ABSTRACT This study was geared towards primary schools for learners with hearing impairment in Kenya. It sought to identify communication challenges faced by teachers of English language in selected primary schools for the hearing impaired in Central Kenya. The objectives of the study were to: Establish communication techniques used by teachers of English in schools for learners with hearing impairment; Investigate the teachers‘ competence in the communication techniques used; Seek views o...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate insights of teachers towards indisciplined students and the academic performance of students. The study employed phenomenological research design to collect and analyse data. Semistructured interviews were conducted with three categories of respondents: heads of schools, discipline masters and teachers of public secondary schools. Twelve informants were purposively selected from a number of schools. The findings of the study revealed tea...
This paper proposes the creation of Anthropological Pedagogy as a distinct field of study within the framework of Anthropology, interfacing traditional Anthropology and Pedagogy with some pre-defined principles and objectives, chiefly designed to promote Anthropological goals and objectives through the medium of education. This paper proposes to lay the groundwork for what we believe will be an exciting and promising field, and we hope other researchers, scholars, Anthropologists and Pedagogi...
ABSTRACT Physics is a science subject that has contributed immensely to the technological advancement of the world. In the Kenyan 8-4-4 curriculum, it is optional at form three. However, various studies show that physics in Kenya has been faced with poor performance. Consequently, many students drop out of the subject. Educational researchers have partially attributed the cause to be poor instructional methods. This study attempts to change this trend in the topic of moments in physics. Data...
ABSTRACT Chemistry occupies a central position among science subjects in the secondary school curriculum. It also takes up a significant place in the curriculum because of its applications in everyday life and the role it plays in enabling students to develop affective intellectual, and practical skills. In spite of this increasing importance in the unfolding world, the academic performance of Kenyan students in the subject in secondary schools has remained poor over the years. The fundamenta...
ABSTRACT Recent developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have influenced approaches to teaching and learning in schools in the world. Consequently, elearning has become more and more widespread because of its advantages over the conventional ways of teaching. The Government of Kenya developed a national ICT strategy for education and training whose objective was to encourage use of ICTs in all educational institutions. This was aimed at creating an ICT-literate citizenr...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, the performance of secondary school students in physics is a matter of great concern to the Ministry of Education because physics is among the key subjects expected to make Kenya realize vision 2030. The performance at secondary school level has been poor for a long time. It is possible that gender influences performance of physics as a subject since there is a long standing belief that physics is a domain of male students. This study focused on the Influence of Gender and...
ABSTRACT Chemistry is a fundamental science and is responsible for many of the materials used in modern society as well as developments and tests carried out in the field of medicine. However, Kenya’s secondary school students’ performance in chemistry has been poor. This poor performance has been attributed partially to teaching methods used in the classroom.Thus, there is need to seek teaching strategies that can improve students’ performance in chemistry and motivate them. The use of...
ABSTRACT Fine Arts is one of the five themes broadly taught under Cultural and Creative Arts subjects at the junior secondary school level, which facilitate transfer of knowledge and have practical application in other subject areas. These qualities not withstanding, many students are still deficient in the rudiments of fine arts (principles and elements of art/ application of colours), and this contribute to the persistent decline in students‟ learning outcomes. Despite the focus of previ...
ABSTRACT The traditional instructional strategy employed by most biology teachers in teaching environment-related concepts have resulted in low learning outcomes. Two strategies have been proved in literature to have exposed students to a higher thinking order needed to recognise assumptions, evaluate controversies, and scrutinise inferences in alleviating the problem of low students‘ learning outcomes in biology, but they have not been utilised in the teaching of environmental concept in b...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate rural secondary school children’s positioning on children’s human rights: a case study of Gonawapotera Secondary School. Questionnaires and interviews were used as data collecting instruments in the process of gathering data. Eight teachers at Gonawapotera Secondary School, thirty pupils and twenty parents were randomly selected as participants for the study. Data was then presented and analysed thematically. The major findings showed that childre...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at establishing the role played by school management in handling career-related stress (HCRS) in secondary schools in Tarime District in Tanzania. The investigation was conducted through mixed research approach to meet the three objectives of the study which were to examine the extent of existing level of career related stress (CRS) among teachers based on their sex, level of education, work experience and general teachers perception, to identify the main mechanisms...
ABSTRACT The study sought to analyze leadership training of head teachers in secondary schools in Dodoma Municipality. It used mixed method to collect and analyzed data. Data was collected through observations and interviews conducted with teachers and head teachers. The study adopted a case study research design that gives unitary character of data being studied by inter-relating a variety of facts to a single case. In this regard, data for this study were collected on the independent vari...
Abstract This doctoral research pursued the intersection of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and place-based education in Ugandan secondary schools. Particular interest was placed on how teachers use place-based education pedagogies to influence their own as well as their learners’ reconnection to their communities, cultures and places towards a more sustainable future. Even though the role of community elders1 of guardianship and instruction of IK has been weakened by the formal education syste...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the effectiveness of subject panels in enhancing teachers‟ professional development in secondary schools in Tanzania. It was influenced by the Zanzibar Education Vision 2020 that made the revival of subject panels as strategy for upgrading teachers‟ skills to solve the challenges in implementing the curriculum at school settings. The study was guided by Social Learning Theories postulated by Vygotsky (1978) and System Theories by Senge (1990) and it was embe...