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Shakila Dada; Cathy Flores; Kirsty Bastable; Kerstin Tönsing; Alecia Samuels; Sourav Mukhopadhyay; Beatrice Isanda; Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe; Unati Stemela-Zali; Saira Banu Karim; Legini Moodley; Adele May; Refilwe Morwane; Katherine Smith; Rahab Mothapo; Mavis Mohuba; Maureen Casey; Zakiyya Laher; Nothando Mtungwa; Robyn Moore – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Over 8 million children with disabilities live in Africa and are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), yet formal training for team members, such as speech-language therapists and special education teachers, is extremely limited. Only one university on the continent provides postgraduate degrees in AAC, and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education
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Jonyo, Dorothy Owuor; Jonyo, Bonn Odera – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This is a conceptual paper which reviewed the role of secondary school heads in curriculum supervision and implementation in Kenya. The main objective is on the process of execution of the curriculum with a particular emphasis on the role of secondary heads in the supervision. The paper highlights the theory which curriculum is grounded and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Administrator Role, Principals
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Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh – Journal of Management Education, 2022
Drawing on three action research case studies involving several African universities, this article critically explores how academics converted their previously pure classroom-based courses for delivery through blended learning. The case studies reflect resource-scarce contexts where limited access to digital technology and the internet poses…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Blended Learning, Business Administration Education, Educational Change
Naheeda Karmali – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a gap in educational research regarding teachers' narratives of teaching in diverse classrooms, especially in East Africa. It is essential to investigate teachers' beliefs and perspectives because these are strong indicators of their planning, instructional decisions, and classroom practices and can also frame their perception of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Decision Making
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Mutinda, Gladys; Liu, Zhimin – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The internationalisation of higher education is a dynamic and specific process that is continuously shaped by the context in which it occurs. This article reports on a study that explored perceptions on the internationalisation concept and how it manifests in public universities in Kenya. The article harnesses a phenomenographic analysis approach…
Descriptors: International Education, State Universities, Higher Education, Phenomenology
Rachael Fitzpatrick; Donvan Amenya – Education Development Trust, 2023
Through a series of interviews and focus group discussions, we asked learners, out-of-school youth, community members, teachers and headteachers about the impacts of climate change on their lives. We found that the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on education are wide-ranging and complex, causing perceived learning loss and…
Descriptors: Climate, Foreign Countries, Influences, Learner Engagement
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Liisa Laakso; Kajsa Hallberg Adu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This paper analyses faculty experiences tackling global knowledge asymmetries by examining the decolonisation of higher education in Africa in the aftermath of the 2015 'Rhodes Must Fall' student uprising. An overview of the literature reveals a rich debate on defining 'decolonisation', starting from a critique of Eurocentrism to propositions of…
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, College Curriculum, Decolonization, Foreign Countries
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Lydiah Nganga; Samara Madrid Akpovo; John Kambutu; Sapna Thapa; Agnes Muthoni Mwangi – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Educational policies and practices in the current age of heightened globalization are increasingly grounded on unjust binary curriculum approaches that favor educational designs from Minority-World countries at the expense of epistemologies of indigenous people in Majority-World nations that are typically deemed culturally inferior (Gupta, 2015).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Indigenous Populations
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Mackatiani, Caleb Imbova; Likoko, Sarah Naliaka; Mackatiani, Navin – World Journal of Education, 2022
The school curriculum encapsulates what a progressive society, based on the pluralist values of liberal democracy, believes its future citizens should know and be able to do. In this respect, the curriculum should serve the immediate and long-term needs of all students. However, COVID-19 has uncovered the inequities that have existed in curriculum…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, School Closing
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Kulo, Selina; Odundo, Paul; Kibui, Agnes – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Reading has always been a challenging task especially for struggling learners of English as a second language (ESL). Readers' theatre has been used as a class instruction approach to enable learners to become innovative and active participants in the reading class. During class instruction, teachers use multiple strategies such as modeling reading…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Beckstead, Lori – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
This paper draws on the author's experience of developing a short-term, intensive international learning experience within the framework of a one-semester course. This paper is aimed at faculty members who are interested in implementing a short but effective and authentic international learning opportunity, but who may not have expertise in issues…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Learning Activities, Study Abroad, Teaching Experience
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Olkishoo, Reuben Sitonik; Gichuru, Francis Maina; Khayeka-Wandabwa, Christopher; Owaki, Methody Florian; Wamalwa, Stephen; Marinda, Pamela A.; Xu, Tianxi – Educational Process: International Journal, 2019
With Kenya having rolled out the Competence-Based Curriculum effective as from 2019, anchoring in it preschool education as an integral component, there is still a level of indistinctness as to the role of the preschool teacher in the core domains of curriculum development and reform. The perspective brings to light insights of preschool teacher…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
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Mulongo, Godfrey; Amod, Zaytoon – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2019
Utilizing the theory of change, this study analyzes the extent to which the participation in cross-national learning assessments by Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa has contributed to educational policy and curriculum reforms. Data collection involved in-depth interviews with key informants and summative content analysis of policy/strategic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Content Analysis, Educational Change
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Syomwene, Anne; Kindiki, Jonah Nyaga – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper is a discussion of the relationship between women education and sustainable economic development in Kenya and its implications for curriculum development and implementation processes. The argument advanced in this paper is that the solution to the development problems in Kenya and other developing nations lies on women education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Economic Development, Sustainable Development
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Heto, Prince Paa-Kwesi; Odari, Masumi H.; Sunu, Wyse Koku – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
Kenya's 2017 competency-based curriculum, the Basic Education Curriculum Framework (BECF), seeks to address the skills gap in the education system and make the curriculum relevant to learners. Using Soka education as the philosophical framework, we provide a comprehensive review of BECF. The analysis in this essay covers the noteworthy provisions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum, Competency Based Education, National Curriculum
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