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Justifications and Impacts of Low-Fee Private Schools in Kenya and Uganda: Understanding Policy Evolutionary Mechanisms through Public Discourse of Bridge International Academies

Monk, Jeremy (Columbia University, 2019)

Low-fee private schools (LFPS) have grown considerably in the developing world as public free primary education has been unable to cater to the poorest children. Bridge International Academies (BIA), one of the largest ...

Kenya Preschool Curriculum on Environmental Conservation by Young Children

Gatumu, Jane C.; Origa, Japheth; Miringu, Eunice (Southeast Asia Early Childhood Journal, 2012)

The study was done out of concern about global environmental degradation as a result of unsustainable use of available natural resources. It was based on the belief that environmental education (EE) enlightens an individual ...

Kenya Primary School Teachers’ Preparation in ICT Teaching: Teacher Beliefs, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, Computer Competence, and Age

Wambiri, Gladwell; Ndani, Mary N. (African Journal of Teacher Education, 2016)

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become globally recognized as an effective medium for learning. The Kenyan government made a commitment to provide computers for use in teaching in primary schools. This ...

Kenya Quaker Secondary School Peace Curriculum Pilot Project: Examining the Role of the Principal in the Successes and Challenges of the Implementation

Hockett, Eloise (Routledge, Taylor and Francis group, 2015-08-15)

This qualitative study examined the implementation of a peace curriculum for Kenyan Quaker secondary schools. Fourteen schools were selected for this study 1 year after school leaders attended specific training sessions. ...

Kenya's Constituency Development Fund, Free Secondary Education Policy, and Access to Secondary Education

Nzuki, Charles Kyalo (Walden University, 2017)

The effects of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and the Free Secondary Education Policy (FSEP) on access to secondary school education in Kenya’s Yatta subcounty have not been adequately explored in available public ...

Kenya's HIV/AIDS Education Sector Policy : Implications for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children and the Teaching of HIV/AIDS Education

Ruto, Sara Jerop; Chege, Fatuma N.; Wawire, Violet K. (International Cooperation in Education, 2009)

This paper results from a study conducted in 2005-2006 on the 2004 HIV/AIDS Education Sector Policy. It investigates the practical implications of the policy document in addressing provisions related to orphaned and ...

A Kenyan Cloud School. Massive Open Online & Ongoing Courses for Blended and Lifelong Learning

Jobe, William (International Council for Open and Distance Education - ICDE, 2013)

This research describes the predicted outcomes of a Kenyan Cloud School (KCS), which is a MOOC that contains all courses taught at the secondary school level in Kenya. This MOOC will consist of online, ongoing subjects ...

Kenyan Curriculum Reforms and Mother Tongue Education: Issues, Challenges and Implementation Strategies

Mandillah, Lucy (University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press, 2019)

The implementation of mother tongue education (MTE) remains a challenge across Africa and Kenya in particular. This continues despite the fact that the maintenance and development of language and literacy skills in one’s ...

The Kenyan Education Curriculum: From Development to Sustainability

Koteng, Grace A. (DAVID PUBLISHING, 2016-04)

Education for sustainable development (ESD) translates to acquisition of knowledge and skills to support growth. Sustainability adds value to the acquired learning in education; and this, then translates to the growth and ...

Kenyan Indigenous Languages in Education: A World of Potential Benefits

Ondari, Hellen Kwamboka; Michieka, Martha Moraa (Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2014)

Both African and international second language studies show that children who go through strong bilingual models which involve late exit from mother-tongue (L1) to a second language (L2) perform better linguistically and ...

Kenyan Students’ Perceptions of New Technologies to Improve Access to Education

Ang’ondi, Enos Kiforo (Springer Nature, 2013)

The aim of this paper is to present the findings of a qualitative study carried out on perceptions of high school students on the use of ICT in learning in a secondary school in Mombasa, Kenya. The study involved 18 students ...

Kenya’s ICT Policy in Practice: The Effectiveness of Tablets and E-readers in Improving Student Outcomes

Piper, Benjamin; Jepkemei, Evelyn; Kwayumba, Dunston; Kibukho, Kennedy (FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2015)

Kenya is investing in information and communication technology (ICT) to improve children’s learning outcomes. However, the literature on ICT is pessimistic about the ability of ICT alone to improve outcomes, and few ICT ...

Kicking the Habitus: Power, Culture and Pedagogy in the Secondary School Music Curriculum

Wright, Ruth (Routledge, Taylor and Francis group, 2008)

Within a theoretical framework drawn from sociologists of education Bourdieu and Bernstein, this paper will examine some of the findings of an ethnographic case study conducted with a secondary school music teacher and one ...

‘Kids on the Tab’: Kenya National Library Service’s Tablet Computers Project for Slum School Children

Kinyanjui, Mary (IFLA, 2014)

In Kenya, as elsewhere, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become essential tools in all aspects of life. The education system has a major role to play in providing the ICT knowledge and skills citizens ...

Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions of School Principals: Perspectives from Kisumu County, Kenya

Oyugi, Perez (American Institute of Science, 2015)

This paper is a part of a larger international comparative study entitled "Institutional Dimensions of Professional Knowledge: Processes and Implication for School Leaders across Educational Contexts”. This study explored ...

Language Factors in the Transition from Pre-School to Lower Primary School in Nyeri South District, Nyeri County Kenya

Gichohi, Mary Watetu (IJHSSI, 2017-08-31)

The transition of children from pre-school to primary school is not a single event of change with not just immediate but also, far reaching consequences. Language factors and specifically the language of instruction is a ...

Language Games and Language Teaching in Kenya: The Case of Kiswahili in Lower School

Iribemwangi, P. I.; Mutua, B. F. (Journal of Education and Practice, 2014)

Many experienced textbook and methodology manuals writers have argued that games are not just time-filling activities but have a great educational value. W. R. Lee holds that most language games make learners use the ...

Language in Education and the Role of Applied Linguistics in Kenya

Michieka, Martha Moraa (Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2011)

Language in education has remained a major concern in most African countries, especially those that were formerly colonized by European countries. Several problems that Africa and Kenya in particular, faces are closely ...

Language of Instruction in Kenya: Focus on Lower Primary in Schools in Rural Areas

Oluoch, Elizabeth Asewe (European Centre for Research Training and Development UK, 2017)

The use of mother tongue as a language of instruction debate has been ongoing in Kenya as well as in other African countries with no consensus from researchers and policy makers. This paper focuses on the use of mother ...

Language Policy in Kenya and the New Constitution for Vision 2030

Kibui, Agnes w. (Trans Stellar Journal Publications Research Consultancy, 2014-10)

This article discusses the language situation in Kenya, beginning with an insightful history on language policies from the period when the country was still under British colonial rule. In post colonial Kenya, the newly ...

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