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Author : Kathrine L. Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Socio-cultural Barriers to Kenyan Girls' Education written by Kathrine L. Webster and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate L. Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773421912
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Difficulties African Women Face in Accessing Education written by Kate L. Webster and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines socio-cultural and gender-based barriers Kenyan secondary school girls face. Currently, research has focused on increasing girls' enrollment rates to ameliorate the gender gap in African education. This research demonstrates that while it is important to have more girls attend school, girls today are disproportionately placed in inferior schools and confronted with gender-based attitudes that negatively impact their educational opportunities.
Author : Suzanne Stefania Livingstone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Numbers are Not Enough written by Suzanne Stefania Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievement of gender equality in education is an important development goal, endorsed primarily by the MDGs. Mainstream development literature promotes female education for its instrumental benefits and recommend policies designed to eliminate physical, economic, and cultural barriers that restrict girls' access to school. In contrast, feminist development literature emphasizes education's intrinsic value and its role in expanding girls' capabilities, and argues that girls continue to face barriers even in the classroom; feminist scholars therefore advocate for policies to improve girls' learning experience. In Kenya, policymakers have deliberately addressed physical and economic barriers to girls' access to education, with impressive results, but have neglected cultural barriers. Kenyan policy has also largely ignored the findings of the feminist literature, focusing exclusively on achieving parity in enrollments. This paper concludes that the goal of gender equality in education must be expanded to encompass the pursuit of qualitative equality.
Author : George S. Eshiwani
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Participation of Girls in Science and Technology Education in Kenya written by George S. Eshiwani and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation of women in education, and in science education in particular, is one key concern in developing countries. This concern arises from the fact that women constitute more than half the population and contribute enormously to the socio-economic development of these countries.
Author : O. Nnaemeka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137043822
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Engendering Human Rights written by O. Nnaemeka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African Diaspora. The individual chapters examine how human rights frameworks and practices differ in various political, economic, social, cultural, racial and gendered contexts througout Africa.
Author : Kiptoo Richard Maritim
Publisher : EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1535062290
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Girl Child and Education in Public Primary Schools in Pirrar Division in Transmara District, Narok County, Kenya written by Kiptoo Richard Maritim and published by EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education was considered as a key to a country’s development. This was the reason why countries all over the world invested heavily in education. While it was true that primary education opportunities had continued to expand in Kenya, a significant number of girls were not completing their studies, despite the Free Primary Education offered. There have been alarming dropout rates of primary school girls in Pirrar Division, in Transmara District, Narok County. The factors that led to this had not been adequately investigated and well understood, hence to find out the factors affecting girls’ education. The study was based on the Agrarian Transformation of socio-cultural change. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting girls’ education in primary schools. Three research questions were formulated to guide in this study. The objectives of the study were; to establish factors affecting the girls’ education in the division as well as to compare the enrollment of girls in primary schools and also to suggest possible solutions put in place by the government to safeguard the education of girls and suggest possible solutions against these factors. The locale of the study was Pirrar Division, Transmara District, Kenya. The study targeted public primary schools in Pirrar Division, Transmara District, Kenya, headteachers, teachers and pupils from these schools, Zonal Assurance Officers and District Quality Assurance Officer of Transmara District. The research adopted a survey design. It targeted teachers and pupils (girls) of primary schools in Transmara District. This study targeted 32 schools in Pirrar Division with a population of 6,580 pupils, 259 teachers, 3 ZQASO and 1 DQASO. The sample of this study was 180 pupils, 27 teachers, 1 ZQASO and 1 DQASO. That was 9 schools out of 32 were selected for sampling. This study employed questionnaires and interview schedule as research instruments. Piloting of the research instruments was done in four schools to test the validity and reliability of research instruments. The researcher also consulted the supervisors’ expertise in research to approve the content validity of the instruments. Test-re-test method was used to determine the reliability of the instruments. The data collected was coded and analyzed according to opinions derived through statistics using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences and was presented in form of tables, charts and graphs. From the research findings among the factors that affect girls’ education are early marriages, poverty and child labour, cultural practices and beliefs and pregnancies. The study found out that the enrollment of girls was lower than that of boys between 2008-2012. The government has put in place education and sensitization, enactment of law, building of boarding schools, free primary education, use of health services and education of girls in the division. The study recommends that the government should enact law that make education for all school age children and use county governments in sensitizing citizens on the importance of education.
Author : Mary Mokeira Ombonga
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Understanding Experiences of Girls in a Center of Excellence in Kajiado District, Kenya written by Mary Mokeira Ombonga and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Taeko Takayanagi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429880243
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women written by Taeko Takayanagi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of Maasai village women in Kenya. At present, knowledge and research on the impact of informal learning and literacy on community development is limited, and there is a gap between policy level discussions and women’s lived experiences. Using a postcolonial feminist framework, this book sets out to examine linkages between informal learning and literacy, human development and gender inequality. Despite improvements in recent years, access to traditional education remains restricted for many women in rural communities across Kenya. Takayangi’s book is the first to introduce how Maasai village women utilise informal learning and literacy for collective empowerment as well as to sustain their own well-being and that of their families. It presents the perspectives of both local women and institutions and argues that women’s learning is most effective when located within their own socio-cultural and political discourses, and when their voices are listened to and heard. This ethnographic research study is a valuable resource that will contribute to the knowledge of literacy from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It is an essential read for those studying or researching information education, development studies and gender, or education, as well as for teachers, community leaders and aid workers.
Author : mutindi mumbua kiluva-ndunda
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079149165X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Women's Agency and Educational Policy written by mutindi mumbua kiluva-ndunda and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book examines rural African women's experiences of education in Kilome, Kenya, providing engrossing, and oftentimes heartbreaking, testimony on the cultural, historical, social, economic, and political factors that have shaped, and continue to shape, women's educational and economic opportunities there. As a Kamba woman who grew up in rural Kenya and as one who received an education in the metropolitan cities of North America, the author presents these women's stories not simply from an insider's perspective, but as one who has shared experiences of the issues discussed in the book. Highlighting the struggles these women face to provide their children—particularly their daughters—with educational opportunities, the author draws attention to the gender and power issues that limit women's participation in the public sphere and illustrates how women in Kenya have been largely absent at the national level where educational policies are formulated.
Author : Auma Okwany
Publisher : Maklu
ISBN 13 : 9044134795
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Changing Social Norms to Universalize Girls' Education in East Africa written by Auma Okwany and published by Maklu. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The educational experience reproduces gender ideologies and social norms, which interact with schooling for girls in very particular ways and are implicated in their persistent gendered exclusion and marginalization. The authors in this volume focus on this link by taking a social norms approach to profile the processes, strategies of and research on community-led interventions. The chapters are paced around a pilot project that critically adapted a successful model in India to develop context-appropriate integrated approaches to universalizing secondary education for girls in purposively selected rural and urban poor contexts in Kenya and Uganda. The analyses provide reflexive documentation of the successes and challenges of project implementation activities that have successfully contested girls’ exclusion and marginalization in education. This requires a sustained focus on the link between social and educational institutions and policies and working in an integrated manner with a range of policy actors including young people and targeted communities to bring about significant and sustainable change.
Author : Joseph Zajda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401794936
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Second International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research written by Joseph Zajda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue. Divided into two parts, the handbook first examines globalisation and education policy reforms, including coverage of main trends as well as specific policy issues such as gender, equity, minorities and human rights. Next, the handbook offers a comparative perspective that evaluates the ambivalent and problematic relationship between globalisation, the state and education reforms globally. It features coverage on curricula issues and education reforms in schools around the world as well as the curriculum in the global culture. Now more than ever there is a need to understand and analyse both the intended and the unintended effects of globalisation on economic competitiveness, educational systems, the state and relevant policy changes--all as they affect individuals, the higher education sector, schools, policy-makers and powerful corporate organisations across the globe. By examining some of the major education policy issues, particularly in the light of recent shifts in education and policy research, this handbook offers readers a comprehensive picture of the impact of globalisation on education policy and reforms. It will serve as a vital sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in education.
Author : Mary Wairimu Gatua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781124886183
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Beneath the Surface written by Mary Wairimu Gatua and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study examines educational and socio-cultural experiences of seven Kenyan women pursuing higher education in the United States. The study uses in depth interviews to explore the participants' socio-cultural experiences, how they negotiate their multiple identities, and their transformative learning experiences. Three theoretical frameworks guide the methodology and analysis of the data: socio-cultural theory of learning, transformative theory and feminist pedagogy perspective. I assume that the participants' educational and socio-cultural experiences are shaped by social, cultural, and economic influences and that those experiences are modified throughout their lives. Socio-cultural theory asserts that learning and knowledge are intertwined with the context within which they occur. It extends beyond physical location to include individual, cultural, social, institutional and historical locations. Transformative learning claims that when individuals change their frames of reference by critically reflecting on their assumptions and beliefs; that bring about new ways of defining their worlds. Transformative learning is also understood as the process of using a prior interpretation to construe a new or a revised interpretation of the meaning of one's experience in order to guide future actions. The Feminist pedagogy perspective contends that dialogue and developing meaning from experience are the central element to the perspective. It assists in documenting the ways in which females' educational experience is shaped by culture and by institutions that disadvantage females by silencing their voices. The three theories guide the discussion of the contradicting messages about women's lived experiences as they negotiate, confront their multiple identities, and make meaning out of their learning experiences. The narrative inquiry methodology provides an in depth understanding of the participants' experiences and perspectives and the stories that give meaning to their learning journeys. Studying the stories and lives of these women has the potential to give voice to the voiceless and increase our knowledge about Kenyan and African women in general. In addition, the findings will be of interest to adult educators and postsecondary faculty by offering guidance as they work towards improving the academic experience for diverse students in their classrooms. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest llc. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.].
Author : Pauline Akai Lokuruka
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Constraints Facing the Development of Girl-child Education in the Nomadic Pastoral Communities in Kenya written by Pauline Akai Lokuruka and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fibian Lukalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000481131
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Mothers and Schooling written by Fibian Lukalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the ‘free education policy’. Based on a prize-winning study examining mothers’ attitudes to education in a rural Kenyan community, this vividly nuanced ethnographic work draws upon African feminist perspectives to describe the livelihoods and aspirations of 32 mothers responsible for over 180 children. It explores the effects of mothers’ school histories and the constraining effects of land practices and patriarchal culture on their actions. Their school choice and engagement strategies reflect different facilitating environments, their educational values, the use of social mothering practices and reliance on kinship reciprocity. The findings illustrate the importance of recognising the diversity of mothers’ situations within this small community and the pressures they face to be ‘good mothers’ who school their children. Mothers and Schooling highlights the importance of mothers’ educational agency and is essential reading for anthropologists of education, those working in gender studies, poverty alleviation strategists, educational researchers, teachers and policy-makers who wish to improve the success of Education for All for the children of women living in Southern rural poverty.
Author : Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349564583
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Kenya After 50 written by Mickie Mwanzia Koster and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malve von Möllendorff
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928502342
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools written by Malve von Möllendorff and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is considered key for societies to achieve greater social cohesion and equality. Yet, schools, as the main providers of formal education, have increasingly come into question concerning their role in manifesting and perpetuating social categorisations, inequalities and discrimination instead of decreasing existing fragmentations and challenging power relations and hierarchies. As a diverse society, Kenya is faced with power struggles and rivalries between different groups - for instance, along ethnic lines, often constructed deep in colonial history. This affects teaching and learning in school and the result is that Kenya is faced with vast disparities in terms of educational access and success - rendering some social groups marginalised and others favoured. Positioning Diversity at Kenyan Schools explores the ways in which teachers in Kenyan primary and secondary schools experience and deal with social categorisations and diversity in terms of ethnicity, gender, wealth, culture, religion, etc. in their professional practice and in the current education system. Using critical pedagogy and diversity theory as a lens for positioning diversity in Kenyan schools, the questions that this book sets out to answer are: In what ways do the teachers' and schools' practices lead to transformation in terms of more social equality and less discrimination? In what ways do the practices manifest existing group categorisations, hierarchies and discrimination? How can schools and teaching practices in postcolonial Kenya become more inclusive and foster social cohesion and equality?
Author : Janipher Amani Ocholla
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659460616
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Influence of Selected Cultural Practices on Girls' Education written by Janipher Amani Ocholla and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls' participation in education seem to be dismal in many parts of the world. The dismal level of participation is attributed to the cultural practices that influence girls, enrolment, retention and completion of education. Despite the critical role of female education plays in the development of the society Kenya still experiences gender disparity at all levels of deducation.It is evident that inequality in the provision of education may have a negative effect not only to the individual but also to the community. The study established that female genital mutilation, gender roles, societal attitude and early marriage influence girls' participation in education at the secondary school level in Kuria district, Kenya. Education is key in development and girls faced with these challenges cannot perform well in school nor participate effectively in the development of the society. The report forms a source of reference to those interested in the enhancement of girls' education.
