Anthony M. Wanjohi: Career choice entails making decision about what one wants to do with his/her life that is, in terms of occupation. There are hundreds of career options out there. How do you make a career choice when you don’t really know what you want to do? Does it seem like a BIG task….
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Child Rearing Practices in Africa
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Child rearing practices are as old as humanity. Effective child-care practices play a vital role in children’s growth, brain development, personality enhancement and health promotion. In most parts of Africa, child-rearing practices are highly influenced by the traditional norms and values. Such norms include but may not be limited to cutting of…
Role of Co-curricular Activities in Students’ Social Development
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Co-curriculum is a very important and essential part of an education system. It is the co-curriculum aspect of the education that prepares and moulds the student to be holistic. Nevertheless more emphasis has generally been given to the curriculum aspect resulting from the students‘inability to link the excellence in performance academically to…
Improving Access to Education among Nomads in Kenya
Anthony M. Wanjohi: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, declared that “everyone has a right to education.” The World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in 1990, sparked off a new impetus towards basic education especially with its so-called vision and renewed commitment. Many governments in developing world embraced this call and…
Curriculum Evaluation
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Evaluation is the process of collecting data on a programme to determine its value or worth with the aim of deciding whether to adopt, reject, or revise the programme (Oluoch, 2006). Programmes are evaluated to answer questions and concerns of various parties. The public want to know whether the curriculum implemented has…
Curriculum Evaluation Process
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Evaluation is the process of collecting data on a programme to determine its value or worth with the aim of deciding whether to adopt, reject, or revise the programme (Oluoch, 2006). This article briefly explores various components of curriculum evaluation. These include preparation, designing of data collection instruments, conducting analysis, reporting and…
Indigenous Knowledge
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Indigenous Knowledge (IK) can be understood as knowledge that has evolved in a particular societal context which is used by lay people in that context in the conduct of their lives. It is generated in specific local contexts in response to specific local problems, it is often influenced by knowledge generated in…
Factors Influencing the Establishment of Mobile Schools
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Education forms the backbone of economy. Failure to invest in education by any civilized nation is the greatest injustice to the citizens. In developed countries, not everyone has access to school. For instance, in Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) in Kenya, access to schools is not guaranteed. The establishment of ‘mobile’…
Stress Coping Mechanisms for Teachers
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Coping refers to behavior that protects people from being psychologically harmed by problematic social experience (Pearlin and Schooler, 1978). Pearlin and Schooler maintain that the protective function of coping behavior can be exercised in three ways: by eliminating or modifying conditions giving rise to problems; by perceptually controlling the meaning of experience…
Interventions to Address Occupational Stress among Teachers
Anthony M. Wanjohi: Owing to the negative effects of stress on performance, organizations strive to come up with a number of intervention measures to help their employees to cope. Schools are encouraged to offer healthy working environment, work towards reducing teachers’ workload, establishing programs to help teachers to cope, and to stabilize the curriculum and…