School of Education Humanities and Social Sciences (JA): Recent submissions
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Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels
(2021-07)Many postcolonial literary scholars associate otherness with political and racial marginalisation of groups. Indomitable postcolonial voices such as Frantz Fanon and Edward Said take this trajectory, thereby negating other ... -
Onward and Return Migrations: Migrant Characters in Hisham Matars’ The Return (2017) and A Month in Siena (2019)
(2021-07)Migration scholars have divergent views concerning the experiences of migrant characters in foreign nations. The first group of scholars suggest that migrant characters are never settled and because of disarticulating ... -
Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction
(Literature Association of South Africa and Unisa Press., 2022)The advent of the modernist dream resulted in the universalisation of culture, which entails deliberate effort to abandon traditional ways of life that foster difference and instead embracing national cultures to bring ... -
The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12)Dominant literary conversations like post-structuralism have crowned the literary writer as an impartial and reliable voice for the voiceless in oppressive cultural settings. Since the marginal group is weak and cannot ... -
The Role Of Parental Support On Science Self-Efficacy Among Secondary School Students In Muranga, Kenya
(2022-09)The paper explored parental involvement factors that affect 498 secondary school students’ science self-efficacy in Murang’a County Kenya. The choice of determining future engagement in the science disciplines in the world ... -
Effect of on-the-Job Training Technique on Job Performance at Murang’a University of Technology in Kenya
(2022-09)On-the-job training of employees is a big challenge to employees and specifically those working in universities in Kenya. The main purpose of this study therefore, was to explore the effect of on-the job training on employee ... -
Parental Career Support as a Correlate of Career Decision Making Among Secondary Students in Muranga County, Kenya
(2022-07-07)The ability to decide on a career is an important decision made by students while at secondary school level, the choice determining future engagement in the world of work. Studies in Kenya have identified fewer secondary ... -
Effect of Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy on Students’ Mathematics Achievement in Secondary Schools in Laikipia County, Kenya
(2016)Despite the important role mathematics plays in the society, there has been persistent poor performance in the subject in the Kenya Certificate Secondary Education (KCSE). This raises concern to all stakeholders in education ... -
The Effect of Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy on Students’ Mathematics Self-Concept By Gender In Secondary Schools In Laikipia County, Kenya
(2018-11)Students’ gender differences in mathematics self-concept have important implications for the under-representation of women in science. Typically, students’ gender differences in mathematics self-concept emerge at the ... -
Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy and Students’ Self-Concept in Mathematics
(2016)Knowledge of mathematics as a tool for use in everyday life is important of any individual and society. In schools, it equips students with a unique and powerful set of skills to understand the world and also become ... -
Effects of Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy on Students’ Achievement by Gender Differences in Secondary School Mathematics in Laikipia East District, Kenya
(2013)Students’ Gender differences in mathematics achievement have important implications for the underrepresentation of women in science. Typically, students’ gender differences in mathematics achievement emerge at the beginning ... -
Effects Of Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy On Students’ Achievement in Secondary School Mathematics In Laikipia East District, Kenya
(2013-07)Knowledge of mathematics as a tool for use in everyday life is important for the existence of any individual and society. It equips students with unique and powerful set of tools to understand the world and become ... -
Challenges Faced by Parents in Implementing Competence Based Curriculum in Primary Schools: Kenyan Perspective
(2022-05)The successful implementation of competency-based curriculum at all education levels will be determined by parental understanding of skills, knowledge and attitudes imparted. Parental engagement in educational activities ... -
Effect of Software-Oriented Concept Mapping on Kenyan Students’ Achievement in Electrochemistry
(2020-01)This study investigated the effect of using Software-Oriented Concept Mapping on students’ achievement in electrochemistry among secondary school students in Kakamega County, Kenya. It was grounded on David Ausubel’s ... -
Effect of Programmed Instruction on Students’ Attitude Towards Structure of the Atom and the Periodic Table among Kenyan Secondary Schools
(International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE), 2015)This study examined the effect of Programmed Instruction on students’ attitude towards Structure of the Atom and the Periodic Table (SAPT) among mixed (co-educational) secondary schools of Butere district, Kakamega county, ... -
The Influence of Peer Counseling on the Level of Alcohol Abuse among Students in Public Day Secondary Schools in Imenti South SubCounty, Kenya
(East African Scholars Journal of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, 2020-06)The study ascertained the influence of peer counselling intervention on the level of alcohol abuse among students in public day secondary schools in Imenti South sub-county, Kenya. The research was implemented using the ... -
Promoting Students’ Academic Self-Efficacy in Chemistry through Teaching Using Molecular Models
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2016-09)This study investigated how students’ self efficacy in Chemistry is affected through the use of molecular models as contrasted with the conventional instructional strategies in the topic of Structure And Bonding (SAB). The ... -
Motivating Students to Learn Chemistry by Programmed Instruction: The case of Kenyan Secondary Schools
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2016-08)This study investigated how students‟ motivation in Chemistry is affected through the use of Programmed Instruction in abstract topics. The research location was Butere sub-county, Kakamega County, Kenya. Quasiexperimental ... -
The Guidance and Counseling Interventions Given to Students Who Abuse Alcohol: Case of Kenyan Public Day Secondary Schools
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2018-04)Alcohol is one of the most abused drugs among the youth in the world today and this is one of the reasons leading to poor performance by Kenyan secondary school students in national examinations. The purpose of this study ... -
Effect of Programmed Instruction on Academic Achievement in Radioactivity among Students in Kenyan High Schools
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2016)This study was prompted by the urgent need for effective technology-based strategies in the teaching and learning of abstract chemistry topics whose inadequacy has led to students‟ low achievement in the subject during in ...