Faculty of Education and Social Science(FESS): Recent submissions
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Challenges of open and distance learning in Kenya: the Case of public universities
(2017)Kenyan education policy is based on a number of legislations including the constitution of Kenya (1961), Education Act (1968), Children Act (2001) and sessional paper no. 11 of 2005 on policy framework for education and ... -
Socio-economic factors influencing implementation of the Ainabkoi settlement scheme 1963-2008 in Eldoret east district, Kenya
(2013-10)Settlement schemes in Kenya have been faced with various constraints since independence in 1963. The main purpose of the study was to examine the socio-economic factors that affected Ainabkoi settlement scheme from ... -
Kenya’s constituency development fund (CDF): Citizens’ awareness in Kanduyi constituency of Bungoma county
(International journal of african and asian studies, 201)Constituency Development Fund (CDF) is a strategy that channels resources to community projects proposed by community members. It is a participatory fund and increases citizens’ involvement in the provision of services which ... -
Institutional mapping for climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa
(2008-10)A number of constraints to reducing the vulnerability of socioeconomic systems to climate change exist, key among these being the disconnect between national adaptation efforts and research. This in-depth study maps out ... -
The changing roles of school Managers: Where the rubber meets the road
(2015-08)School Managers in Kenya are a group faced with an array of emerging and challenging roles in a rapidly changing society. This is coupled with increasingly great expectation by education stakeholders that school managers ... -
Teachers professional development sustainable and generative modes
(2011)The issue of professional development for teachers has in the recent past drawn substantive attention from education stakeholders, the world over. This is with particular consideration of the relationship that exists ... -
Teacher mentoring: A Synonym for teacher professional instruction and guidance
(2017): Induction programs largely focus on informing the beginning teacher about the school culture and infrastructure yet the core business of education is teaching and learning. This qualitative study uses a survey, ... -
Action Research: The panacea for challenges in ESL teaching in Kenya
(Horizon research publishing, 2017-04)Teachers of English in contexts where English is a second language are constantly thinking about their practice. It may be about routine classroom events or an initiative that one wishes to implement but wonders how ... -
Educational exigencies of the 21st century: Implications for teacher education programmes in East Africa
(2013-04-15)Questions about what constitutes effective teacher education, compatible with today’s changing educational demands, have become commonplace. This article is therefore an overview of ideas about the elements of effective ... -
Multilingualism and language attitudes: students perceptions towards kiswahili in Mtwara region of Tanzani
(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)The role of language attitudes on language choice, development and policy in multilingual societies cannot be over emphasized (Adegbija, 1994; Batibo, 2005). Monolingual speakers have only one attitude towards their language ... -
Retrieval of aerosol optical depth over ecologically stressed east African land surfaces from top of atmosphere radiance utilizing the aerosol free vegetation index
(Dept. of Geography, Bahir Dar University, 2005)Traditional satellite based AOD retrieval techniques with a coarse resolution such as collection 5 hardly provides a high spatial detail suitable for accurate AOD retrieval particularly over the ecologically stressed ... -
Characterization of Kenyan ceramics for production of medium duty alumina firebrick incinerator linings
(2018)The aim of this study was to evaluate locally available ceramic raw materials for the manufacture of Medium Duty Alumina Refractory Firebrick for incinerator lining.The clays were collected from two sites, Eburru in Nakuru ... -
Stakeholders' dilemma and academic leadership on the different computing disciplines
(2018-09-30)There is significant overlap between the uniqueness of the disciplines that has complicated trainers, learners and business community’s choice between the different disciplines. As computing has rapidly evolved its ... -
Language endangerment and language maintenance: can endangered indigenous languages of Kenya be electronically preserved?
(IJHSS, 2013)United Nations Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) contend that languages are the centre piece of the cultural diversity of the world yet they are also a vulnerable part of the world’s cultural heritage. ... -
Towards the utilization of instructional media for effective teaching and learning of english in Kenya
(2014)Although English language is a compulsory subject in the Kenyan school curriculum, its teaching faces enhancement challenges. English language has been allotted more time for effective teaching and learning, this is however, ... -
Challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in accessing public contracts in Bondo, Kenya
(International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy, 2014-05-01)Kenya Government has been in the forefront in advocating for the youth access to Government Contracts. This has been evidenced by the Presidential Directive on Youth Access to Govermnent contracts by allocating 10% of ... -
Violation of linguistic and patient’s rights in Kenya
(United states international university (USIU), 2012)Health communication, particularly patients’ rights, has become an issue of concern in the recent past. This paper exposes the patients’ rights violation on two main planes: the linguistic plane and the right to information ... -
Assessing argumentative normativity in the english medium Kenyan newspaper editorials from a linguistic-pragmatic approach
(2012)The paper explores argumentative Normativity in the English medium newspaper editorials in Kenya. The paper aimed at establishing whether the editorials meet the logical, dialectal and rhetorical demands as aspects ... -
Cartoons can talk? visual analysis of cartoons on the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya: a visual argumentation approach
(Sage Publications, 2012-05)The growing influence of the visual media in contemporary society is quite alarming; hence, learning to explicate them is inevitable. This is a paradigm shift from verbal argumentation to visual argumentation. The aim ... -
Exploring the challenges and opportunities in microfinance group lending model among poor aids affected households
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2016-12)Micro financing has been taken as panacea in disaster mitigation. In helping poor and AIDS affected households come out of poverty in Kakamega County, Kenya, microfinance institutions (MFIs) use group lending model. This ...