Primary Schools in Machakos Sub-County, Kenya
Makau, Patricia Mwikali; Muola, James Matee; Amukowa, Wycliffe (IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 2019)The objective of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of Mnemonic techniques on serial learning outcomes in upper primary schools in Machakos sub-county, Kenya.To achieve this, factorial experimental research ... -
A Call to Reform Secondary Schools in Kenya
Amukowa, Wycliffe (American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 2013)This paper is a thesis to the effect that secondary schools in Kenya frustrate learners thereby undermining the achievement of Kenya’s goals of education. In particular the paper discusses how secondary schools in Kenya ... -
Can Education System be Repaired? Ideological Dearth in Kenya’s Educational Practice and its Implications for Reforms in the Education Sector
Amukowa, Wycliffe; Gunga, Samson; Ayuya, Caroline (Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2013)This paper confronts two issues; reforms (repairs) and ideology in education. Machines can be repaired any time they breakdown or develop defects. Educational reforms have been carried out any time an emerging need has to ... -
The Challenges of Anti-Corruption Initiatives: Reflections on Strategies of the Defunct Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission
Amukowa, Wycliffe (MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013-07)This paper is founded on the growing need to eradicate corruption in the society. The causes and effects of corruption, and how to combat it, are issues that are on the increase on national, regional and international ... -
Conceptualizing Public Service Equity and Equality in Kenya: Towards Zero Unemployment
Amukowa, Wycliffe (International J. Soc. Sci. & Education, 2013)The issue of unemployment, defined in this paper as lack of jobs, lingers many minds in Kenya. It is alleged that unemployment is the root cause of poverty, crimes, illiteracy, poor health care among others unfavourable ... -
A critique of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission’s initiatives in combating corruption and its implications for education in the light of Aristotelian concept of akrasia
Amukowa, Wycliffe (2010)The causes and effects of corruption, and how to combat it, are issues that are attracting national and international agenda. On the international scene, the formation of the UN Convention ... -
A Dialectical Justification of Inclusion of Ignorance in the Definition of Education
Amukowa, Wycliffe (2014)This paper entertains the notion that without their opposites, things, and by extension, human thought would not exist. Without its opposite aspect, each thing or thought loses the condition for its existence. Without life, ... -
ENTRENCHING REALIST EVALUATION IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS IN THE AWAKE OF MIXED METHODOLOGY
Amukowa, Wycliffe (British International Journal of Education And Social Sciences, 2021-10)The choice of either Quantitative or Qualitative research methods or a mixture of both (Mixed Methods) presents a researcher’s construction of the reality he or she purposes to investigate. The central element in mixed ... -
HOW PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN ACTIVITIES AT SCHOOL INFLUENCES CHILDREN’S LEARNING OUTCOMES IN MBOONI EAST SUB COUNTY, MAKUENI COUNTY, KENYA
Mwania, Judith M.; Amukowa, Wycliffe; Koech, Peter Kibet (2019)The study sought to underscore the influence of parental involvement in activities at school on learning outcomes among preschool learners. Its purpose was to determine the influence parental involvement in activities at ... -
How Parental Involvement In Activities At School Influences Children’s Learning Outcomes In Mbooni East Sub County, Makueni County, Kenya
Mwania, Judith M.; Koech, Peter Kibet; Amukowa, Wycliffe (Open Access Publishing Group, 2019-09-19)The study sought to underscore the influence of parental involvement in activities at school on learning outcomes among preschool learners. Its purpose was to determine the influence parental involvement in activities at ... -
INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL HOME ACTIVITIES ON CHILDREN’S LEARNING OUTCOMES IN MBOONI EAST SUB-COUNTY, MAKUENI COUNTY, KENYA
Mwania, Judith M.; Amukowa, Wycliffe; Koech, Peter Kibet (IIASD Advance Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2022-05)This study sought to accentuate influence of parental home activities on learning outcomes amongst preschool learners in Mbooni Sub County, Makueni County, Kenya. Its purpose was to examine the parental home activities ... -
Influence of Parental Home Activities on Children’s Learning Outcomesin Mbooni East Sub-County, Makueni County, Kenya
Mwania, Judith M.; Amukowa, Wycliffe; Koech, Peter Kibet (2019-09)This study sought to accentuate influence of parental home activities on learning outcomes amongst preschool learnersin Mbooni Sub County, Makueni County, Kenya. Its purpose was to examine the parentalhome activities in ... -
Kenya’s Political Regime in Need of a Humanizing Pedagogy: what to Learn from Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Amukowa, Wycliffe; Atancha, Jeremiah (American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 2013)Fatalism in the guise of docility is the fruit of an historical and sociological situation, not an essential characteristic of a people's behavior. It almost always is related to the power of destiny or fate or fortune— ... -
PHILOSOPHICAL METHODS AS FULCRUM OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: A THEORETICAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS
Amukowa, Wycliffe (Center for International Research Development, 2021-10)As universities continue to be confronted with research productivity there seems to be a micro-political issue regarding the relationship between philosophers of education and educational researchers with educational ...