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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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Otienoh, Ruth – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2015
This paper is a narrative of my personal experiences of conducting action research in Kenyan primary schools. It highlights the opportunities, successes, challenges and dilemmas I encountered during the process: from the school hunting period, to the carrying out of the actual research in two schools, with four teachers. This study reveals that…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Williams, Judy; Grierson, Arlene – Studying Teacher Education, 2016
This collaborative self-study details the experiences of an Australian teacher educator and a Canadian teacher educator, who led teacher candidates on international practicum placements to the Cook Islands and Kenya respectively. Focusing on critical incidents, they collaboratively analyzed dilemmas that occurred when providing professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Critical Incidents Method, Teacher Education, Practicums
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Milligan, Lizzi – Gender and Education, 2014
This paper reconsiders urban-rural and modern-traditional dichotomies by exploring the multiple and contested gendered issues that secondary school girls face in rural Kisii, Western Kenya. Findings are drawn from a qualitative case study and explore the ways that gendered norms interact with new ideas of gender equity in and out of the classroom.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Social Attitudes, Rural Areas
Mwebi, Bosire Monari – Canadian Journal of Education, 2012
This paper draws from a larger study conducted in Kenya, which was a narrative inquiry into a teacher's experiences of teaching the HIV/AIDS curriculum using a child-to-child approach. The two major research questions of this study were: 1) What are the experiences of a teacher teaching the HIV/AIDS curriculum using a child-to-child curriculum…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Student Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Foreign Countries
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Mareng, Chuei D. – Intercultural Education, 2010
This reflective study explores refugee students' perceptions of the educational approach used in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. The study focuses on my personal reflections as a teacher and a student in this camp, and as a refugee. My goal of writing this narrative is to reflect fully on the refugee students' life in a camp and then contribute to…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Refugees