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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 ...
Understanding the Morality of Teaching Profession With Reference To Immanuel Kant's Conceptualization of Good Will versus Duty
(Journal of Education and Human Development, 2013-06)
This paper seeks an articulation of the morality of actions and attitudes relating to the teaching profession. Its essence is a contribution to the understanding of motivations and principles guiding the choice of teaching ...
The Challenges of Anti-Corruption Initiatives: Reflections on Strategies of the Defunct Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission
(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 ...
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 ...
The Role of Anti-Corruption Education in the Light of Aristotelian Concept of Akrasia: An Epistemic Inquiry into the Anti-corruption Initiatives in Kenya
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013-03)
This paper undertakes an epistemic investigation of the efforts to combat corruption in Kenya in the light of Aristotle’s concept of Akrasia, and proposes a model for educational practice for the purpose of facilitating ...
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 ...
Understanding as a Concept in Education: Conceptions and Alternative Interpretations
(MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy, 2014-01)
Education has largely been conceptualized as transmission and acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values so as to
facilitate desirable behavior. This conceptualization presupposes knowledge, skills, attitudes ...