The government of Kenya has placed certain measures to give basic education to its citizens by in... more The government of Kenya has placed certain measures to give basic education to its citizens by introducing Free Primary Education and Free Day Secondary Education. Despite this effort, students both boys and girls have been dropping out of school. School dropout for both boys and girls is a very serious issue not only in Kenya but also in the whole world. Studies have been carried out on the girl child and factors that contribute to them dropping out of school. Consequently, the boy child has been neglected. The boy child is consequently threatened and the boy child feels left out. The main purpose for the study was to investigate the factors that influence boy-child dropout from public secondary schools in Kinangop sub-county, Nyandarua County. The objectives of the study were to find out how socio-economic, socio-cultural and learner characteristics influence the drop out of the boy-child from public secondary schools in Kinangop sub-county of Nyandarua County. The study adopted d...
Despite vigorous efforts from the government and non-government sectors to ensure gender equality... more Despite vigorous efforts from the government and non-government sectors to ensure gender equality in education, there is still a serious gap between boys and girls in academic performance and achievement. There are very limited studies focused on the issues of gender difference in academic performance of students in Nyandarua County. This study sought to examine gender differences in the academic performance of students in Kinangop Sub County, Nyandarua County. The study adopted Social Cognitive Theory. The study adopted Ex post facto research design. Thirty-seven schools from Kinangop Sub county in Nyandarua County were selected using multi – stage stratified random sampling method to reflect the various categories of schools in the County. The Sub County has extra county, county and sub county schools. The schools were stratified based on their average Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) performance in years; 2015, 2016 and 2017. Two thousand four hundred and seventy s...
The continent of Africa is currently undergoing sociopolitical and economic crisis. Researches ha... more The continent of Africa is currently undergoing sociopolitical and economic crisis. Researches have shown that women and children are the most affected whenever problems arise. This book looks at the way proverbs on women, from the biblical book of Proverbs, have been applied to the lives of women. In some cases one approach has been used to interpret these proverbs; therefore the message passed to women is less effective, distorted, and sometimes meaningless to them. Therefore the question raised is “In what ways can women in the book of Proverbs be understood in order to bring an effective and relevant meaning to African women?” It reveals the nature and situation of women in ancient Israel and surrounding nations as it focuses on women in wisdom literature. Literal approach to proverbs about women addresses only a few women. Today, African women require a pragmatic message that is life giving, healing, liberative and reconstructive. The book has discussed the use of different app...
This book sets on the premise that there is a need for a new cultural hermeneutics that will move... more This book sets on the premise that there is a need for a new cultural hermeneutics that will move towards the deconstruction of the wrong attitudes against African women; that are experienced through some (African) proverbs. Certainly, a change of attitude is necessary in order to redeem Africa from the typecasts that do harm to the society. It is ironical that 'society' includes the African church. Change of attitude will help in upholding, creating positive proverbs and in dismantling the old ones, which are designed to distort a woman's image. It is recommended that African women scholars and theologians, together with "concerned" men should publish books that will put to public domain the "newly" reconstituted and/or redesigned proverbs and reach out to those who cannot read or write through seminars and in their respective places. In addition, it is urged that we should, make it a habit to severally quote the "new" proverbs in our speec...
The government of Kenya has placed certain measures to give basic education to its citizens by in... more The government of Kenya has placed certain measures to give basic education to its citizens by introducing Free Primary Education and Free Day Secondary Education. Despite this effort, students both boys and girls have been dropping out of school. School dropout for both boys and girls is a very serious issue not only in Kenya but also in the whole world. Studies have been carried out on the girl child and factors that contribute to them dropping out of school. Consequently, the boy child has been neglected. The boy child is consequently threatened and the boy child feels left out. The main purpose for the study was to investigate the factors that influence boy-child dropout from public secondary schools in Kinangop sub-county, Nyandarua County. The objectives of the study were to find out how socio-economic, socio-cultural and learner characteristics influence the drop out of the boy-child from public secondary schools in Kinangop sub-county of Nyandarua County. The study adopted d...
Despite vigorous efforts from the government and non-government sectors to ensure gender equality... more Despite vigorous efforts from the government and non-government sectors to ensure gender equality in education, there is still a serious gap between boys and girls in academic performance and achievement. There are very limited studies focused on the issues of gender difference in academic performance of students in Nyandarua County. This study sought to examine gender differences in the academic performance of students in Kinangop Sub County, Nyandarua County. The study adopted Social Cognitive Theory. The study adopted Ex post facto research design. Thirty-seven schools from Kinangop Sub county in Nyandarua County were selected using multi – stage stratified random sampling method to reflect the various categories of schools in the County. The Sub County has extra county, county and sub county schools. The schools were stratified based on their average Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) performance in years; 2015, 2016 and 2017. Two thousand four hundred and seventy s...
The continent of Africa is currently undergoing sociopolitical and economic crisis. Researches ha... more The continent of Africa is currently undergoing sociopolitical and economic crisis. Researches have shown that women and children are the most affected whenever problems arise. This book looks at the way proverbs on women, from the biblical book of Proverbs, have been applied to the lives of women. In some cases one approach has been used to interpret these proverbs; therefore the message passed to women is less effective, distorted, and sometimes meaningless to them. Therefore the question raised is “In what ways can women in the book of Proverbs be understood in order to bring an effective and relevant meaning to African women?” It reveals the nature and situation of women in ancient Israel and surrounding nations as it focuses on women in wisdom literature. Literal approach to proverbs about women addresses only a few women. Today, African women require a pragmatic message that is life giving, healing, liberative and reconstructive. The book has discussed the use of different app...
This book sets on the premise that there is a need for a new cultural hermeneutics that will move... more This book sets on the premise that there is a need for a new cultural hermeneutics that will move towards the deconstruction of the wrong attitudes against African women; that are experienced through some (African) proverbs. Certainly, a change of attitude is necessary in order to redeem Africa from the typecasts that do harm to the society. It is ironical that 'society' includes the African church. Change of attitude will help in upholding, creating positive proverbs and in dismantling the old ones, which are designed to distort a woman's image. It is recommended that African women scholars and theologians, together with "concerned" men should publish books that will put to public domain the "newly" reconstituted and/or redesigned proverbs and reach out to those who cannot read or write through seminars and in their respective places. In addition, it is urged that we should, make it a habit to severally quote the "new" proverbs in our speec...
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