School of Education: Recent submissions
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Analysis of Factors that lead to poor Performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations in Embu District, Kenya
(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 ... -
Analysis of Factors Influencing Choice of Institution for Professional Development: A Case Study of Post- Graduate Students’ Perceptions at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Kenya
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013-07)Universities have play key roles in development human resources necessary for the growth of the institutions of the society, be it economic, political or social. To this regard university education has been regarded as the ... -
Teacher’s Productivity in Promoting Quality Education in Public Primary Schools in Kenya
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013-07)Researchers and policy makers agree that teacher quality is a pivotal issue in education. Quality education begins with quality teachers. Excellent teachers do more than teach the curriculum content: they inspire and ... -
Constraints Facing Teachers of Christian Religious Education in Using Life Approach in Secondary Schools in Nairobi East District in Kenya
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013-07)The strategy used in teaching and learning has a bearing on effectiveness and quality of education offered. The integrated Christian Religious Education (CRE) lays emphasis on what is known as the life Approach strategy ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Leveraging Science, Technology and Innovation for National Development in the Light of the Emerging Universities of Science and Technology in Kenya
(2013-05)It is recognized that effective leveraging of science, technology and innovation is essential for wealth creation in all nations. Science, Technology and Innovation is also a key component of social integration, sustainable ... -
Teachers’ Labeling of students and its effect on Students’ Self– concept: A Case of Mwala District, Machakos County, Kenya
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-10)There is a need to help secondary school students to attain higher academic achievements in the national examinations. This is because good performance in these examinations acts as a channel through which students proceed ... -
Relationship Between Post Election Violence Traumatic Events and the Level of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Primary school Pupils in Kibera and Kayole Settlements, Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-10)This study seeks to determine whether pupils who experienced post election violence which occurred after 2007/2008 disputed elections would have higher levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder than those who did not. The ... -
Determinants of girls’ performance in science, mathematics and technology subjects in public secondary schools in Kenya
(International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2013-07)There has been incessant low academic performance in Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) subjects especially among girls at form four level in Kitui Central District over the years. The aim of this study was to ... -
Emerging Need for Academic Advising in Schools, Colleges and Universities in Kenya.
(International Journal of Asian Social Science, 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 ... -
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 ... -
The 21 st Century Educated African Person and the Loss of Africans’ Educational Identity: Towards an Afro Education Mode
(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 Vanishing Essence of Universities of Science and Technology in Kenya: The Role of a University in Changing the World
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2013)The view that we live in a changing world is undisputable. This way, two aspects emerge, that of elements that change the world, and that of elements that change in the world. Universities like other entities in the world ... -
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 ... -
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— ... -
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 21 st Century Educated Mount Kenya University Graduate and its Implications for the Practice of Higher Education
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
