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Eze, Chika Eucharia; Nzangi, Alice; Obaweiki, Francis – Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation, 2020
This article presents the results of survey research on Kenyan professional school-based counsellor's perceptions of roles and appropriate activities. Data were collected from 47 Kenyan counsellors using the International Survey of School-Based Counselling Activities. Mean subscale scores and standard deviations were employed to analyse data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counselor Role, Role Perception, School Counselors
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Falzon, Ruth; Galea, Silvia; Muscat, Maud – Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation, 2020
This research identifies activities that Maltese School-based Counsellors (MSC) engage in and perceived as appropriate for their role. The article also compared Maltese school-based counselling with counselling in other countries. The results reflect both: (1) the influence of the American and British models of counselling; and (2) the unique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counselor Role, Counselor Attitudes, Cultural Context
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Munroe, Ruth H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984
A scale of gender understanding and a measure of sex-role preference were administered to three- to nine-year-old children from four traditional communities in Belize, Kenya, Nepal, and American Samoa. Overall, findings reflected the strong contribution of cognitive development to the growth of gender understanding. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits
Eddowes, Jeannette Rickner – 1988
Gerontocratic is a term that is applied to societies that are governed by older men. This document reports the findings of an ethnographic study that investigated the experience of aging women in a traditional gerontocratic society in Kenya. Tribal women's roles and status were the central themes examined in light of dominant characteristics of…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Aging (Individuals), Developing Nations, Ethnography
Abbott, Susan – 1974
The purpose of this study was to distinguish between cultural values and expectations regarding family structure and actual family structure as reflected in interviews concerning family decision making and control of resources in rural Kikuyu where the economy is such that 67 percent of the males must work in Nairobi (Kenya), visiting their homes…
Descriptors: African Culture, Child Care, Cultural Images, Decision Making