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Research Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Masters of Education (Special Needs Education) in the School of Education of Kenyatta University, September, 2015

The depiction of physical impairments in popular culture reflects as well as moulds public perception and attitudes towards people with disabilities. The vast body of literature has been devoted to the analysis and documentation of images of disabilities on the Internet, literary fiction, films, advertisements and television programming in the western societies, but there has been less attention directed towards exploring the representation of people with disabilities in popular culture in...

Handbook of Theological Education in Africa. Edited by Isabel Apawo Phiri and Dietrich Wemer. (Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2013, Pp. xxx, 1113. £54.99); Asian Handbook for Theological Education and Ecumenism. Edited by Hope Antone, Wati Longchar, Hyunju Bae, Huan Po Ho, and Dietrich Wemer. (Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2013, Pp. xxii, 666. £38.49.)A volume of more than 1100 pages, which aims to provide a thorough survey of theological education on the African continent and...

Numerous studies have documented the determinants of sexual behavior among adolescents in less-developed countries, yet relatively little is known about the influence of social contexts such as school and neighborhood. Using two waves of data from a school-based longitudinal survey conducted in Malawi from 2011-13, this study advances our understanding of the relationship between school-level socioeconomic contexts and adolescents' sexual activity. The results from two-level multinomial...

The study investigated classroom instruction reinforcement strategies and factors that influence implementation of the reinforcement strategies used by primary school teachers in the classroom in Kikuyu district of Kenya.The study was guided by the Operant Conditioning Theory.The study employed a Mixed Methods design in which both quantitative and qualitative data were collected.The target population teachers and pupils from public primary schools.Data was collected by using questionnaires...

The purpose of the study was to determine Classroom Reinforcement Schedules and Their Effectiveness in Selected Kenyan Primary Schools.The study employed a Mixed Methods design in which both quantitative and qualitative data were collected.The target population teachers and pupils from public primary schools.Data was collected by using questionnaires and interview schedules.Quantitative data was analyzed using inferential statistics while Qualitative data was analyzed by using the thematic...

The study was on determining the availability, utility and relevancy of the certificate of secondary education textual materials from randomly selected 12 secondary schools in Morogoro region. It was observed that the most utilized textual materials were those which could often be sited by examiners. Approved textbooks were outdated hence they were least utilized compared to the reference books which were more current according to the syllabus in use. Though the most utilized textbooks...

Research Article| September 01, 2015 AGE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VOLCANIC BLOUBERGSTRAND MEMBER IN THE PAN-AFRICAN SALDANIA BELT, SOUTH AFRICA A.F.M. KISTERS; A.F.M. KISTERS Department of Earth Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa, e-mail: akisters@sun.ac.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar C. AGENBACH; C. AGENBACH Department of Earth Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa, Present address:...

We evaluated the effectiveness of anesthesia education delivered via Internet videoconferencing between the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda.This is a prospective educational study.The setting is the education in 2 hospitals in Uganda and the United States.The subjects are anesthesia residents.The interventions are anesthesia education lectures delivered in person and via Internet videoconferencing.The average pre-lecture and...

A research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Educational Psychology) in the faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2014.

Capacity building in agriculture has become imperative in Nigeria due to the high rate of youth unemployment, over-dependence on white collar job and the need to prepare a replacement for the aging local subsistence farmers. To achieve this trend, some states in Nigeria established youth training farms to empower the youth in agriculture sector. Integrated Youth Training Farm Program was established by the Kwara State government as a youth empowerment strategy to reduce unemployment and...

Taking the Korogocho community as its starting point, this article explores the respective roles, dynamics and relationship between formal and informal volunteering. Following an overview of the research's participatory systemic action research (SAR) methodology, the article outlines how the widespread use of stipends and allowances by external development organisations has blurred the distinction between formal volunteerism and low-paid work – something that disincentivises volunteering...

This study aims to provide model estimates of changes in hydrological elements, such as EvapoTranspiration (ET) and runoff, in Southern Africa in the near future until 2029. The climate change scenarios are projected by a high-resolution Regional Climate Model (RCM), RegCM4, which is the latest version of this model developed by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The hydrological projections are performed by using a large-scale hydrological model (WASMOD-D),...

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In the debate about possible linkages between global environmental change and violent conflict, the research is overwhelmingly based on analysis of aggregate data for administrative areas, towns or villages, and geographic grids. With some exceptions, researchers rarely examine social and political processes that might link climate anomalies and violence experiences at the scale of individuals or households. We remedy this shortcoming by analyzing survey data for 504 Kenyans living in three...

This farm-level study in the Niger basin of Benin aims to assess the impacts of climate shocks on farm activities and to simulate adaptation policy responses using a recursive dynamic mathematical programming model. Eight types of farmers were identified, and the results show that the average farm income declines under climate shocks, by 17.43 to 69.48%, compared to the baseline scenario. Farmers of agro-ecological zone II will be affected the most by climate shocks, followed by those in...

This paper discusses causes of the sluggish growth rates of mobile learning in a developing country (Botswana), despite the mobile phone revolution and proposes future directions in application of mobile technology to enhance education in emerging economies.

This article reports on the findings of a study that set out to investigate parents' preference of secondary schools that their children joined for form one in 2015.The study adopted a quantitative survey approach involving parents whose children had joined form one (first year in secondary school) this year.Parents were purposively sampled for the study.A questionnaire (both closed and open-ended) was used to collect data.The response rate was 83.3%.The data obtained from the survey and...

The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing in South Africa and can be linked to decreased physical activity (PA). It is therefore important to be able to accurately measure children’s PA levels. The primary aim of this study was to determine whether children in grades two and three are able to self-report PA by means of a questionnaire. Fifty-eight participants (28 females, 30 males) from a primary school in Gauteng were recruited for the study. The participants had to wear a...