Abstract: The Botswana education system bases its philosophy on education for all using English and Setswana as the official languages for learning and teaching in schools despite the diversity of the society. Botswana has 8 Setswana ethnic groups with Setswana as their mother tongue and 26 minority languages. Some of them speak Sengologa/ Sekgalagadi; a language of their so-called masters. The Basarwa children find it difficult to converse in Setswana but are usually taught by teachers from...
Abstract This study examines ethical values and social reforms in Early Childhood Care Education. Moral and value are important virtue needed for the growth and development of every child, hence is it supposed to be inculcated for standards to be maintained in the society. The paper therefore, aims at re- awakening the schools and caregivers on the knowledge which have been neglected due to unnecessary changes in the curriculum, insufficient qualified caregivers and so on. These hamper the ef...
Objectives: This study determined the pupil’s evaluation and academic performance of Cheberen Primary School In Koibatek District, Kenya. Specificaiiy, these data were gathered: profile of pupils as to age, gender and class; the level of pupil’s evaluation in terms & pupils qualities, commitment, learning activItIes and discipline; the level & academic performance; the significant relationship between level of pupil’s evaluation and level of academic performance; and the significant dif...
The introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) by the NARC government in 2003 heralded a new front in the national education system. Many children who had attained school going age who had been denied entry access to education due to poverty got a new window of hope whatever their age. Many thus took up the opportunity to attend school without necessary going through ECD centres. What mattered was whether one had attained the required age and not whether one had passed tests in the EC...
ABSTRACT The study set out to establish the factors that account for poor a cad em ic pe1formance in rural secondaiy schools. It was carried out along a number of objectives which included: assessing the relationship between students' discipline and academic perfo1mance, to examine the accessibility of students to learning materials and their effect on academic petlormance and to find out the effect of teachers' motivation practices on the students' academic perfonnance. From these objective...