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The Principals’ and Teacher Counsellors’ Perception of the Factors Influencing Effective Delivery of Guidance and Conselling Services in Public Secondary Schools in Laikipia District
(International Association of African Researchers, 2011)Despite the institutionalization of guidance and counselling programme in Kenyan public secondary schools, cases of indiscipline are still rampant. This study investigated the factors that influence the delivery of ... -
An investigation to the efficacy of free primary education in withdrawing and maintaining children from child labour in Kiambu district, Kenya
(2011)It is estimated that about 250 million children aged between 5-14 years were working world wide by the year 2006, at least 120 million were working full time and close to 80 million in hazardous work. These are children ... -
Peace Education for Sustainable Peace and Development: A Case of Kenya
(Journal of Research in Peace, Gender and Development, 2012)A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems; have the skills to resolve conflicts constructively, know and live by international standards of human rights, gender and racial ... -
Teaching of the integrated topics on drug abuse as a strategy to eradicate drug abuse among secondary school students in Machakos District, Kenya
(2012)The problem of drug abuse has been an area of concern in Kenya for the last two decades. The previous studies carried out in this area revealed that drug abuse has been on the increase at the secondary school level in ... -
The dilemma of career choice: a case study of Kenyan secondary school students
(Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)The purpose of this study was to investigate the variables that influence career choice among secondary school students in Kenya. The study was guided by two objectives: to determine the influence of peer groups on ... -
An Empirical Investigation of Viability of Alternative Approaches to Basic Education among the Samburu Nomadic Pastoralists Of Northern Kenya
(Journal of Education and Practice, 2012)Alternative Approaches to Basic Education (AABE) were introduced in Kenya to promote access to basic education and to enhance Universal Primary Education (UPE.) However, in Samburu County, the levels of school enrolment ... -
Effectiveness of Coping Training Programme in Enhancing Psychosocial Adjustment for Persons Living with HIV/AIDs in Nakuru North District, Kenya
(2012-02-02)This was an experimental study which assessed the effectiveness of a coping training programme in enhancing psychosocial adjustment among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Nakuru North Distrct, Kenya. A sample of 60 ... -
Perceptions of academic staff on research and publishing in Kenyan universities
(International Journal of Education Administration and Policy Studies, 2012-03)Academic research represents the backbone of human activity in improving the quality of life through expanding frontiers of academic knowledge, and making further research possible throughout the world. Academic research ... -
Academic Advising Needs among University Students in Kenya
(Asian Economic and Social Society, 2012-07-01)It is not easy for the overburdened student counselors in universities to adequately address students’ needs in all areas. Hence, the establishment of academic advising Western countries and recently in some Kenyan ... -
Critical analysis of the effectiveness of programmes and activities developed to improve educational access, quality and equity in Kenya
(2012-09)The declarations of the 1990 Jomtien World Conference on Education and the 2000 Dakar World Education Forum both emphasized that to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015 , in addition to increased access to education, ... -
Motivational Factors for Substance Abuse Among Secondary School and University Students in Kenya: The Way Forward
(Asian Economic and Social Society, 2013)Substance abuse is becoming an increasing problem in Kenya. A number of studies carried out in the country show that almost every Kenyan youngster at one time or another experiments with substances, especially beer and ... -
The Impact of Year of Study, Gender and Academic Performance on Students’ Perception on Academic Advising in Kenyan Universities
(2013)A sample of 187 university students (53, 41 and 93 first, second and third year respectively) participated in this study. No significant relationship (r = 0.138) was found between the rate at which students seek academic ... -
Emerging Need for Academic Advising in Schools, Colleges and Universities in Kenya
(AESS Publications., 2013)It is not easy for the overburdened student counselors in schools, colleges and universities to adequately address students’ needs in all areas. This has led to the establishment of academic advising in Western countries ... -
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
(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 ... -
A Call to Reform Secondary Schools in Kenya
(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 ... -
Kenya’s Political Regime in Need of a Humanizing Pedagogy: what to Learn from Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(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— ... -
Conceptualizing Public Service Equity and Equality in Kenya: Towards Zero Unemployment
(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 ... -
The Tyranny of Numbers and Ethnic political patronage in Kenya: Lessons from the United States of America’s Electoral College Vote Process
(International Journal of Social Sciences, 2013)Ethnic diversity, though an obvious sign of Africa’s cultural richness and social capital, is equally a source of tension between communities and nations and is considered as a potential source of conflicts and a handicap ... -
Can Education System be Repaired? Ideological Dearth in Kenya’s Educational Practice and its Implications for Reforms in the Education Sector
(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 impact of drug abuse awareness campaigns in Kenya
(2013)The study sought to find out the concept the youth, lecturers and parents had on drug abuse, their awareness of the type of the commonly abused drugs on the Kenyan market, the associated dangers and why drug abuse was on ...