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Influence of Training on Performance of Public Primary School Teachers
(International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2016)Training is practical instruction in job and task requirements. Performance is the means by which workers demonstrate that they have understood the training and can apply it in practical situations. The problem under study ... -
Injecting the African spirit of humanity into teaching, learning and assessment of musical arts in the modern classroom
(Routledge, 2014)African music scholars are currently grappling with the challenges of refocusing musical arts based on indigenous knowledge for classroom practice as well as developing Africa-sensed musical arts curricula that use ... -
Inscribing memory, healing a nation: post-election violence and the search for truth and justice in Kenya Burning
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a ... -
Integrating food and nutrition, health, agricultural and environmental education towards education for sustainable development: lessons learned from the Healthy Learning …
(Academic Journals, 2009)Education for sustainable development (ESD) in seen as an opportunity for Kenya and other countries to continuously build its citizens’ capacity towards healthy measures for utilizing the country’s resources to foster ... -
INTEREST AND SCIENCE PERFORMANCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MIGORI COUNTY, KENYA: GENDER AS A MODERATOR
(Research and Analysis Journal, 2020)The purpose of this study was to establish the moderating role of gender in the influence of interest on science performance among secondary school students in Migori county. A sample of 327 Form Four students in Migori ... -
The Intergenerational Transmission of Maladaptive Parenting and its Impact on Child Mental Health: Examining Cross-Cultural Mediating Pathways and Moderating Protective Factors
(Springer US, 2022)Using a sample of 1338 families from 12 cultural groups in 9 nations, we examined whether retrospectively remembered Generation 1 (G1) parent rejecting behaviors were passed to Generation 2 (G2 parents), whether such ... -
The Intergenerational Transmission of Maladaptive Parenting and its Impact on Child Mental Health: Examining Cross-Cultural Mediating Pathways and Moderating Protective Factors
(Springer US, 2022-01-05)Using a sample of 1338 families from 12 cultural groups in 9 nations, we examined whether retrospectively remembered Generation 1 (G1) parent rejecting behaviors were passed to Generation 2 (G2 parents), whether such ... -
International Collaboration in the Study of Positive Youth Development
(Springer, 2021)The goal of this chapter is to describe how international collaborative research can contribute to understanding of Positive Youth Development (PYD). Throughout the chapter, we draw on examples from the Parenting Across ... -
International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management
(International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management, 2020)This paper explores how PWD's well-being is realized in disaster situations in Kisumu County of Kenya. There is a significant population of 15,760 persons with disability across Kisumu County. Their well-being is protected ... -
An international perspective on parenting and family influences on adolescents and young adults.
(American Psychological Association, 2022)Parents and their adolescent and young adult offspring observe and participate in parent–offspring interactions in their communities and hold expectations about their own relationships derived in part from culturally shaped ... -
Interpersonal influences in the scale-up of male circumcision services in a traditionally non-circumcising community in rural western Kenya
(2011-01)Promoting male circumcision (MC) is now recognized as an additional, important strategy for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men, and plans are underway to scale-up this intervention especially ... -
Intraindividual variability in parental acceptance-rejection predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms across childhood/adolescence in nine countries.
(American Psychological Association, 2023-09-21)Parenting that is high in rejection and low in acceptance is associated with higher levels of internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) problems in children and adolescents. These symptoms develop and can increase in ... -
An Introduction to Communication, Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Communication, 2017)because it comes at a time when communication scholars from the global South are increasingly challenging the dominance of Western modernity in communication and media studies. Many scholars have decried the U.S.–UK ... -
Introduction: Religion and Inequality in Africa
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Investigation of Optimal Temperature Distribution, Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Friction Stir Welded Copper Alloy Joints
(Research gate, 2018)In this work to determine the maximum temperature at weld zone by using three dimensional finite element heat transfer model is developed by ANSYS. Copper specimens were prepared under different FSW condition, by varying ... -
An investigation of partial meaning and non-equivalence in English translations of Ekegusii kinship terms
(Journal of Advances in Linguistics, 2015)The main challenge that translators face is that of non-equivalence as the source language (SL) and the target language (TL) almost always have cultural and linguistic differences (organize words differently). Accordingly, ... -
An investigation of sin and evil in African cosmology
(Academic Journals, 2009-12-31)The research has found out that, in our world, the appalling depth and extent of human suffering is evident and very much experienced. Evil and suffering are not just philosophical and theological aspects of human existence ... -
Is Democrasy Possible? A Theoritical Perspective
(Research on humanities and Social Sciences, 2017)Democracy can be defined as a government in which sovereignty lies with the people either directly or via representatives. The transition from monarchy to representative democracy was long, gradual process. Nevertheless, ... -
Is Democrasy Possible? A Theoritical Perspective
(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017)Democracy can be defined as a government in which sovereignty lies with the people either directly or via representatives. The transition from monarchy to representative democracy was long, gradual process. Nevertheless, ... -
Is marital status a predictor of job satisfaction of public secondary school teachers?
(International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 2018)Job satisfaction is a globally important factor in determining human capital and subsequent worker productivity. In Kenya, human capital is a major concern as evidenced by teacher burnout and the strikes in the teaching ...