Francis Likoye Malenya

Kenyatta University · Educational Foundations Department

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically review the well-intended plan by the government through the Ministry of Education to continue providing quality learning through online learning and in an equitable and inclusive manner during school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a review...

Education is perceived to be one of the means through which people could achieve a good life. In this paper part of the data of the study that examined Tanzanian university students’ conceptions of a good life was used to assess students’ views on the extent to which education has promoted the attainment of a good life among Tanzanian citizens. It...

The closure of all institutions of learning by the government in March 2020 upon the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a paradigm shift in education. Teaching and learning moved from face-to-face to the virtual mode to enable schools to complete their first-term syllabus. Despite this provision for continuation, learning ceased fo...

The provision of basic education in urban informal settlements in Kenya has invariably been described as poorly organized, less equitable and hence, one that is in crisis. This chapter examines the state of basic education as a function of the policies and approaches that guide its provision. It is argued in this chapter that the manner in which ed...

This paper is drawn from a research carried out on the suitability of Kenya’s education in relation to development of skilled human resource. The inquiry followed a revelation that individuals left schools and colleges either incompetent or irrelevantly skilled, a situation that undermined both individual and national development. The research took...

There has been a growing concern in Kenya that boys have gradually been left out of the gender equation with little research capturing their schooling experiences. When examined, boys’ underachievement is treated with suspicion that has led to few studies demonstrating their marginalisation. This paper explored the manifestations of boys’ underachi...

Background: There has been increasing enthusiasm to include work integrated learning in higher education owing to the benefit that accrue for the undertaking by the students, higher education institutions and the participating workplaces and the requirement by the regulatory framework of its integration in the curriculum. This has been done in Ugan...

Workplace Learning (WPL) has increasingly attracted the attention of higher education in Uganda. The inclusion of students' placement in the academic programmes as a recommendation by national council for higher education has given WPL a more legitimate platform. As WPL is embraced the organisation of students' placement as a basis of its meaningfu...

The study was an empirical exploration of the kinds of communication technologies used in perpetrating different forms of Cyber Dating Abuse. The study was guided by Routine activities theory which states that the daily activities that individuals engage in make them susceptible to Cyber Dating Abuse. The study utilized data collected from 315 dati...

This study sought to assess the prevalence and perceptions held regarding behaviors that constitute Cyber Dating Abuse among undergraduate students in selected universities in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Johnson‟s typology of intimate partner violence was used to investigate the prevalence of the forms of cyber dating abuse.

This paper explores the challenges and prospects of inclusive education for learners with disabilities in the integrated education system in Kenyan primary schools. Data were collected in five and nine public schools in Nairobi and Marsabit respectively, by means of questionnaires administered to 126 teachers, semi-structured interviews with 14 hea...

This paper focuses on perceptions of teachers and parents on the constructions of masculinities among schoolboys vis-a-vis schoolgirls in Kirinyaga and Nairobi counties. The paper is derived from a study conducted 2011 and 2012 titled “Girl-specific education focus and boys’ participation, performance and construction of masculinities in selected K...

This paper focuses on findings based on analysis of perceptions of teachers and parents on how schoolboys in Kirinyaga and Nairobi counties constructed masculinities as they negotiated manhood in the midst of a clearly defined race towards attaining Education for All (EFA) goals in Kenya, by end of 2015, which is around the corner –metaphorically s...

This paper focuses on perceptions of teachers and parents on the constructions of masculinities among schoolboys vis-a-vis schoolgirls in Kirinyaga and Nairobi counties. The paper is derived from a study conducted 2011 and 2012 titled “Girl-specific education focus and boys’ participation, performance and construction of masculinities in selected K...

This is a collaborative of research conceptualisation within the Africa-Asia Universities Dialogue (A-A Dialogue) on Education Development Network. The presentation exemplifies project focus of the Gender and Equity Group within the A-A Dialogue Network combining an overview of the network by Centre of International Collaboration in Education (CICE...